Farmington board discusses redrawing elementary and middle-school boundaries as enrollment shifts

District administrators told the Farmington Public School District Board of Education at a work session that the district should begin a formal boundary‑realignment process for the 2026–27 school year to address uneven enrollment and a rapid increase in center‑based special‑education classrooms.

The administration said the current boundaries have become what they called “Swiss cheese,” with some neighborhoods split across schools and some buildings, notably Aiken Road, holding more available space because of past student flows and nearby development. “When we take a look at yellow, which is Aiken Road…that building had kind of the most space,” the administrator said, describing how past shifts routed new developments into that school.

The board heard two broad options from staff: realign boundaries across the district’s five elementary schools to create more contiguous neighborhood assignments and rebalance…