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Consultant presents boundary and feasibility report; board members ask for follow-up questions
Summary
A consultant from MGT gave the board a final report that proposes contiguous attendance zones, protects feeder patterns and balances school utilization; board members pressed for further answers on specific neighborhoods, DLI impacts and transportation.
Lance, a consultant from MGT, presented results of a boundary and feasibility study during the Provo School Board study session on April 16, saying the district is not in a facilities crisis but does have areas of uneven utilization.
Why it matters: the study creates options for attendance-zone changes that could shift student assignments, affect transportation routes and land-use planning, and inform longer-term facility decisions such as whether to repurpose or close a school.
MGT’s approach, Lance said, balanced five guiding principles: preserve neighborhood schools, protect feeder patterns, respect natural barriers, minimize transportation impacts and account for special programs such as DLI (dual-language immersion). The firm mapped resident students and current attendance choices, then modeled revised, contiguous elementary…
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