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Cecil County staff recommend redrawing Northeast Elementary boundary to ease overcrowding

2787261 · March 26, 2025
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Cecil County Public Schools staff presented a boundary adjustment proposal that would move 52 students from Northeast Elementary to Bayview Elementary and 44 students to Elk Neck Elementary to reduce overcrowding. The board will receive the plan again in April and is scheduled to vote on May 14; no vote occurred at the March work session.

Cecil County Public Schools staff on March 2025 presented a recommended boundary line adjustment for the Northeast Elementary feeder area intended to relieve overcrowding at Northeast Elementary and to account for upcoming development in the Southfields area.

The proposal would reassign 52 students to Bayview Elementary and 44 students to Elk Neck Elementary, reducing Northeast Elementaryfrom roughly 115% of its capacity to about 97%, Bayview from 83% to 91% and Elk Neck from 85% to 94%, according to district staff figures presented at the work session. Staff said the change would take effect next school year if the board approves it.

"Tonight, we're gonna review with you a recommendation and an overview of a boundary line adjustment for the Northeast Elementary community," Doctor Johnson, a member of the Cecil County Public Schools leadership team, told the board. She said the proposal is driven by the district's strategic goals of safe schools and operational efficiency and by the board policy (JCA) guidance on optimum enrollment.

The district emphasized several planning priorities that guided the proposal: anticipated development permits in partnership with Cecil County government, projected annual enrollment, bus ride distances, socioeconomic and racial composition of…

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