Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, February 18, 1992 TAG: 9202180146
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
BOARD TO VOTE ON NEW ELEMENTARY ATTENDANCE ZONES
The Montgomery County School Board is scheduled to vote tonight on the attendance zones for the new Falling Branch Elementary School in Christiansburg.If the board approves the zones tonight, letters will be mailed to parents on Wednesday telling them which of the Christiansburg schools their children will attend next year.
The board also will hear a report on the new Even Start program, which is getting under way in the Shawsville-Elliston area. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at the board office on Junkin Street.
Even Start, which will work with roughly 70 children, is funded by a federal grant of almost $100,000. It is a voluntary program aimed at undereducated adults who have children of preschool age.
Parents in the program must agree to work on their own education as well as learn how to help their own children with their schooling and to be role models for them.
The Even Start program will work either through a mobile classroom, which will serve roughly 40 families, or through two outreach workers, who will work with about 30 families.
Currently 35 children from 30 families have signed up for the program. The mobile classroom will take to the road by the end of February.
As for the attendance rezoning, the Falling Branch school was built to relieve overcrowding at the Christiansburg Primary and Christiansburg Elementary schools. For that reason, the committee has recommended that no parents be allowed to transfer their children to a school outside of their attendance zone.
Following are the streets in the proposed Falling Branch attendance area:
Akers Street, Alma Street, Arrowhead Trail, Archer Road, Ash Drive, Aspen Street, Azalea Trail, Baldwin Lane, Bell Road, Birch Road, Blake Drive, Bow Hill Road, Brammer Lane, Briarwood Drive, Bristol Drive.
Also, Canterbury Street, Carter Drive, Cedar Street, Charles Street, Cherokee Drive, Chestnut Drive, Chinquapin Trail, Christie Lane, Colonial Drive, Countrie Drive, Craigs Mountain Road, Crestview Street, Cumberland Drive, Curtis Drive, Dee Dee Street, Dogwood Lane, Dunlap Drive.
Also, Edgewood Drive, Electric Way, Elliott Creek Road-Craigs Mountain Road, Evergreen Street, Fairview Street (Conners Trailer Park, Fairview Trailer Park, Haynes Trailer Park), Falling Branch Road, Fisher Street, Flagg Court, Flint Drive, Franklin Park Court.
Also, Geneva Street, Giles Drive, Glade Drive, Glenn Court, Glouchester Street, Gum Drive, Hammes Street, Harmony Road, Hasting Road, Hazelnut Road, Hemlock Street, Holly Drive, Houchins Road, Howery Street, Hubbell Drive, Hungate Road, Hunters Path.
Also, Imperial Street, Industrial Drive, Jones Street, Kelsey Lane, Kimball Lane, Kirby Lane, Lomoor Street, Lucky Lane, Lyle Lane, Madison Street, Maple Drive, Maxwell Lane, McDaniel Drive, Moore Street, Mount Pleasant Road, Mulberry Drive.
Also, Old Farm Village Road, Overhill Road, Overland Drive, Patricia Lane, Pilot Road, Pine Hollow Road, Pine Street, Poplar Lane, Proclamation Lane, Prospect Drive, Rainbow Street, Reading Road, Ridge Road, Ridgewood Road, Roanoke Street (1000 up, Interstate Trailer Park), Roger Street, Rogers Drive, Rosehill Drive, Rosemary Road.
Also, Scott Street (Dogwood Trailer Park), Simmons Road, Simpson Road, Skyline Street, South Franklin Street (700 up, James Trailer Park), Southview Terrace, Spruce Street, Starlight Court, Starlight Drive (Lyon's Trailer Park and Sue's Trailer Park), Sugar Grove Road, Summit Ridge Road, Sunrise Street.
Also, Tanglewood Drive, Teel Street, Thorn Drive, Tomahawk Drive, Tower Road, Townhouse Drive, Turpin Walk, Village Lane, Warrior Drive, White Oak Lane, White Pine Drive, and Willow Drive.