[quote=spdrun]By my revised estimate: 2400 students on the trolleys coming from the southernmost station near the border.
“Thousands” crossing by car driven by their parents. Say 3000?
“A thousand” by car driven by students themselves.
We’re up to 6400 students, or 3.2% of entire student population. If it’s concentrated in certain districts, it doesn’t seem to be a county-wide issue, and the total number of students is relatively small compared to county population.[/quote]The cars driven by parents often have 3-4 students in each vehicle (not necessarily related but were driven into the US together). The “regular” cars/vans that used to park on my street for years (where the adult would get out, often carrying a baby or pushing a stroller) usually had 3-6 student-kids with her whom she walked thru the back gate of the elementary school every morning. Parents/relatives do not make their onerous trek into the US early in the morning without taking as many kids as possible with them. We had four “regular” vehicles every school year and sometimes six with Baja plates which would be parked in the same place every school morning to walk kids onto the school grounds and pick them up in the afternoon (total of 40-50 minutes of parking per day). This went on the entire time I lived there (12 years). High school kids also drive their relatives and neighbors over the border and to school (even if it is a different school, due to age of the passengers).
The relevant Districts that have the vast majority of these border crossing students enrolled are:
South Bay Union School District (K-6): 6000 (approx)
Chula Vista Elementary School District (K-6): 29,300
Sweetwater Union High School District (7-12): 42,000
National School District (K-6): 3000 (approx)
That’s a total of approximately 80,300 students. I would take an educated guess that over 90% of the border crossing students into SD County every morning attend public school in one of the above districts. The other 10% are spread out in public schools elsewhere in the county which are closer to a parent’s workplace.
I did not include CUSD (Coronado) because they are much stricter about granting interdistrict transfers and enrollment/residency issues over there. Therefore, I feel it is unlikely that more than a handful (if any) daily “border crossing students” were able to pass thru their “vetting system.”
