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Pleasant View Elementary

Attendance Area Proposal to Address Overcrowding in North Meridian and at Hillsdale Elementary

Project Timeline

Community Informational Meetings Wednesday, January 23 – Hillsdale Elementary, 7 pm Monday, January 28 – Ponderosa Elementary, 7 pm Wednesday, January 30 – Hunter Elementary, 7 pm Boundary Committee Meetings Tuesday, February 5 Thursday, February 7 Wednesday, February 13 Tuesday, February 19 Thursday, February 21 Wednesday, February 27 Public Presentations of Boundary Proposal Tuesday, March 5 – Hillsdale Elementary, 7 pm Wednesday, March 13 – Ponderosa Elementary, 7 pm Thursday, March 21 – Hunter Elementary, 7 pm Presentation to Board of Trustees Tuesday, April 9

Com Committee A ee Assign gnment?

• Propose an attendance area for Pleasant View Elementary
• Attendance area for Pleasant View will go into effect Fall 2020
• Consider elementary level schools where changing attendance areas

would optimize enrollment, including Hunter and Prospect Elementary

• Determine if there is any attendance area change or policy

recommendation to reduce/cap Hunter’s enrollment for 2019

• Consider options for reducing overcrowding at Hillsdale
• The self-contained GT program will move to Siena fall 2019,

reducing Hillsdale’s enrollment by 70 students

• One tuition kindergarten program will be eliminated, opening up
• ne additional classroom for fall 2019
• Considered options to reduce overcrowding until a new elementary

school is built south of I-84

Current Elementary School Boundaries School Enrollment and Capacities

North Meridian School Capacity Enrollment Discovery 650 536 Hunter 650 816 Paramount 650 596 Ponderosa 650 680 Prospect 650 742 Willow Creek 650 702 South East Meridian Hillsdale 650 797 Lake Hazel 496 480 Pepper Ridge 650 584 Siena 650 603

Drawing A g Attenda endance A e Area eas: Method hodology gy

Locating Students Geographically

Study Existing Attendance Areas to Understand Feeder System

Creating Attendance Areas Calculating Future Students Based on Platted Subdivisions

Number of platted home sites X .8 (the 2010 census calculation of students per home) Divide resulting number by 13 (the number

• f grades K through 12)

Multiply resulting number by 6 (the number

• f grades in Elementary, K though 5)

Divide resulting number by 7 (7 is an assumed number of years that it will take a new subdivision to reach completion).

Proposed P Plea easant V View E Elem ementary A Attenda endance A ce Area ea

Projected Enrollment Fall 2020: 397 Fall 2021: 500

Chinden Ten Mile Ustick

Proposed H Hunter er Elem emen entary A Attenda endance A ce Area ea

Projected Enrollment Fall 2020: 655 Fall 2021: 662

McMillan Ustick Meridian Ten MIle

Proposed H Hunter er Elem emen entary A Attenda endance A ce Area ea

McMillan Road Ustick

Hunter Ponderosa

McMillan Road

Proposed H Hunter er Elem emen entary A Attenda endance A ce Area ea

• N. Venable LN

Proposed P Ponder erosa E Elem emen entary A Atten enda dance e Area ea

Projected Enrollment Fall 2020: 642 Fall 2021: 663

Star Road Linder Ustick Cherry Lane

Hunter Ponderosa

McMillan Road

Proposed P Ponder erosa E Elem emen entary A Atten enda dance e Area ea

• N. Venable LN

Chinden

Proposed P Prosp spect ect E Elem emen entary A Attenda endance A ce Area ea

Chinden Linder Meridian Road Ustick

Projected Enrollment Fall 2020: 717 Fall 2021: 720

Proposed D Discover ery E Elem ementary Attend endance A ce Area ea

Projected Enrollment Fall 2020: 589 Fall 2021: 598

Hillsd sdale e Elem ementary P Proposal

Enrollment Fall 2017: 650 Fall 2018: 751 Now: 797 Fall 2019: GT program moved to Siena

• 70 students

Projected Fall 2019: 725

Attenda endance ce Area ea Implem ementation R Rec ecom

• mmendations
• The changes to Hunter and Ponderosa Elementary Schools’ current attendance areas go into effect fall

2020 with the opening of Pleasant View Elementary

• The changes to Prospect Elementary School’s attendance area go into effect fall 2019
• Enrollment at Hunter is closed to all new students effective May 31, 2019
• Students from families that never attended Hunter will be provided busing to another area school
• Students who move in to the area in Hunter’s current attendance area that will become

Ponderosa will be provided busing to Ponderosa

• Students who move in to the area in the remainder of Hunter’s current attendance area will be

provided busing to Paramount

• The cap on enrollment will remain in place until the opening of Pleasant View Elementary in the

fall of 2020

• Enrollment at Hillsdale will be closed to all new students effective May 31, 2019
• Students who move into the Hillsdale attendance on the east side of Eagle Road will be provided

busing to Silver Sage Elementary

• Students who move in to the Hillsdale attendance area on the west side of Eagle Road will be

provided busing to Siena Elementary

• The cap on enrollment will remain in place until the opening of a new elementary school south of

I-84