D93 Begins Moving Boundaries

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Story Published: Nov 6, 2007 at 8:04 PM MDT

Story Updated: Nov 7, 2008 at 1:14 PM MDT

By Danielle Leigh

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Planners for the Bonneville School District are crunching numbers tonight trying to decide if a few Huskies may need to become Raptors, and I got a sneak peak at some possible boundary changes the district will be imposing to accommodate the growing student population.

Specifics as to what neighborhoods will be calling a new school home are still pretty hard to come by, but I'm told a lot the same kids who were shifted south two years ago when the district added Rimrock and Woodland Hills Elementary, are going to be shifted north again when the two new elementary schools open this coming fall.

"Everyone is game for a move," says Transportation Manager Karen Judy.

District officials are dividing neighborhoods into squares, and then even smaller squares, trying the piece together the puzzle that will decide where your kids will go to school.

"We're looking at what neighborhoods we can move that wont impact a lot of people what neighborhoods will fit precisely in what schools," says Judy.

Tomorrow they'll be presenting the board with some possible solutions to overcrowding in the district.

"You can take this 120 and this 189 and this and this and that would be a boundary, or you could you know," says Judy as she weighs possible scenarios.

They're calling in round one in a series of meetings that will take place over the next six months.

"Things may change and we may need a different scenario," says Director of Operations John Hicks.

"This is one (scenario), this is one (scenario). We're just tweaking all of these. We'll go back to the board 2-3 times before we really know what were doing," says Judy.

Altering district boundaries so that no school is overcrowded is a lot of work, but it's getting easier thanks to this new program call Versa Trans.

"We can draw a boundary and it will tell us how many students we have and how many are in 2nd grade," says Judy.

"We can bring a parent in who is disgruntled and say this is what we are working with. It doesn't make any sense to drive past a school to get to a school," says Hicks.

The district does promise that kids in a 1.5 mile radius of an elementary school will not be moved because they are in walking distance.

They add that they won't be declaring the final new boundaries until March, and will give you plenty of opportunities to share you opinions before then.

If you'd like to hear what they've thought up so far, you can attend the school board meeting tomorrow at 7:30 PM.

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