BURNHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (HAVERHILL, MA) 2003-04

2003-04 BURNHAM SCHOOL PROFILE

Student Enrollment:       143

Kindergarten:                  40

First Grade:                      54

Second Grade:                 49

White students (%):                     37.8

African American students (%): 4.2%%

Hispanic students (%):                 55.9%

Asian students (%):                      2.1%

MINORITY  ENROLLMENT            62.2%

First Language Not English # :                   51%

Limited English Proficient # :                     38.5%

Low-Income # :                                            58.7%

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL LAW CHAPTER 71

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Section 37D Racial imbalance; definitions; statistics; transfers; priorities; plans for elimination; public hearings; regulations; jurisdiction; costs; attorney’s fees

Section 37D. As used in this section, sections thirty-seven C, I, and J, sections one I through one K of chapter fifteen, and section twelve A of chapter seventy-six, the following terms shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:

“Racial imbalance”, the condition of a public school in which more than fifty percent of the pupils attending such school are non-white.

Any non-white pupil attending any public school in which racial imbalance exists shall have the right to be transferred to and to attend any other school, except an exempt school, of his parents’ or guardian’s choice for his grade level and under the jurisdiction of the same school committee or regional district school committee if racial isolation exists in such other school; and any white pupil attending any public school in which racial isolation exists shall have the right to be transferred to and to attend any other school, except an exempt school, of his parents’ or guardian’s choice for his grade level and under the jurisdiction of the same school committee or regional district school committee if racial imbalance exists in such other school.