Redistricting - Fall 2024

Dr. Paul Kelly, Assistant Superintendent for Business and Technology
Chair and Voting Member

Patrons — Voting Members

Principals — Voting Members

Administration — Voting Members

Ex-Officio — Non-Voting Members

Other — Non-Voting Members

The team will meet four times between August and November 2024.

Boundary maps will be evaluated using the following draft criteria and metrics. Specificity around these criteria will be determined in August 2024.

*The Priority/Weight may change based on Board and community feedback.

Enrollment Balance

Goal: Enrollment will be balanced among all schools at each level (elementary, middle and high) and the use of mobile classroom units across the district will be minimized.

Measure: Weighted Enrollment Counts; Students per Square Foot Standards

Priority/Weight: High (multiplier x5)

Considerations: Special Programming, Projecting Future Growth

Socio-Economic Balance

Goal: Minimize the variance of the socio-economic condition for all school attendance areas at each level (elementary, middle and high). It is a desire to have socio-economic and diversity metrics which are representative of the entire community.

Measure: Free and reduced percentages by attendance area

Priority/Weight: Medium (multiplier x3)

Considerations: Defined ranges will be established to represent optimal, adequate, acceptable, and undesirable targets. Additional outcome metrics include race/ethnicity and ELL percentages.

Transportation Distance and Safety

Goal: Students will be organized in attendance boundaries such that transportation distance is minimized, and such that the safety and health of students is prioritized.

Measure: Average driving distance per student from home to school. Measurements will be calculated as driving distance.

Priority/Weight: Medium (multiplier x3)

Maintain Subdivisions

Goal: Boundaries will be structured to maintain district neighborhoods/subdivisions within one school attendance boundary at each level.

Measure: Intact Subdivision Counts

Priority/Weight: Medium (multiplier x2)

Minimal Attendance Area Changes

Goal: The number of students that change schools will be minimized.

Measure: Number of students changing schools within grade levels.

Priority/Weight: Low (multiplier x1)

The district will partner with Woolpert as our Redistricting and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analysis firm. The firm will create new boundary maps using the district stated goals and provide data for each metric and criteria for each map.

• Map Creation and Data Analysis Firms
  Request for Proposal Open to bidders

• Board of Education Meeting Information Presentation
  Redistricting Process, Criteria, Advisory Team Composition and Timelines

• Redistricting Advisory Team
  Open Redistricting Advisory Team member application

• Redistricting Advisory Team
  Advisory Team member application closes

• Board of Education Meeting Board Action
  Approval of Redistricting Process, Criteria, Advisory Team Composition, Timelines and Redistricting/GIS Analysis Firms

• Redistricting Advisory Team Meeting #1
  Review process, timeline, criteria, Board of Education expectations

• Redistricting Advisory Team Meeting #2
  Review maps, provide feedback, narrow to five maps

• Community Engagement
  Online Community Engagement window open

• Redistricting Advisory Team Meeting #3
  Review online community input, evaluate, narrow to three or fewer maps

• Community Engagement
  In-person Community Engagement evenings (open house)
• Oct. 14, Plaza Middle School Gym, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
• Oct. 15, Lakeview Middle School Gym, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

• Board of Education Work Session
  Update on the Redistricting Process

• Redistricting Advisory Team Meeting #4 (Final Meeting)
  Final review of feedback and evaluation of remaining scenarios

• Board of Education Meeting Information Presentation
  Final Redistricting Scenario and Process Update

• Board of Education Meeting
  Final recommendation to Board of Education and Board vote