The new school being built is in the Meridian neighborhood, which is NOT a part of Circle C. The land has a complicated history that is tied up with the development of Circle C, but is not a Circle C neighborhood. We need to stop calling it "a Circle C school", and referring to three schools for Circle C residents. This school is being built primarily to relieve overcrowding at Clayton, and Clayton has become overcrowded because of the building that continues to occur in Southwest Austin.
No students will be added to Clayton's population during the upcoming boundary process. The lines that will be redrawn will address overcrowding at Clayton, Mills and Oak Hill-therefore, no students will be moved to any of those schools. The priority is to shrink these schools, while looking at currently underenrolled schools: Kiker, Patton, Boone and Sunset Valley.
Cowan Elementary School will also be involved in this process, since the outcome is likely to affect their lines as well. They are neither over or under enrolled, but their boundary lines are adjacent to several of the affected schools.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words. We are trying to keep you well-informed.
ReplyDeleteI am researching the existing boundary lines for all the affected schools, and am having trouble finding much. AISD has no map, though they have a web tool that gives the school for each street: access.austinisd.org/school_boundaries/
ReplyDeleteQuestion: it seems that people near Boone go to Cowan, and vice versa. Why is this?
We will be receiving maps next week at the 1st Task Force meeting. We will post them, and look for that info also. Thanks.
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