Superintendent proposes redistricting plan to relieve Bryant Woods; board schedules public hearings and work sessions

Superintendent staff presented a proposed attendance-area adjustment plan to the Howard County Board of Education on Sept. 25 that would reassign about 253 elementary students among nearby schools to relieve sustained overcrowding at Bryant Woods Elementary School and rebalance utilization across adjacent schools.

The plan: Tim Rogers, manager of school planning, told the board the superintendent’s proposed plan would reassign roughly 253 elementary students. The proposal would send about 74 students in neighborhoods along Owen Brown Road from Bryant Woods to Clemens Crossing, about 16 students in the Columbia Town Center area from Bryant Woods to Running Brook, and move several other neighborhood polygons so Clemens Crossing would send 125 students from Clary’s Forest to Swansfield and Swansfield would send about 38 in the Hawthorne area to Clemens Crossing. Staff projected resulting utilization rates would place Bryant…