The Proposal

On October 3, 2011 the District's School Alignment Committee presented the following recommendations to the Point Loma Cluster Schools Foundation.

1. Close Cabrillo Elementary effective July 2012.
2. Close Barnard campus but keep the Mandarin Magnet K-6 program by relocating it to the Dana campus effective September 2012.  Expand the magnet focus from Mandarin Chinese to a Pacific Rim Language Immersion K-8 program.
3. Close Dana Middle School Grade 5 effective July 2012.
4. Convert Dewey, Loma Portal, Ocean Beach, Silver Gate, Sunset View from K-4 to K-5 schools effective September 2012.
5. Dana’s current fifth graders will return to Dana for sixth grade in September 2012. The sixth grade program will share the Dana campus with the Pacific Rim Language Immersion K-8 program for the 2012-13 school year.
6. Completely close Dana Middle School effective July 2013.
7. Correia’s grade level configuration remains the same for 2012-13, but will convert to a 6-8 middle school in 2013-14.  Correia will serve as the only middle school in Point Loma.
8. Point Loma High School is not impacted by the draft recommendations.

The District is seeking community input and wants on the above recommendations. The Point Loma Cluster Schools Foundation is working to schedule a community meeting in October with District staff and our school board representative Scott Barnett for stakeholders to ask questions and offer input/feedback to District.