RALEIGH — Wake County school administrators are abandoning plans to use the new Alston Ridge Elementary School as a sixth-grade center for West Cary Middle School.

Last month, administrators said they were thinking of delaying the 2009 opening of Alston Ridge so that it could hold West Cary’s sixth-graders for one year. But administrators said Tuesday that delays completing construction of Alston Ridge means the campus won’t be ready until the 2010-11 school year.

Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, said the plan now is just to open Alston Ridge for the 2010-11 school year as an elementary school. He said they’ll look at alternatives for easing crowding at West Cary Middle School.

Alston Ridge’s opening will make it possible for nearby Green Hope Elementary School to convert back from a year-round calendar to a traditional one in 2010.

Dulaney said he’s still moving forward with plans to delay the 2009 opening of Herbert Akins Road Elementary in Fuquay-Varina to serve as the sixth-grade center for Holly Ridge and Fuquay-Varina middle schools.

Herbert Akins would become an elementary school in 2010.

These ideas will be incorporated in the draft multi-year student reassignment plan that will be released in early November.