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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.