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District unveils six preliminary boundary options for new Ophelia Valdez Yeager elementary; trustees ask for refinements
Summary
Staff presented six conceptual school-attendance boundary options for the new Ophelia Valdez Yeager ("Ophi") elementary, including variations intended to keep some neighborhoods with existing schools; trustees asked staff to refine options and test smaller variations, especially around Longfellow and Alcott.
Riverside Unified staff presented six draft attendance-boundary concepts for the district’s planned Ophelia Valdez Yeager elementary school and asked trustees for direction before public outreach narrows options. The proposed Ophi school, planned for a 900-student capacity because of high neighborhood density, was modeled against current attendance at six receiving schools: Alcott, Castle View, Emerson, Magnolia, Pachappa and Taft. Staff said 1,145 students currently reside in the area that will be served by the new school and that 138 students residing in the area now attend schools other than their neighborhood campus (staff attributed a portion of that to employees who may transfer their children to their employer school). Six preliminary options were shown. Common trade-offs were…
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