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District Response on Sunset Elementary School Items:
Attached is the municipal chart of schools for the City of Coral Gables. In addition, the itemized responses below address the issue regarding Sunset Elementary School, proffered by the Central Region administration.
Response for Sunset Elementary School
1. Technically, there is not a limit on boundary students attending the non-magnet program at Sunset. However, at some point, empty seats are filled, and the school may be over capacity in some grades.
2. No one from the school or Region Office has been approached by the District to make this a full district-wide non-boundary magnet school.
3. There has been no reduction in number of students accepted. The difference is that the language program now begins in Kindergarten so there are less non-magnet seats occupied than before in first grade. The school used to have 4-5 KG non-magnet classes, and the balance of the first grade students (approximately 200 in total) were new applicants. Now (this is the second year) students apply to the magnet program in KG. The school currently has 9 KG classrooms with 205 students.
4. Students in the non-magnet program attend the “home school” if they live within the boundary. They may also participate in the gifted program even if they are not in the magnet program.
NOTE: All students that enter in KG are placed in the magnet program in their choice of Spanish, French or German. They are all magnet students. This year, 1st grade students are also all magnet students because attended the school last year.
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