Elementary School Boundary Changes
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Tonight the Central Kitsap School Board heard, for the first time, proposed changes to the boundary lines of its elementary schools to make up for the closure of Tracyton and Seabeck next school year.
The information presented during the meeting was very preliminary, but gave a good idea of which schools students could be attending.
In Seabeck, the suggested changes have students attending either
Cougar Valley Elementary or Green Mountain. The hope of the
district is to cluster students by neighborhood, so that children
on the same street or in the same vicinity would be attending the
same school.
But, the addition of students means that existing students in the schools could be moved. For Green Mountain students, those living along Northlake Way would move to Jackson Park Elementary School. For Cougar Valley students on Frontier Place and 12 Oaks, as well as some children on Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, they would move to Clear Creek Elementary School.
Another scenario has students living on Newberry Hill and Seabeck Highway/Sesame Street attending Silverdale Elementary. This option also has students living near the Golf Course in Chico and those along the Eldorado/High Point area attending Jackson Park.
For Tracyton, many of the students will be split between Pinecrest and Woodlands – two schools that are fairly close to Tracyton. During this transition, the district also has proposed students living on the westside of Highway 303 that attend Brownsville and Esquire Hills to instead go to Cottonwood.
In addition, Tracyton’s TEAM, Montessori and special education programs will also be moved. TEAM will likely end up at Silver Ridge, Montessori will likely go to Jackson Park – where it was established in the 1980s – and special education will go to either Emerald Heights or Esquire Hills. Dirk Glysteen, district administrator, said the ultimate decision to move the special education classes should be made by the staff running the program because they know what facility would be the best for their students.
Some Seabeck parents in attendance tonight were concerned with the relocation of the school’s Y-Kids and Headstart programs. The district currently doesn’t know where those two programs will be relocated because they are not district-run. Melanie Reeder, district spokeswoman, said she is waiting for directors of both programs to submit a formal request to transfer the programs to a new school. If the requests are not submitted, the district can’t relocate the programs to other schools.
While all these changes sound confusing, the board has scheduled two meetings for parents to ask questions, offer comments and learn more about what is being proposed. The meetings are scheduled for Thursday, March 1 and Monday, March 5. The board will make a final decision on the new boundaries March 28.
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
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