Wallingford is fortunate to have some excellent public elementary schools, although they are unfortunately fractured in their attendance areas. Just last year the decision was made to make both John Stanford and McDonald school “option schools”, meaning nobody in Wallingford is guaranteed entrance. There’s a complicated lottery system that assigns a certain number of slots to students in the walk zone and then to other buckets as well, so nobody is guaranteed a slot.
The primary reason Sherry Carr (our school board representative) gave for Wallingford having two option schools and no neighborhood schools in the neighborhood is that JSIS …
