Parkside Discussion: Valley View Enrollment and Capacity
Parkside Discussion:
Valley View Enrollment and Capacity
This document is intended to answer questions that have arisen as we have begun a conversation about repurposing Parkside Elementary to an Early Childhood Center.
Valley View Elementary and Capacity:
- If we move the students from Parkside to Valley View, what would the enrollment be at Valley View?
Current Valley View enrollment (February 2025): 340
- This includes 34 developmental kindergarten students
- This includes 45 5th grade students
Projected total 2025-2026 Valley View enrollment: 321
- Projected 1st – 5th 2025-2026 enrollment at Valley View: 261
- Additional kindergarten enrollment: 60
Current Parkside enrollment (February 2025): 179
- Includes 20 ASD students
- Includes 32 out-of-district school of choice students
- Includes 12 in-district school of choice students
Projected total 2025-2026 Parkside enrollment moving to Valley View: 138
- Subtract from 179 the ASD students moving to Meadow Ridge
- Subtract the 27 5th graders moving to middle school
Projected enrollment of combined Valley View and Parkside: 459
- Would a combined Valley View and Parkside exceed capacity?
- No. Based on the current (February ’25) enrollment for each building and rolling those up to next year, here is the current projected enrollment and preliminary enrollment for Valley View for the 2025-2026 school year:
Parkside ’25-26 | Valley View ’25-26 | Combined ’25-26 | |
Kindergarten | ? | ? | ? |
1st | 21 (1 – 21) | 52 (2 – 26) | 73 (18, 18, 18, 19) |
2nd | 25 (1 – 25) | 45 (2 – 23) | 70 (23, 23, 24) |
3rd | 28 (1 – 28) | 55 (2 – 27) | 83 (20, 21, 21, 21) |
4th | 38 (2 – 19,19) | 67 (3 – 22) | 105 (26, 26, 26, 27) |
5th | 26 (1 – 26) | 42 (2 – 21) | 68 (22, 23, 23) |
Total | 139 (no K yet) | 261 (No DK, K yet) | *399 (No K, DK yet) |
*60 kindergarten to add
With these projections, that would use 18 classrooms. Assuming 3 kindergarten classrooms would put the total to 21.
Valley View has 27 classrooms. 3 classrooms are currently used for specials - music, STEAM, and art. With these projects the specials classrooms would still serve as specials classrooms.
With the K-5 classrooms at 21 and the specials classrooms at 3, that would leave 3 classrooms for growth.
It is important to note that these are projections based on current enrollment data. It is also important to note that Parkside currently has 32 out-of-district school of choice students. The numbers above reflect that all of those students would move to Valley View.
