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Board discusses redistricting options, including moving sixth grade and offering seats at nearby schools
Summary
Board members and staff examined preliminary redistricting maps and student data and discussed multiple options to relieve middle school crowding: targeted reassignments to nearby Friendship and Harmshoek schools, moving the entire sixth grade, repurposing the old central office for classrooms, and phasing out certain principal-staff agreements.
The board reviewed preliminary redistricting maps and student-density data intended to address space pressure at the middle school and Miller School. Staff presented two maps showing town boundaries, school locations, and bus-route overlays and highlighted targeted areas where some students live closer to a different school than the one they currently attend.
Staff identified a group of roughly 30 students who could be reassigned from Miller to nearby schools in two clusters: approximately 23 students in a northern cluster and about seven students in an eastern cluster, with a grade-level distribution provided for the…
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