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Lakeville board debates short-term fixes and districtwide redesign to ease Highview overcrowding
Summary
At a special Lakeville Public School District meeting, board members and staff debated whether to implement a targeted, one-year boundary adjustment to relieve Highview Elementary’s reported overcapacity or move now to a districtwide E1 redesign. Staff provided capacity figures and transfer thresholds; no formal vote was taken.
The Lakeville Public School District Board of Education met in a special session to weigh how to address overcrowding at Highview Elementary and whether to delay a full boundary redesign in favor of a short-term, localized change.
Chair Amber Cameron opened the meeting by saying the session was convened to "make space for all the students in our district" and to gather board questions and community input ahead of a decision. District staff outlined the planning objectives: ensure room for long-term growth; preserve racial, socioeconomic and programmatic balance across schools; minimize moves for students with special needs; and keep attendance areas geographically logical.
The central dispute was whether the board should adopt a narrow, immediate move affecting one neighborhood block (the…
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