Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools shuffled its lineup of high-poverty schools earmarked for extra help on Friday, but at a time of heavy budget cutting, those schools might well receive less additional aid than in years past.

CMS officials said in the weekly school board update memo that they are designating 74 schools as FOCUS schools for 2011-12, two fewer than this year.

Eight of the nine schools being removed from the list are slated for closure due to budget cuts.

FOCUS schools are high-poverty schools CMS offers extra discretionary dollars for supplies. The schools also benefit from CMS' weighted-student staffing policy that provides additional teachers to help low-income students. Virtually all schools get some money, since it follows low-income students, but high-poverty schools get more, said chief operating officer Hugh Hattabaugh.

CMS officials didn't specify in the memo how the system's scramble to cut $100 million from its budget will affect its ability to steer extra resources to those schools.

Officials are planning to cut 134 teachers and nearly $8 million by changing the staffing formula, but they say they hope to put the money back if the budget picture improves, Hattabaugh said.

Coming off the FOCUS list: Barringer, Irwin Avenue, Lincoln Heights and Pawtuckett elementary schools, John Taylor Williams, Spaugh and Wilson middles, and Waddell and Midwood high schools. All except Barringer are closing in June.

Going on the list: First Ward, Greenway Park, Steele Creek, Stoney Creek and Winding Springs elementary schools, Northeast Middle and the Military and Global Leadership Academy at Marie G. Davis.