CARY - Few changes were made Monday to Wake County's student reassignment plan, meaning more than 6,400 students are still scheduled to move to different schools this fall.

Wake school board members informally agreed to trim the number of reassigned students from Creech Road, Davis Drive, Durant Road, Oak Grove and Smith elementary schools. As a result, 370 students won't be moved, school officials said.

Parents won few concessions at the second of two work sessions Monday. The proposed changes in the plan affect 5 percent of the reassignments originally recommended by school administrators. Most of the changes the board agreed to make were based on new staff recommendations.

"We said we'd make changes that made the plan more efficient," said Rosa Gill, chairwoman of the school board.

None of changes announced Monday are final, but they stand a good chance of being adopted when the formal vote takes place Feb. 5.

The plan that administrators released last month called for moving 6,824 elementary students. School officials have said the reassignments are needed to fill new schools, deal with crowding and make sure schools in the same area have roughly the same percentage of students from low-income families.

The plan generated thousands of e-mail messages, phone calls and speakers at public hearings.

Gill pointed out that the changes made Monday were based on public comments. But the changes fell short of what many groups had requested.

For instance, the school board agreed to leave in place moves designed to reduce the number of students assigned to five magnet elementary schools -- Brooks, Combs, Douglas, Farmington Woods and Powell. The goal is to free more spots for students to apply for in next month's magnet application lottery.

Two types of students attend magnet schools: those who apply through the lottery and get in; and those who go because they live in the school's attendance area. The schools targeted have low percentages of magnet application students.

"They shouldn't be getting magnet money if they can't take many magnet students," said school board member Lori Millberg.

The board's decision left parents at Brooks trying to figure out their options.

"I'm disappointed that this is the way the vote seems to be going," said Anne Scott, who has two children who could be moved out of Brooks.

Parents at Davis Drive and Oak Grove elementary schools had only partial success in getting the plan changed.

The board agreed to reassign 172 students from Davis Drive instead of 299. That doesn't help James Hirtz, whose youngest child still expects to be reassigned to the new Laurel Park Elementary School.

"We'll try to work with [Laurel Park] as best we can to get the school as capable as Davis Drive," said Hirtz, who is also considering private school.

The board also agreed to move 85 Oak Grove students to Adams instead of the 118 in the original plan.