Board hears detailed updates, staff and community raise concerns over school consolidations, schedules and services

Trustees and district staff spent a large portion of the April 23 meeting reviewing the district’s consolidation and transition plans for the 2025–26 school year. Presentation and discussion items covered site-by-site logistics, capacity planning, student safety staff assignments, special education placements and communication plans for families.

Key operational items discussed: staff said the plan will place some middle grades on high school sites in junior–senior configurations and that the DeSoto Building will house Santa Rosa Middle School programming at Santa Rosa High for the coming year. Staff described efforts to preserve middle-school–specific spaces (for example, keeping the DeSoto Building’s bathrooms predominantly for middle-school use) and said bus and drop-off plans are being developed to reduce student congestion during peak times.

Enrollment and waiting lists: District staff reported pre-enrollment figures and waiting lists for multiple schools. At the time of the April 23 presentation the…