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At its Study
Session/Board Meeting on January 25, 2010, the
Tustin Unified School District Board of Education
approved staff recommendations for the grade
levels/boundaries for the 2010-11 opening of Orchard
Hills School. Ultimately, the school will serve
grades K-8, however, until the Orchard Hills
Development homes are built and occupied, the school
will serve upper elementary and middle school
grades. |
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Orchard Hills School
will open for the 2010-11 school year with grades
five and six. |
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Sixth Grade: |
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Change middle school boundaries to reflect the Hicks
Canyon Elementary School attendance area (Northpark/Northpark
Square) feeding into Orchard Hills School beginning
with the sixth-grade class of 2010-11. |
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Change middle school boundaries to reflect the
Myford Elementary School attendance area north of
Champion Way (West Irvine) feeding into Orchard
Hills School beginning with the sixth-grade class of
2010-11. |
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Fifth Grade: |
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Change elementary school
boundaries to reflect fifth graders from the Hicks
Canyon Elementary School attendance area attending
Orchard Hills School beginning with the 2010-11
school year. |
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Change elementary school
boundaries to reflect fifth graders from the Myford
Elementary School attendance area north of Champion
Way to attend Orchard Hills School beginning with
the 2010-11 school year. |
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Orchard Hills School
will add a seventh-grade class in 2011-12 and an
eighth-grade class in 2012-13. |
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On a space-available
basis (intradistrict transfer): |
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Fifth and sixth graders
from Myford Elementary School attendance area south
of Champion Way may attend Orchard Hills School
(first priority). |
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Fifth and sixth graders
from other Pioneer Middle School feeder school areas
(Ladera, Peters Canyon, and Tustin Ranch elementary
schools) may attend Orchard Hills School (second
priority). |
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Once a transfer student
is accepted at Orchard Hills School, the student may
attend Orchard Hills School through the eighth
grade. |
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The
parent of a fifth grader enrolling in the sixth
grade the following fall may choose to have that
child attend Pioneer Middle School if either: |
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that
child has a sibling already enrolled at Pioneer
Middle School who will remain concurrently enrolled
the next fall at Pioneer Middle School with the new
sixth grader; |
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or |
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that
child has a sibling enrolling in a middle school
grade not offered at Orchard Hills School who would
be enrolling the next fall at Pioneer Middle School
with the new sixth grader. |
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On a
space-available basis, Myford Elementary School
fifth-grade students who live north of Champion Way
will have first priority to stay at Myford
Elementary School for fifth grade. |