District administration updated the board on long‑range facility planning and said consultants would present a timeline and scenario models to guide decisions about high schools and middle‑school feeder patterns.

Superintendent’s staff said they remain focused on a two‑high‑school model for the near term but are not abandoning the idea of a new high school later. Administrators reported a planning target of about 1,150 students for Lafayette and 1,700 for Central; staff said the current combined high‑school enrollment is about 2,832 students.

The district said it will run scenarios with both three‑ and four‑middle‑school feeder models and present those feeder maps and enrollment projections at the June 9 board meeting. Administration emphasized staffing pressures—reported elsewhere in the meeting—to justify working toward a two‑high‑school structure that the district believes will help staffing and operations in the medium term.

Administrators cautioned that a new high school would require a longer timeline and additional votes; they said a timeline from the district’s DLR consultant will show a multi‑year path that could lead to a ballot question in the mid‑to‑long term depending on capacity, funding and board direction. “We feel confident that we are still—we still need to pursue [a] two high‑school system,” an administrator said. The board asked for a clear phased plan so trustees and the public can track milestones and decisions as scenarios unfold.

The item was informational: no board vote was taken on shifting high‑school structure at this meeting.