Portland School Board To Present Redistricting Plan Later This Month
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
The Portland School Board will unveil its preliminary plan for redistricting at its meeting later this month.
The School Board is considering redistricting in order to deal with an influx of new students. Projections have school populations totaling 53,000 students by 2025, an increase of more than 5,000 over current enrollment.
Of particular concern is unbalanced enrollment in the city’s elementary schools. Officials want to avoid overcrowding at one school while another is nearly empty
An initial meeting regarding the redistricting plan was held on Monday. Many parents attended the meeting and asked officials to consider proximity to schools when redistricting. Other advocated against redistricting, arguing that they moved into a particular area to allow their children to attend a particular elementary school.
Officials released a report detailing ideal grade enrollment earlier this year. The report stated that three sections, or classrooms, per grade, would be best for K-8 schools while K-5 schools would be best suited to have three or four sections per grade. The report said that two sections per grade would work.
For K-5 schools, grades with 500 to 550 students would have three sections while grades with 670 to 720 students would have four sections. K-8 grade with three sections each would have from 700 to 810 students.
School officials plan to finalize new school maps and vote on them by January of 2016. Those maps would then be used starting in the fall of 2016.
Preliminary redistricting plans will be unveiled at a discussion regarding the plan on October 29.
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