Superintendent recommends delaying Redmond boundary process after capacity review

Superintendent Holman recommended Monday that the Lake Washington School District delay a boundary process for the Redmond learning area for at least one year to allow time to use updated enrollment and capacity data and to consider a broader, districtwide approach. Holman told the board that Rockwell Elementary will reopen in 2026 after a rebuild and enlargement funded by the district's 2022 construction levy and that the new school adds nine permanent classrooms — about 207 additional permanent seats — and that removing five portables on the campus will change total capacity by about 92 seats. The recommendation grew out of a district analysis by its demographer, Flow Analytics, and staff, which compared enrollment to two capacity measures: “permanent capacity,” the number of regular classrooms available after specialized spaces such as art and science rooms are excluded; and “total capacity,” which includes portables. An associate superintendent presenting the data said,…