Cuyahoga Falls board narrows school-boundary choices; will refine Scenario 3 and share maps with families

Cuyahoga Falls City — The Board of Education on Nov. 20 directed staff to refine and publish a modified version of Scenario 3 for proposed elementary-school boundary changes, with additional outreach to affected families and a promise to post Scenario 4 for transparency.

Doctor Salica, opening the boundary discussion, said the district expanded printed maps after community requests and routed suggestions to transportation staff for technical review. "We blew up the maps per that suggestion, and we sent those out, shortly after our last meeting," Salica said, noting feedback had come through ParentSquare, email and social media.

The board heard from Margie Johnson, identified in the meeting as the district’s transportation supervisor, who walked members through Scenario 2 and the staff-run Scenario 3. Johnson and board members discussed routing constraints — dead-end streets, pickup patterns and practical bus routing — that limit how neatly neighborhoods can be assigned to a single, walkable…