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Board directs superintendent to draft final redistricting language moving two polygons to Wilde Lake; motion passes 6-1
Summary
After a work session on boundary options meant to relieve Bryant Woods Elementary, the Howard County Board of Education voted 6-1 to direct the superintendent to prepare final language for a plan that moves planning polygons 268 and 1268 from Harper's Choice Middle School to Wilde Lake Middle School; the board will consider final adoption Dec. 4.
The Howard County Board of Education on Nov. 20 directed the superintendent to draft final approval language for a redistricting plan that shifts two planning polygons from Harper's Choice Middle School to Wilde Lake Middle School, a move intended to reduce projected overcrowding at Bryant Woods Elementary.
District planners presented two primary options, dubbed concept 4B and 4B.2, and several variations that adjust elementary boundaries and middle‑school feeder alignment. Matthew Cropper of Cropper GIS Consulting told the board that the elementary changes in concept 4B would reassign roughly 1,122 K‑5 students (about 4.3% of the focus‑area elementary population) and, under 4B, reduce Bryant…
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