Superintendent Andrea Celico said the Cuyahoga Falls City School Board reviewed three proposed elementary school boundary scenarios during a presentation on Oct. 22 but that "no decisions were made at the meeting."

The presentation, given by Transportation Supervisor Margie Johnson and summarized by Celico, was intended to generate options and questions rather than produce immediate assignments. Celico said the board will continue considering scenarios 2 and 3 and will meet again on Nov. 19; staff aim to have final building assignments to families before winter break.

Celico said Scenario 1 "does not work" because projected enrollment at Price would exceed that building's capacity, so the board and staff did not pursue detailed analysis of that option. Scenario 2 was shown in detail and, according to Celico, the capacities in that scenario "fall within our capacity limits" when compared with current boundaries.

District staff cautioned that several data limitations affect the projections. Celico said the kindergarten counts are estimates derived from current enrollment and by assuming some current preschool enrollees will enroll in kindergarten next year. The scenarios do not include students who open-enroll into the district or intra-district placements. Celico also noted that map "dots" showing student residences can represent more than one student per household and that some students under the scenarios could be assigned to schools farther from their homes than other nearby schools.

As an example of the tables used to show impacts, Celico reported that DeWitt currently enrolls 339 students; under one scenario 210 would remain at DeWitt, 28 would be reassigned to Lincoln, 16 to Price, 78 to Richardson and 7 to Silver Lake. The scenario also projected 336 students would attend DeWitt next year, with grade-level breakdowns provided in the tables.

Celico said the district is working with mapping vendor Transfinder to allow staff to zoom to street level and enlarge maps for closer review; the transportation supervisor can manipulate lines in the mapping tool and the dot patterns update accordingly. Celico emphasized student safety as a guiding factor when drawing boundaries and said staff will continue to refine maps and data ahead of the Nov. 19 meeting.

No formal motion or vote was taken during the presentation; the board asked staff to continue analysis and return with refined scenarios. The district did not provide a final implementation date beyond the stated goal to complete assignments before winter break.