Binghamton board reviews elementary redistricting scenarios that would affect 331 students

Superintendent Tanya told the Binghamton Board of Education on Aug. 19 that staff have prepared four redistricting scenarios that together would relocate 331 students of the district’s roughly 2,266 elementary population in order to rebalance class sizes and free classroom space for alternative uses.

The plan matters because the district has not re-evaluated elementary attendance boundaries in more than 40 years and is seeking to keep average class sizes near 16–18 while also preserving neighborhood schools and creating usable space that could be rented or repurposed if enrollment remains low.

Tanya said the scenarios try to avoid “big big shifts” such as sending entire neighborhoods across the city, and instead target pockets of students who live near different schools. She described a pink “scenario 1” and several other reassignments that would change clustering patterns (for example moving some students currently assigned to Woodrow Wilson to Franklin or Roosevelt) and open space in buildings such as Wilson for possible community or program…