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District presents three elementary boundary options as Lake Elmo and Bayport openings approach
Summary
Staff presented three preliminary boundary maps to balance enrollment in the district’s southern elementary schools ahead of the openings of new Lake Elmo and Bayport elementary schools. The board and boundary committee emphasized neighborhood integrity, transportation, and racial-isolation risk; public listening sessions begin Nov. 13.
District staff and members of a 19-member boundary committee presented three preliminary options for elementary school boundaries in the southern part of the Stillwater Area Public Schools district as the district prepares to open new Lake Elmo and Bayport elementary schools.
Executive Director of Technology Eric Simmons and committee members described the committee’s guiding principles: protect neighborhood integrity, minimize unsafe walking crossings, keep feeder patterns into middle schools unchanged, account for transportation efficiency and aim for a programmatic minimum enrollment near 400 students per elementary to support specialist staffing. Staff noted that Brookview and Lake Elmo currently enroll relatively larger shares of…
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