Albany City Schools, District, Middle School Enrollment

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Middle School Enrollment

Three additional elementary schools to keep sixth grade in 2009-10

Three additional City School District of Albany elementary schools will keep sixth grade next year as the district enters into the first year of its new middle school alignment.

Arbor Hill Elementary School, Eagle Point Elementary School and Pine Hills Elementary School each will have this year’s fifth-graders move up in 2009-10. They will join Albany School of Humanities (ASH) and Giffen Memorial Elementary School as elementary schools serving students from prekindergarten through sixth grade.

Students in fifth grade this year at the district’s other seven elementary schools will move on to middle school next year according to the feeder plan approved by the Board of Education in February (see below). Please contact your school directly if you have questions; you can find contact information by following the links on the Our Schools home page.

Board of Education adopts feeder enrollment model

for new middle school configuration in 2009-10

The Board of Education unanimously approved feeder groupings for middle school enrollment at its meeting Feb. 12, completing a months-long study of enrollment options as the City School District of Albany plans for a new middle school configuration in 2009-10.

The district will have two main middle schools beginning in 2009-10 because the middle-level program at Philip Livingston Magnet Academy will be discontinued due to declining enrollment. Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School and William S. Hackett Middle School each will enroll about 650 students through a system of feeder elementary schools. North Albany Academy, the district's only school serving students from prekindergarten through eighth grade, will continue to serve about 150 students in grades 6-8.

Students graduating from the following elementary schools will attend Myers Middle School:

Albany School of Humanities (ASH)
Giffen Memorial Elementary School
Montessori Magnet School
Pine Hills Elementary School
Schuyler Achievement Academy
Sheridan Preparatory Academy

Students graduating from these elementary schools will attend Hackett Middle School:

Arbor Hill Elementary School
Delaware Community School
Eagle Point Elementary School
New Scotland Elementary School
Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST)

Hackett and Myers also will have half-mile neighborhood enrollment zones, allowing students living within that distance to choose the closer school. Livingston also will have a half-mile neighborhood enrollment zone. Families within that zone will have the option of choosing either Hackett or Myers.

Additionally, Livingston students currently in grades 6-7 will be able to choose Hackett or Myers for 2009-10, providing space is available at the school they choose. Students with a sibling enrolled in Hackett, Myers or North Albany also will be able to choose that school.

Application forms for neighborhood and sibling preferences were due to the Central Registration Office on April 3.

The board's action followed four months of study by a 30-member committee of community and district volunteers. Visit our District News section for more information about the work of the Middle School Enrollment Planning Committee and the board's process on the enrollment decision.

North Albany Academy

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School

William S. Hackett Middle School