More Foster City elementary school students will likely be able to attend the successful Brewer Island Elementary School next fall because the school district is planning to change the enrollment rules.
A new map is expected to be shown Thursday night at the San Mateo-Foster City School Board meeting outlining new boundaries. About 300 students will be enrolled from a new boundary surrounding the school. Another 200 students will come from an area that includes a portion of the boundaries of Foster City Elementary and Audubon Elementary schools.
Remaining spaces will be chosen by lottery.
Brewer Island is a magnet school that specializes in music and the arts. Magnet schools are open to all students in the district by an application process, but Brewer used its own enrollment model.
The model reserved 30 percent of its seats for the surrounding neighborhood and the remainder for other students in the district. Foster City parents were upset because their children could not attend a school in their neighborhood while students outside of the area could.
Susan Silver, associate superintendent of San Mateo-Foster City School District, said this week the new plan would accommodate the requests of Foster City parents with only minor changes.
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She said no current Brewer students would be displaced, and that the school would begin using a vacant classroom. The school had 497 students in October.
The district will not vote on the plan Thursday night, but Charles Perry, vice president of the district board, said he will support it when it arises.
"The kids in Foster City and Audubon would now have availability to Brewer Island," Perry said. Parents also support it, he said.
Silver said an enrollment calendar for parents would be available in January on the district's Web site, www.smfc.k12.ca.us.
The San Mateo-Foster City School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at 42 W. 42nd Ave. in San Mateo.
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