Cary town leaders met with Wake County School Board members Wednesday to talk about reassignment concerns for Cary kids.

A breakdown shows the students are among the 25,000 who will be impacted by the reassignment plan over the next three years.

One hundred and four Apex High School students from Cary would be reassigned, while 119 Panther Creek High students would stay at that overcrowded school for a year --instead of moving to Cary High School sooner.

Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht and two town council members were meeting privately Wednesday evening with a pair of Wake County School Board members.

"Hopefully we'll be able to throw some ideas out there, and understand their logic," said Weinbrecht.

Initially, school board member Eleanor Goettee agreed to meet the Cary folks to talk about some specific plans that would affect the dozens of Cary families at Apex High.

"It's not a crowding issue, and it doesn't appear to be solving any economic diversity issue," said Weinbrecht. "So we're really trying to understand why are you doing this."

Eventually, they expanded the discussion to include a few more of the planned reassignments affecting Cary and Panther Creek.

The meeting also grew a little, to include school board member Ron Margiotta and town council members Gale Adcock and Don Frantz.

"I would hope that elected officials from other municipalities would be doing the same and representing their constituency as well," said Frantz.

The town leaders said they were optimistic, but don't want people to think the meeting will solve all the issues.

"One thing to keep in mind is we are not the decision-makers; we're the lobbyists," said Weinbrecht. "And I don't want to give people false hope."

Goettee did not return interview requests, but called after the meeting to say she was very glad to have heard the concerns from Cary's officials.

The meeting wrapped up after about an hour, and Mayor Weinbrecht said it went well.

The next public hearing on the reassignment plan will be Thursday night at Southeast Raleigh High School.

The board hopes to vote on the plan next month.