April 13th, 2016

Empire school staff work diligently considering many factors when creating next year’s classes. In completing this complex task we are bound by many rules including hard class caps in the primary division.  In order to create successful classes, we consider the following factors:

The academic level and learning style of each student;

The social/emotional needs of each student;

How the child’s leadership potential will have an opportunity to develop in the class.

While we attempt to place children with at least one of his/her current friends, we find that children are adaptable and will make friends wherever they are placed. Our guiding principle is to group children for instructional purposes. We aim to include positive role models as well as children with special learning needs in each class, while also striving for gender balance. We do our best to ensure that your child’s placement will best serve his/her learning needs.

This is not an opportunity to request a specific teacher for your child(ren). Since the staffing process occurs into June, with staff possibly choosing to transfer, we cannot guarantee that specific teachers will be here in September or that they will be teaching the same grade level as this year.

   Please trust that we will do the best job of placement we can, because it is important to us that every child has a good chance for success.