Attendance Area Committee

Timeline, process, and scope of project

Back Ground• Attendance zone re-drawing gone wrong

• Best Practices

• Lessons Learned

Proposed timelineCommunity Informational MeetingsMeridian High School Auditorium, 7pm – Wednesday, September 16Rocky Mountain High School, 7 pm – Wednesday, September 23Mountain View High School Auditorium, 7 pm – Wednesday, September 30

Boundary Committee MeetingsWednesday, October 7 – Orientation to processWednesday, October 14 – Subcommittee proposalsWednesday, October 21 – Subcommittee proposalsWednesday, October 28 – Subcommittee proposalsWednesday, November 4 – Subcommittee proposalsWednesday, November 11 – Presentation of subcommittee proposalsWednesday, November 18 – Reconciliation of subcommittee proposalsWednesday, November 25 – Reconciliation of subcommittee proposalsWednesday, December 2 – Preparation of final proposal

Public Presentations of Boundary ProposalMountain View High School Auditorium, 7 PM – Wednesday, December 9Meridian High School Cafeteria, 7 PM – Wednesday, December 16Eagle High School Auditorium, 7 PM – Wednesday, January 6

Presentation to Board of TrusteesTuesday, January 26

What will the committee do?• Propose an attendance area for Hillsdale Elementary

• Consider other elementary level schools where changing attendance areas would optimize enrollment

• Attendance area changes will go into effect Fall 2016• Propose attendance are for Victory Middle School

• Attendance area will go into effect fall 2016• Propose an attendance area for Star Middle School

• Attendance area will go into effect fall 2017• Propose attendance areas for the district’s five major

high schools• Attendance area changes would go into effect fall 2017

Facility Parameters

• Hillsdale Elementary will have enrollment capacity of 650 students• The committee will use established enrollment capacities of existing

schools where needed to optimize use of elementary space• Victory Middle School will have enrollment capacity of 1,000 students• Star Middle School will have enrollment capacity of 1,000 students• Meridian High School will have enrollment capacity of 2,400 students

Current Elementary School Boundaries School Enrollment and Capacities

Elementary School Capacity EnrollmentMorgan 450 450Andrus 650 636Chaparral 650 498Chief Jo 585 581Donnell 540 540Desert Sage 650 662Discovery 650 555Eagle 480 480Eagle Hills 545 533Spalding 760 756Frontier 596 377Galileo 735 735Gateway 496 433Hunter 650 700Joplin 489 406Lake Hazel 450 468Mary McPherson 430 532Meridian 500 437Paramount 650 551Pepper Ridge 650 665Peregrine 650 541Pioneer 725 725Ponderosa 650 601Prospect 650 691River Valley 650 457Seven Oaks 650 428Siena 650 799Silver Sage 340 374Star 420 478Summerwind 480 399Ustick 545 461Willow Creek 650 478

School Enrollment and CapacityHillsdale Elementary School

Capacity Enrollment

Donnell 540 540Desert Sage 650 672Lake Hazel 450 468Mary Mac 430 532Pepper Ridge 650 665Siena 650 799Silver Sage 340 374

HES

Middle School Enrollment and Capacity

Capacity EnrollmentEagle Middle 1000 1235Heritage 1000 1194Lake Hazel 1000 1485Lewis and Clark 1000 1139Lowell Scott 1000 1009Sawtooth 1000 1022Meridian 1250 1045

Victory and Star Middle Schools

VMS

SMS

High SchoolEnrollment and Capacity

Capacity EnrollmentEagle 1800 1817Centennial 1900 1768Meridian 2400 1555Mountain View 1800 2382Rocky Mountain 1800 2332

Current High School Attendance Schools

Creating Attendance Boundaries: Considerations

•Balance enrollment and reduce overcrowding

•Neighborhood continuity

•Safety issues (busy roads, canals, etc)

•Distance (walking students, busing, etc)

•Current students versus future growth

•“Bouncing” students

•Feeder schools (middle school attendance zones)

Creating Attendance Areas:Locating Students Geographically

Creating Attendance Areas: Identifying students by geographic areas

Creating Attendance Areas: Separating Students by Geographic Area (and other criteria)

River Valley Elementary

Current Enrollment: 906

Capacity Without Portables: 650

“Locust Grove Elementary”:

Capacity Without Portables: 650

378 students12

students

14 students151 students

258 students

68 students

Creating attendance area boundaries:Calculating future students

Creating Attendance AreasCalculating Future Students Based on Platted Subdivisions

Number of platted home sites X .8 (the 2010 census calculation of students per home)Divide resulting number by 13 (the number of grades K through 12)Multiply resulting number by 6 (the number of grades in Elementary, K though 5)Divide resulting number by 7 (7 is an assumed number of years that it will take a new subdivision to reach completion).