There was not an new opening of a Magnet school. NE Magnet, which has existed for years, was moved to a multi-million dollar building originally built (2 miles East of Heights) to be another comprehensive high school. After the school was built, and a new budget for schools came out, it was discovered that USD 259 could not afford to fully staff, buy technology, desks, supplies, etc and therefore NE Magnet was moved and is using 1/2 of this building.

In doing so, NE Magnet also did decide to take more kids along with USD 259 re-drew the district boundaries and sent a huge portion of our Hispanic population to Wichita North. We do not offer an ESOL program at Heights either, so they naturally would go to North who does.

In summary, NE Magnet is taking more kids and the District moved a lot of our kids to Wichita North.

In a hurry so I hope this makes sense...

Also pay attention to this for the Future:

Maize High will be 5A in Football only and Wichita West will be 6A Football only next year. So when a new count is done next year, you could see that change as well.

Coach Church

Last edited by FalconCoach; 09/27/13 08:30 AM.