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Berkeley County trustees review five boundary options to ease overcrowding ahead of two new schools
Summary
Trustees and staff discussed five redistricting options designed to open or shape attendance areas for two new schools in 2026, focusing on minimizing repeated student moves, feeder‑pattern effects and transportation impacts; staff will return with refined maps and analyses after additional community input.
Trustees for the Berkeley County Board of Education spent the bulk of a Nov. 3 workshop weighing five map options intended to relieve elementary and middle‑school overcrowding and finalize attendance areas for two schools slated to open in 2026.
Staff planner Mike Miller told trustees the options — labeled A through E — reflect data updates and feedback from six community meetings. He said the district updated 2026 projections using average daily membership (ADM) and new student geocoding captured in late August, and noted an approximate 300‑student decrease in pre‑K counts that was folded into utilization tables.
“ADM is by far the most stable, accurate, and reliable measure of how many kids we can see at a school,” Miller said, explaining why the district relied on that metric. He identified rapid growth in the Carolyn…
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