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Attendance Area Committee Proposed Attendance Area

Proposed timeline

Community Informational Meetings Heritage Middle School Cafeteria, 7 pm – Wednesday, September 27 Eagle Middle School Cafeteria, 7pm – Monday, October 2 Attendance Committee Meetings Monday, October 9 Monday, October 16 Monday, October 23 Monday, October 30 Monday, November 6 Monday, November 13 Monday, November 27 Monday, December 4 Public Presentations of Attendance Area Proposal Eagle Middle School Cafeteria, 7 PM – Monday, December 18 Heritage Middle School Cafeteria, 7 PM – Wednesday, December 20 Star Middle School Gymnasium, 7 pm – Monday, January 8 Presentation to Board of Trustees Tuesday, January 16

What the committee worked on?

• Propose an attendance area for Star Middle School
• Attendance area will go into effect fall 2018
• The committee considered the best

solution for kids without restricting or limiting its best efforts to find that solution

• For example, it became necessary to consider changes at
• ther levels that might be needed to keep peers together

as they transition from one level (elementary, middle, high)

• Balancing enrollment and reducing
• ver-enrollment was the primary goal
• Reduce Heritage Middle School’s enrollment

to get enrollment under the building’s capacity (1000 students)

• Reduce Eagle Middle School’s enrollment to get

Enrollment under the building’s capacity (1000 students)

Creating Attendance Boundaries: Considerations

• Balance enrollment and reduce overcrowding
• Neighborhood continuity
• The committee worked to keep subdivisions in the same

attendance area

• Safety issues (busy roads, canals, etc)
• Several roads – Chinden and Eagle in particular – create

safety busing zones, although some areas are close enough to walk if it wasn’t for these hazards

• Distance (walking students, busing, etc)
• Some solutions weren’t viable because changes in the

attendance zone would have required busing students who currently walk, limiting some options

Creating Attendance Boundaries: Considerations

• Current students versus future growth
• The committee used approved residential lot counts by geographic area

to calculate future growth. Using census data, student growth was calculated using the following formula to calculate the number of students per grade: Number of plats X .8 students per household / 13 grades / 10 years for current plats to be built, sold, and occupied

• “Bouncing” students
• The committee considered the location of future schools at the

elementary, middle and high school levels to try to anticipate future attendance area changes.

• Feeder schools (middle school attendance zones)
• Solving feeder schools proved to be one of the biggest challenges while

creating an attendance area for Star Middle School

Facility Parameters

• Star Middle School will have

enrollment capacity of 1000 students

Middle School Enrollment and Capacity Capacity Enrollment Eagle Middle 1000 1289 Heritage Middle 1000 1341 Meridian Middle 1250 1061 Lake Hazel Middle 1000 960 Lewis and Clark Middle 1000 1113 Victory Middle 1000 853 Sawtooth Middle 1000 1050 Lowell Scott Middle 1100 1063

SMS

1900 1800 2400 1800 1800 1942 2042 1836 2292 2410 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 Centennial Eagle Meridian Mountain View Rocky Mountain

High School Capacity and Enrollment

Capacity Enrollment

Creating Attendance Areas: Locating Students Geographically

• The Committee worked with numbers exported

from PowerSchool and mapped using ARCGis.

• The numbers are displayed by grade level and

geographic area:

• E = elementary students in that square mile
• r portion of the square mile
• M = middle school students in that square

mile or portion of the square mile

• H = high school students in that square mile
• r portion of the square mile

Creating Attendance Areas Calculating Future Students Based

• n Platted Subdivisions
• Number of platted home sites X .8 (the 2010

census calculation of students per home)

• Divide resulting number by 13 (the number of

grades K through 12)

• Multiply resulting number by the number of

students at each level (6, 3 or 4)

• Divide resulting number by 10 (10 is an assumed

number of years that it will take a new subdivision to reach completion)

• Committee members also spoke with local

developers to get a better understanding of construction and sales rates

• Committee members scouted subdivisions to

determine the percent of construction already completed.

A note on interpreting the following attendance area maps

On the following colored maps, the proposed attendance areas are drawn over the existing middle school attendance areas. Here is a key to the colors and the middle schools they represent:

• Blue: Eagle Middle School
• Purple: Meridian Middle School
• Green: Heritage Middle School
• Orange: Sawtooth Middle School

The map that follows the color-coded map is drawn to identify the roads that the attendance area follows. On the maps showing the proposed changes at the elementary level, the proposed change is drawn over the existing elementary attendance

• areas. The affected area is labeled to indicate the proposed change.

Proposed Star Middle School Attendance Area

• The eastern boundary follows Linder Road to State

Street then follows the current Eagle Elementary attendance area to the south fork of the Boise River (this line is the same as the current Star Elementary attendance area)

• The attendance area turns south at Meridian Road

to Chinden Road

• The attendance area goes west on Chinden Road to

Ten Mile

• The southern boundary is Ustick Road

Resulting Star Middle School Enrollment Capacity: 1000 Year Enrollment 2018 601 2019 687 2020 773 2021 860 2022 946

Proposed Star Middle School Attendance Area

Proposed Star Middle School Attendance Area

Proposed Eagle Middle School Attendance Area

• The western attendance area line follows Linder

Road (the current attendance area line between Star Elementary and Eagle Hills Elementary

• The southern attendance area line follows the

current Eagle Middle attendance area line Resulting Eagle Middle School Enrollment Capacity: 1000 Year Enrollment 2018 875 2019 911 2020 946 2021 981 2022 1017

Proposed Eagle Middle School Attendance Area

Proposed Heritage Middle School Attendance Area

The area proposed to be included in the Star Middle School attendance zone:

• follows the current Heritage Middle School attendance

area on the north (the south fork of the Boise River).

• The southern attendance area line of this area is

Chinden Road

• The eastern attendance area line is Meridian Road

The area proposed to attend Meridian Middle is the following square mile (Eagle/McMillan/Ustick/Locust Grove).

Resulting Heritage Middle School Enrollment Capacity: 1000 Year Enrollment 2018 1102 2019 1115 2020 1129 2021 1142 2022 1155

Proposed Heritage Middle School Attendance Area

Proposed Heritage Middle School Attendance Area

Balancing Middle School Enrollment

• The next middle school could open in fall 2022 or 2023 at the

earliest

• Because of different rates of residential development in each of the

proposed attendance areas, school enrollment will balance over time with the arrival of new students

Projected Future Middle School Enrollment

Capacity School 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 1000 Eagle 875 911 946 981 1017 1052 1000 Star 687 773 860 946 1032 1118 1000 Heritage 1115 1129 1142 1155 1169 1182 1000 Sawtooth 1167 1177 1186 1196 1205 1214 1250 Meridian 1186 1208 1230 1252 1274 1296

Proposed Willow Creek Elementary Attendance Area

• The proposed change in the Andrus attendance

area adds the western portion of the current and Andrus attendance area to Willow Creek

• The proposed eastern attendance area line is

Linder Road

• The light blue area on the map is the current

Willow Creek attendance area Resulting Willow Creek Elementary Enrollment Capacity 2018 2019 2020 724 649 665 682

Proposed Paramount Elementary Attendance Area

• The proposed change to the Andrus Attendance

area adds the area between Linder Road and Locust Grove to the current Paramount attendance area

• The pink area on the map is the current Paramount

attendance area Resulting Paramount Elementary Enrollment Capacity 2018 2019 2020 724 683 692 702

Proposed River Valley Elementary Attendance Area

• The proposed change to the Andrus Attendance

area adds the area between Locust Grove and Eagle Road Road to the current River Valley attendance area Resulting River Valley Elementary Enrollment Capacity 2018 2019 2020 650 513 525 537

Proposed Andrus Elementary Attendance Area

• The Andrus attendance zone

remains the same other than the areas now proposed to attend

• ther schools.
• For Andrus Elementary, the change

prevents the school from over- enrolling in the near future.

• The yellow areas on the map

are approved residential subdivisions Andrus Capacity: 650 Year Enrollment 2018 446 2019 478 2020 511 2021 543 2022 576 2023 608 2024 640

Proposed Change to High School Attendance Areas

• Keeps more peers together as they transition between levels
• Prevents small percentage of middle school students from

Meridian Middle attending Rocky Mountain with few peers

• Reduces Heritage enrollment by 140 students
• Utilizes available space at Meridian Middle School
• Reduces Rocky Mountain enrollment by 205
• Utilizes available capacity at Meridian High School

Grandfathering Current Students: All current Rocky Mountain

Students (grades 9 – 11 students) could choose to stay at RMHS. The change in high school attendance zones begin with 9th grade students entering high school in fall 2018. Capacity School 2018 2019 2020 1800 Eagle 2130 2218 2306 1800 Rocky 2429 2467 2505 2400 Meridian 2149 2257 2365

Resulting High School Enrollment

Other proposals the committee considered

Move other areas to Meridian Middle

• The McMillan/Locust Grove/Ustick/Meridian square mile
• The 307 middle school students would over-crowd

Meridian Middle.

• This area is largely in the walk zone to Heritage

Middle School.

• Difficult to split without splitting neighborhoods.

Reduce enrollment at Heritage by changing other areas of the Heritage attendance area

• To create a middle school to high school feeder system

would have required moving the Heritage attendance north of Chinden to Eagle High School.

• Eagle High is currently 240 students over capacity

and is projected to exceed 2300 students by 2020.

• Depending on the areas north of Chinden moved

into Eagle High’s attendance zone, with expected enrollment growth, Eagle High could top 2400 students by fall 2020

Other proposals the committee considered

Make no changes to the Andrus Elementary Attendance Zone

• Andrus Elementary will grow rapidly because of the

number of new residential construction sites that have been approved in its current attendance area.

Future Enrollment at Andrus Elementary with no change to the school’s current attendance area Capacity: 650 Year Enrollment 2017 652 2018 684 2019 717 2020 749 2021 782

The yellow areas are approved residential subdivisions