California Department of Education
Executive Office
SBE-002 (REV. 06/2008) / memo-sssb-sfpd-dec10item01
State of California / Department of Education
memorandum
Date: / November 16, 2010
TO: / Members, STATE BOARD of EDucation
FROM: / Dr. William Ellerbee, Jr., Deputy Superintendent
Special Services and Support Branch
SUBJECT: / Substantial Progress Report Regarding the Elimination of the Multitrack Year-Round Education Concept 6 Calendar by Los Angeles Unified School District Pursuant to California Education Code Section 37685, Chapter 901, Statutes of 2004 (Assembly Bill 1550).

Concept 6 is a multitrack year-round calendar that divides a school’s student population into three tracks of which two tracks attend the school at one time. The Concept 6 calendar provides districts the maximum number of students that can attend any school, but limits the number of instructional days to 163 instead of the required 180 (California Education Code (EC) Section 37670). The lost days of instruction are made up by adding additional minutes to each school day.

EC Section 37685, which was added pursuant to the Eliezer Williams, et al. vs. State of California, et al. settlement, prohibits the use of Concept 6 calendars after July 1, 2012, and requires any district that is operating a school on a Concept 6 multitrack year-round calendar to submit evidence of progress toward eliminating Concept 6 each July 1 to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI). A district’s annual goals are set in its comprehensive action plan (CAP).

The State Board of Education (SBE) approved the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) CAP on July6,2005. LAUSD is the only district with remaining Concept 6 schools.

As of July 1, 2010, the District has made substantial progress in the elimination of the use of Concept 6 as established in the District’s CAP. The LAUSD’s 2009–10 goal was to have 118,181 resident enrollees attending a total of 48 Concept 6 school. As of July1, 2010, the LAUSD has a resident enrollment (as defined on page 1 of Attachment 1) of 64,817 (Attachment 1) attending a total of 28 Concept 6 schools. This exceeds the resident enrollment goal by 53,364.

Attachment 1: List of 2009–10 Concept 6 Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School

District (1 page)

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Attachment 1

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List of 2009–10 Concept 6 Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District

Below is a list of 2009–10 Concept 6 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, showing resident enrollment and actual enrollment as certified in the 2009–10 California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS). Resident enrollment is the number of pupils who live in a school’s attendance area and attend that school, participate in a transportation program (other than magnet), or participate in the open enrollment program. In this case, students attending a school on a permit are counted in their neighborhood school, but not magnet students who chose to attend a magnet school instead of their local neighborhood school. The resident enrollment was the number that was submitted on the District’s comprehensive action plan and is used here, as provided by the district, to maintain consistency with the original report.

School / 2009–10 Resident Enrollment / 2009–10 CALPADS
Aurora Elementary / 670 / 636
Bell Senior High / 4,412 / 4,301
Berendo Middle / 2,048 / 1,854
Bryson Avenue Elementary / 979 / 1,069
Carver Middle / 1,987 / 1,791
Drew Middle / 2,257 / 1,938
Edison Middle / 1,637 / 1,613
Elizabeth Learning Center / 2,458 / 2,117
Foshay Learning Center / 2,917 / 2,837
Fremont Senior High / 4,926 / 4,470
Gage Middle / 2,642 / 2,578
Garfield Senior High / 4,301 / 4,271
Gratts Elementary / 884 / 806
Gridley Elementary / 998 / 918
Hughes Elementary / 922 / 1,028
Huntington Park Senior High / 4,324 / 4,185
Kindergarten Learning Academy / 160 / 154
Los Angeles Academy Middle / 2,134 / 2,149
Los Angeles Senior High / 3,291 / 2,855
Manual Arts Senior High / 3,606 / 3,499
Marshall Senior High / 3,037 / 3,479
Nimitz Middle / 2,712 / 2,783
Pio Pico / 1,544 / 1,340
Polytechnic Senior High / 3,281 / 3,139
San Gabriel Elementary / 773 / 784
Santee Education Complex (South Los Angeles High School #1) / 3,038 / 2,857
Van Nuys Elementary / 661 / 601
Virgil Middle / 2,218 / 1,681
Totals / 64,817 / 61,733

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