Student Transfer Requests Coming to Rockwood

With less than a week left before an August 1 deadline for parents in the unaccredited Normandy and Riverview Gardens School Districts to file transfer requests, we have a better idea now of how those students could impact the Rockwood School Districts.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained data that, as of this past Wednesday, shows Rockwood has received only a handful of requests form the two troubled school districts. 

Rockwood has received a total of 8 requests, six from Riverview Gardens and two from Normandy. The district has already laid out a plan for how the transfers might work. 

However, the dynamic has the potential to shift again, especially with the number of Riverview Gardens transfers. Administrators there selected Mehlville schools as the preferred district to provide free transportation for transfers. But because Mehlville will only be able to accept at most 200 Riverview Gardens students before butting up to class size projections, Riverview Gardens will need to select a second preferred district for transportation.

It is up to the receiving school districts to decide which building a transfer student would be placed. Those students would be eligible to participate in extra-curricular activities, including Missouri State High School Activities Association-sanctioned sports.