Winona board discusses school reconfiguration, proposes elementary attendance-boundary changes for 2025–26

The Winona Area Public School District on Feb. 6 discussed a reconfiguration plan that would shift kindergarten to Goodview Elementary and revise elementary attendance areas for the 2025–26 school year.

Superintendent Kevin Brzezinski presented the district's recommended changes, saying, "All kindergarten students will attend Goodview Elementary." He told the board the recommendation would make the current Goodview attendance area part of the Jefferson attendance area and would keep the existing boundary between WK Elementary and Jefferson unchanged. Brzezinski also said, "All students in grades 1 through 4 of the Rios program would attend WK Elementary." He noted that some special-education programs may be exceptions to attendance-area assignments and that the district will communicate with families affected by those exceptions.

The nut graf: The proposed map is intended to reduce disruption by moving established cohorts together (for example, moving all Goodview students together into Jefferson) while balancing student populations between buildings. The board was given enrollment and classroom-section projections and asked to…