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Ad hoc committee recommends procedural limits on transfers to address high‑school enrollment imbalance
Summary
An ad hoc committee recommended keeping current high‑school boundaries and limiting in‑district transfers to a 1:1 per‑grade system with a Feb. 1 priority date and May 1 wait list to reduce a roughly 200‑student imbalance between Papillion La Vista South and Papillion La Vista High School.
District leaders and an ad hoc committee presented recommendations aimed at rebalancing enrollment between the district’s two comprehensive high schools.
Doctor Settles summarized the committee’s review of historical enrollment trends, staffing and capacity. He said the current difference runs at about 200 students between Papillion La Vista South (PLSHS) and Papillion La Vista High School (PLHS). The committee examined option‑enrollment and in‑district transfer procedures and concluded that the district should avoid boundary changes if possible because of their disruptive effects.
The committee recommended the following procedural changes: maintain existing high‑school boundaries; accept in‑district transfer requests on a 1:1 basis at the high‑school level per grade; set Feb. 1 as the priority date for in‑district transfer applications; allow denied applicants to be placed on a May 1 wait list should spots become available; and continue to follow Nebraska’s option‑enrollment law (initial deadline of March 15) for non‑district applicants. Doctor Settles said staffing capacity is set at 500 per grade level and physical capacity at 2,200, and that those figures informed the committee’s recommendations.
Board members on the ad hoc committee—named in the presentation as Mister Madler, Miss Butler, Mister Bailey and Miss Stolly—supported the recommendations, emphasizing that both high schools offer equitable academic and extracurricular opportunities. "We have two incredible high schools that deliver an equitable education for our students," Settles said. One board member summarized the committee’s view: "There is really no academic need for transfer," and several members urged monitoring the plan as new housing growth shifts enrollment patterns.
The item was presented as a procedural change and did not require formal board action at this meeting; staff said they would bring any codified policy back to the board if members request it.
