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Appleton school board reviews three options to set attendance boundaries for new Sandy Slope Elementary
Summary
District staff presented three boundary options for the new Sandy Slope Elementary that split the current Huntley attendance area by Highway 41, outlined tradeoffs on capacity and walking access, and proposed a Nov. 25 approval timeline with family surveys to inform staffing.
The Appleton Area School District board on Wednesday reviewed three proposed attendance-boundary options for the new Sandy Slope Elementary, each of which would redraw part of the current Huntley Elementary attendance area north of Highway 41.
Assistant Superintendent Ebony Grice said the district is proposing boundaries to make Sandy Slope a neighborhood school north of Highway 41 and to reduce Huntley’s current more-than-10-square-mile attendance area. District staff described three options that differ mainly in how much of the north-side development is assigned to Sandy Slope versus Ferber Elementary.
The district says the new school has capacity for 600 students. Grice reported that about 249 students currently living in the area proposed for Sandy Slope now attend Huntley; another 67 Huntley-area students live in the Huntley attendance boundary but attend other schools. Officials said those counts and family choices will feed staffing decisions once boundaries are finalized.
District staff framed the options against seven criteria discussed at an Oct. 28 work session: geographic proximity, enrollment capacity, feeder patterns,…
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