OneApp Geographic Zones Presentation to OPSB

June 9, 2016

Agenda

• Updating the Geographic Zones

• Geographic Zones: Overview & Purpose

• The Current Geographic Zones

• Proposed Geographic Zones

• Feedback to date

• Conclusion

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Updating the Geographic Zones

OPSB and RSD committed to revising the geographic

zones for the 2017-18 OneApp process, which begins

in November 2016.

• RSD and OPSB presented the proposed zones at the

BESE Committee of the Whole meeting in May.

• RSD and OPSB invited feedback on-line by posting the

zone proposal on opsb.us and enrollnola.org

Today, we are bringing this zone proposal to the

Orleans Parish School Board for consideration. The

administration recommendation is to approve.

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The Current Geographic Zones

The RSD used the existing

13 master planning districts

as the basis for the 6

geographic zones and sought

to create zones that had

comparable student / seat

ratios. The zones were

created in 2011 and have not

yet been updated.

Zone Planning Districts Students Seats Students Per Seat

1 Downtown/Ninth Ward 3,958 3,551 1.1

2 Central City/Garden District 2,828 5,769 0.49

3 Uptown/Carrollton 2,835 4,877 0.58

4 Mid-City/Lakeview 5,497 7,260 0.76

5 New Orleans East/Gentilly 11,944 7,618 1.57

6 Westbank 5,849 5,030 1.16

Note: Student, seat, and

school counts exclude high

schools and selective-

enrollment programs.

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The Current Geographic Zones

Application

Year

% Applications

w/ #1 Choice

Outside Zone

% Applications w/

1 or More Choices

Outside Zone

%

Applications

with All

Choices

Outside Zone

% Placements

In Zone (When

3+ Choices In

Zone)

2015-2016 52% 75% 62% 93%

2016-2017 56% 78% 65% 91%

• Family preference data indicates that many applicants consider

attending a school outside of their zone: 78% of applicants preference

at least one out-of-zone school and 65% of all choices are outside-

of-zone.

• The system is able to provide in-zone assignments to families who

demonstrate a strong preference for attending school closer to home:

Over 90% of families who strongly preference in-zones schools

receive a placement in-zone

• These data points have remained consistent over time:

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Geographic Zone Proposal

To help guide this work, OPSB and RSD convened

community and school partners:

• Arise Schools • Bricolage Academy • EdNavigator • Greater New Orleans Collaborative of

Charter Schools • Einstein Academy • Encore Academy • Firstline Schools • Homer Plessy Community School • Hynes Charter School • InspireNOLA • KIPP New Orleans • Louisiana Association of Public

Charter Schools

• Mary D. Coghill Charter School • Morris Jeff Community Schools • New Orleans College Prep • New Orleans Parents’ Guide to Public

Schools • New Schools for New Orleans • Nuestra Voz • Orleans Parent Education Network • Plessy Community School • ReNEW Schools • Urban League of Greater New Orleans • Vietnamese Initiative in Economic Training • Warren Easton Charter School

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Geographic Zone Proposal

As a first step in the development of new geographic zones,

RSD, OPSB and community and school partners identified

the following set of values:

1. Zones should be easily identifiable and understandable • Having a single set of geographic zones for all schools, rather than

school- or student-specific zones, is straightforward for families.

• Currently, it is not intuitive to know within which zone a person

resides. Moving forward, zones should align with zip codes.

2. Zones should contain a variety of school types & models,

including high performing schools

3. Zones should be demographically integrated • It is important that our zones reflect the socio-economic and racial

diversity of our city

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Note: Red lines denote current zone boundaries.

Geographic Zone Proposal

Zone Zip Codes

1 70116, 70117

2 70112, 70119

3 70113, 70130

4 70115, 70118, 70125

5 70122, 70124, 70148, 70126 (West)

6 70126 (East), 70127, 70128, 70129

7 70114, 70131

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Geographic Zone Proposal: Alignment with Values

• Zip code boundaries are easily understandable

• All zones have a variety of school options. Most zones have

at least one A or B rated school located within it.

Note: Student, seat, and school counts exclude high schools and selective-enrollment programs.

Zone Zip Codes Students Per Seat

Schools (#)

A-rated Schools (#)

B-rated Schools (#)

1 70116, 70117 0.9 9 0 1

2 70112, 70119 0.6 10 0 1

3 70113, 70130 0.3 8 2 2

4 70115, 70118, 70125 0.7 17 2 6

5 70122, 70124, 70148, 70126 (W) 1.1 11 1 2

6 70126 (E), 70127, 70128, 70129 2.1 8 0 0

7 70114, 70131 1.2 8 2 0

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Geographic Zone Proposal: Alignment with Values

• The zones are relatively demographically balanced.

Zone Residents in HH Earning Less than $35K

Residents in HH Earning $35-50K

Residents in HH Earning $50-75K

Residents in HH Earning > $75K

White Black Other

1 63% 12% 11% 14% 28% 68% 5%

2 56% 12% 13% 19% 34% 59% 8%

3 52% 14% 10% 24% 48% 44% 8%

4 41% 13% 13% 33% 55% 39% 6%

5 37% 15% 17% 31% 41% 54% 6%

6 48% 15% 16% 21% 5% 84% 11%

7 42% 13% 15% 30% 29% 64% 7%

Zone Zone

1 70116, 70117 5 70122, 70124, 70148, 70126 (West)

2 70112, 70119 6 70126 (East), 70127, 70128, 70129

3 70113, 70130 7 70114, 70131

4 70115, 70118, 70125

Proposed Geographic Zones: New Orleans East

Currently, Zone 5 encompasses New Orleans East & Gentilly. This was done

to give families in New Orleans East priority to more schools than just those

in New Orleans East. In response to feedback that this zone is too large, the

proposed zones use the industrial canal as the westernmost border of the

New Orleans East zone(s). In making this decision, we must consider the

following:

• There are currently no A or B rated schools in the proposed zone

• Families will only receive priority to the schools located within their zone. This

means that families residing in New Orleans East will no longer receive priority

to schools located in Gentilly

• The proposed zone serving New Orleans East are less racially integrated than

the other zones

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Important considerations for New Orleans East

Proposed Geographic Zones: New Orleans East con’t

Why didn’t we consider making New Orleans East 2 smaller

zones? New Orleans East is comprised of 4 zip codes: 70126,

70127, 70128, and 70129.

• 70129 and 70128 are each served by a single school operator

and therefore lack variety in educational options

• Collectively, 70126 (east of the canal), 70127 and 70128 are

very dense and there is an insufficient number of seats to serve

the population. The ratio of students per seats in these zip

codes is 2.8, meaning that there are nearly three times as

many students residing in these zip codes as there are school

seats.

In the future, once schools grow to serve their full grade spans

and the School Facilities Master Plan is completed, it may make

sense to create a second zone in New Orleans East. 12

Feedback to Date

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RSD & OPSB presented the zone proposal at the

May BESE Committee of the Whole meeting and

shared the proposal on-line at opsb.us and

enrollnola.org:

• 100% of survey respondents agree that the stated

values are important to them.

• 75% of survey respondents agree that the

proposed zones align with the stated values.

• 90% of survey respondents agree that the

proposed zones should be adopted.

• Survey respondents come from 11 zip codes.

Note: This includes feedback received through 12pm on Wednesday, June 8, 2016. This information will be updated on

June 9, 2016 to include additional feedback received.

Conclusion

The administration recommendation is to approve this

geographic zone proposal, to be implemented in the

2017-18 OneApp process.

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