Clark County AZAC opens public-input meeting on proposed rezoning around Robeson Middle School

The Attendance Zone Advisory Commission met Tuesday, Jan. 14, to take public input on two attendance-boundary proposals affecting Robeson Middle School and several neighboring middle and junior high schools in Clark County.

Tracy Murphy, director of demographics and zoning for the Clark County School District, presented two draft rezoning maps that would dissolve Robeson’s attendance boundary to support the district’s plan to convert Robeson Middle School to a choice high school. "The primary purpose of this public input meeting is for ASAC to listen to you and record your opinion," Murphy said, noting the commission would not engage in back-and-forth discussion during the session.

The first proposal would reassign groups of students from Robeson to Monaco, Martin and Keller (listed as Keller Junior High in the presentation) depending on their locations. Murphy said Proposal 1 would move roughly 330 students in Area A (south of Owens Avenue, west of Nellis Boulevard, north of Bonanza Road and east of Lamb Boulevard) from Robeson to Monaco Middle School; about 257 students in Area B (a stretch described roughly south of Harris Avenue and north of Charleston Boulevard, including Arrow Palms Mobile Home Park at 543 North Lamb Boulevard, Vera Johnson Manor Apartments at 507 North Lamb Boulevard and Cordero Pines Apartments at 499 North Lamb Boulevard) from Robeson to Martin Middle School; and about 2,105 students in Area C (south of Bonanza Road and bounded by several local streets) from Robeson to Keller Junior High School.

Proposal 2 would shift different portions of the same overall area between Monaco, JD Smith, Barton and College junior high schools. Murphy said Proposal 2’s Area A would rezone about 245 students from Monaco Middle School to JD Smith Middle School; other areas in the proposal would reassign approximately 257 students and 205 students from Robeson to Barton Middle School and College Junior High School, respectively. Murphy also said ASAC may choose to grandfather currently enrolled students in grades 6 and 7 in Area A only, meaning only incoming sixth graders and newly enrolled students would be reassigned each year if that grandfathering is recommended.

Murphy told the commission the Board of School Trustees previously approved Revision 5 of the district’s Capital Improvement Program, which included the recommendation to convert Robeson Middle School to a choice high school; the AZAC process is part of implementing that change. She said the committee will collect public input at this meeting, formulate recommendations at a Jan. 21 AZAC meeting at 9:30 a.m. in the Edward A. Greer Education Center boardroom, and forward final recommendations to the superintendent and Board of School Trustees. The Board is scheduled to consider the zoning recommendations on Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. in the same boardroom.

There were no public comments recorded for this meeting. The commission conducted routine business—adoption of the agenda and adjournment—by voice votes before closing the meeting at 6:16 p.m.