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2011 – 2012 High School Attendance Area Committee. 2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee. Purpose: Balance enrollment for the five high schools in Joint School District No. 2: Centennial High School Eagle High School Meridian High School Mountain View High School
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2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee • Purpose: • Balance enrollment for the five high schools in Joint School District No. 2: • Centennial High School • Eagle High School • Meridian High School • Mountain View High School • Rocky Mountain High School
2011 – 2012 Attendance area Committee • Considerations for boundary change: • Balance enrollment and reduce overcrowding • Neighborhood continuity • Distance (walk zones, bus travel time) • Safety (roads, canals, geographic features) • Feeder schools • Avoid “bouncing students” While trying to balance enrollment, other considerations on the list can conflict with each other.
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee Enrollment with current attendance areas • Current student numbers. • Calculated using current 8th through 11th and 5th through 8th grade students.
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee • Future enrollment with current attendance areas
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area CommitteeCurrent High School Attendance Areas
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee Committee Attendance Area Proposal: • Move 234 students from Meridian HS who reside in the Lewis & Clark middle school boundary to Centennial HS. • Include the Rocky Mt. students (365) South of Ustick Rd. in the Meridian HS attendance area. • Include the Mt. View HS students (259) West of Meridian Rd. in the Meridian HS attendance area. • Include 116 MVHS students north of I-84 and east of Eagle Road in the Centennial Attendance area. • Note: These numbers are based on students currently in grades 5-8.
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee • Resulting change in enrollment based on proposed boundaries* *Enrollment based on current 5th – 8th grade because of recommendation regarding “grandfathering” current students. Read that section to see projected enrollments for the next four school years based on that part of the committee’s recommendation.
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee • This proposal is based on: • Centennial HS enrollment has been declining, but is expected to stabilize. • Significant increase in enrollment at MVHS and RMHS in future grades (5th – 8th) • No change to the Eagle HS attendance area: • Moving the area North of Chinden creates a disproportionate middle/high school split. Changing the Eagle Middle School boundary was not an option because EMS is over capacity.
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee • Grandfathering means that a defined group of students would have the option (choice) of staying at their current school rather than moving as the boundary change dictates. • In most cases when opening a new high school seniors have been given the option to stay .
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee • The committee proposes allowing all students who are enrolled and attending high school this year to have the choice to stay at their current school. • There is no new school opening which needs to be filled. • Enrollment numbers created by grandfathering all current students is not unmanageable. • The difference between allowing only grandfathering for juniors and seniors is not significantly different than also grandfathering sophomores (all current students) • Applying the change beginning with incoming freshmen would not require any student to change to a new school. • The committee does no recommend an automatic choice to siblings.
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee In this recommendation: • The boundary changes would apply to: • Current 8th grade classes. Students entering high school in 2012 would attend according to the new boundaries. • Current high school students would have the choice of changing schools or continuing at their current school. • Students need to make the choice of schools at high school registration in order to schedule classes for next year. • This committee recommends that once a student makes a decision the decision will not be changed except for extenuating circumstances. • Transportation will be the responsibility of the family.
2011 – 2012 Attendance Area Committee Enrollment numbers for grandfathering all students currently in high school:
2011 – 2012 Attendance Committee • Conclusions • Enrollment is not perfectly balanced. • The least balanced school (Mt. View) is reduced from 2425 to 2045 in the fall of 2015. Mt. View has been over 2000 for several years and will remain over 2000 for the four years the enrollment numbers project. • Rocky Mtn. should stay under 2000, based on the information available today. Renewed enrollment growth will change this projection. • Eagle’s enrollment is not increased, although younger grades that are increasing will cause enrollment to go up by about 100. • Centennial has the most stable attendance area due to relatively little land for future residential development. • Once residential growth resumes, every high school’s attendance area remains too large for the capacity of the school. • Grandfathering current students slows the rate that enrollment will be balanced, but prevents disruption of current students’ high school experience. • The parents on the committee remains open to suggestions and ideas and looks forward to the public hearings.
