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U-46 updates attendance-boundary mapping, middle-school construction and extends elementary day by 20 minutes
Summary
School District U-46 trustees heard progress on middle-school construction and boundary mapping and approved new elementary start and end times that add 20 minutes to the school day beginning 2025–26.
School District U-46’s Board of Education received a facility-planning update Jan. 27, 2025, outlining progress on three middle-school construction projects, ongoing attendance-boundary mapping and a plan to extend elementary school days by 20 minutes beginning in the 2025–26 school year.
The presentation, led by Chief of Staff Brian Lindholm and Deputy Superintendent of Operations Dr. Anne Williams, covered work on a new Bartlett middle school, additions at Kenyon Woods and Kimball middle schools and initial steps for a new Elgin middle school site. Lindholm said the district has held four of five “Mapping Our Future” community sessions after presenting preliminary boundary recommendations to the board on Dec. 9, 2024, and that an interactive online map and an address lookup tool will be posted to the district website. He said feedback so far has focused on maintaining feeder patterns, transportation, sibling preferences and…
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