THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, February 12, 1996 TAG: 9602120137
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY ANNE SAITA, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BARCO LENGTH: Short : 45 lines
A public hearing on the proposed redistricting of Currituck County elementary schools will be held at 7 tonight at the Currituck County High School cafeteria.
Officials are trying to gather public input on a plan to realign student attendance areas when Knapp Junior High School is converted to an elementary school this fall.
The ``new'' school will help ease severe overcrowding at Moyock Elementary School in the northern end of the county. But it also will affect the mainland's other school populations.
Under the plan that school officials submitted last month, children living between the Virginia line and N.C. 168 at the Ferrell Mill bridge and the Old Tulls Creek-Tulls Creek intersection would attend Moyock Elementary.
Moyock's enrollment would drop from around 700 to 474 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The school's capacity is 598.
Children who would attend the new Knapp Elementary in Currituck include those living between Tulls Creek Road and Bells Island Road. Bells Island also would be included at Knapp, which is expected to hold 318 students next year.
Central Elementary School in Maple would pull children from south of Bells Island to U.S. 158 at Church's Island, which also is included in plans for Central's new student population. Enrollment at that school should be around 282 pupils under the proposal.
Students in neighborhoods and residences south of Church's Island would attend Griggs Elementary in Poplar Branch, where attendance is projected to be 465 after reorganization.
Knotts Island Elementary School would not be affected by the redistricting.
School officials have said boundary lines are subject to change and may be influenced by comments at tonight's meeting.
A final vote is expected in March.
The School Board's regular monthly meeting will immediately follow the redistricting session. by CNB