Guiding Principles

• Maintain existing feeder patterns – keep students in existing feeder group
• Minimize the numbers of schools and students impacted by boundary adjustments
• Minimize changes for families who have been impacted by past boundary adjustments
• Make adjustments for the long term to maintain boundaries for as long as possible
• Consider the transportation costs associated with any boundary adjustment
• Maintain existing neighborhoods
• Create an appeal/transfer process to allow students to stay at their current school, even if their neighborhood is moved to a new school through the boundary adjustment process
• Consider transfer requests to and from other District schools
• Consider equity in the boundary adjustment process

It is understood that some of these Guiding Principles can be mutually exclusive.