Seeking Silverdale and Central Kitsap

This blog post comes with a warning: The following entry is complex, and might require multiple reads to make sense, and even then you may walk away confused.

I attended the CKSD boundary forum Wednesday night, where district administrators unveiled — if you will — four options for ways its secondary boundary lines could change for the next school year.

In a nutshell the boundary change is needed because some of the district’s junior highs and high schools — namely Fairview and Olympic — have a smaller student population than their counterparts. (i.e., Fairview has 547 students, while CKJ has 932 and Ridgetop has 874; on the high school side Olympic has 985 students enrolled while CKHS has 1,272 and Klahowya — grades 7-12 — has 954).

The district wants to even out those numbers for a number of reasons including diversifying the student body (ethnically and socio-economically) and to ensure academic course offerings are similar at each school. If a school has a low student population it likely won’t have all the classes a school with a large population has because there aren’t enough resources or staff to implement those courses.

OK, enough with that. Here’s what people came to see: The Four Options.

These are complex and hard to explain, but I am going to do my best. What I will do is explain each option (Options A-D) and indicate which neighborhoods will see a move in students from one school to another. To identify the neighborhood, the district uses what it calls “cells”. These indicate the boundary bubble that could change. I will list each cell below, so the actual options don’t get too confusing. To see if you’re in a cell, look at the following descriptions.

I’d also suggest attending the district’s forum Thursday (Dec. 4) which starts at 630 p.m. You can ask questions and hear it straight from the horses mouth — which might make more sense. You can also go to the district’s Web site and find their maps of each cell and read a part of the powerpoint presentation given at the forum.

The cells:

Northlake: includes Northlake Way as an outer boundary, Chico Way in the middle, and NW Country Lane — as well as the roads around NW Country Lane. It includes homes near Erlands Point Road.

Jackson Park West: Northlake Way is the boundary to the east, the “cell” stretches to the west, however the only street listed is NW David Road. The boundary stretches west past that road. It also heads north to where Northlake Way intersects with Chico Way, and south slightly past where Northlake Way curves to the north. (best to look at the district’s map for this one).

Jackson Park Housing & Apartments: Includes most of the Jackson Park Housing and Apartments.

Clear Creek Bangor: This one’s a doozy. Because it’s so hard to define the boundaries, I’m going to direct people to the district’s map (or our map online) that shows the general vicinity. Basically its the area north and west of Waaga Way near the Bangor Base.

Clear Creek East: This runs north of Waaga Way along Highway 3 on the east and west sides, encompassing Mountain View Road, Trident BLVD, and heading further north.

Waaga Way/Silverdale Triangle: Southern boundary runs east to west along NW Bucklin Hill Road. East it goes to Waaga Way and then north along Waaga to its intersection with Silverdale Way. West it goes to Silverdale Way where it runs into Waaga Way intersection to the north. All the streets in between are included.

Old Military: South from NE Echo Drive in a long rectangle heading north using Highway 303 as an eastern boundary and going slightly west Central Valley Road, keeping Central Valley in the cell up to the intersection with Waaga Way.

Knights Court: Old Military Road to the west, running north to NE Fairgrounds Road and further east, but no road is listed as the east boundary. Roads encompassed include NE Knights Court and NE Bridge Place.

Esquire Hills: Highway 303 is its western boundary, it’s box-shaped with a point, running north past NE Winters Road, south to NE McWilliams Road and includes some of the major roads like Johnson Road, NE John Carlson Road, Haynes Road NE and Corfu BLVD NE. (this is one to look at the map for, there’s a lot of roads shown, but no street name listed).

Brownsville Central Valley East: includes Central Valley Road north of Waaga Way, Sigurd Hanson Road, NE Walker Drive, Old Military Road and its connection with Madison Road, Courtney Lane NE, Brownsville Highway NE, NE Paulson Road, Corey Lane NE and likely more I can’t see.

Brownsville Far South: South border is NE McWilliams Road, the boundary runs east past Illahee Road and north into the University Point area and includes NE Third Street N and a number of other roads in the middle – primarily in the Illahee area.

Tracyton Triangle: Its tip is at Tracyton BLVD’s intersection with Fairgrounds Road, heading north to Bucklin Hill Road — spreading east and west as it moves north. It goes past Tracyton BLVD on the west, and out to Nels Nelson on the East. It encompasses NW Selbo Road, NW Palmer Lane, Kari Lane NW, NW Silver Street, Monte Vista Lane and Olson Road NW, and any other street not named in the middle.

Here we go:

Option A:

High School movements:

* Students in the Northlake cell would move from Central Kitsap to Klahoywa Secondary School;

* Students in the Brownsville Central Valley East and Tracyton Triangle cells would move from Central Kitsap to Olympic High School.

Junior High Movements:

* Students in the Northlake cell would move from Central Kitsap Junior High to Klahowya;

* Students in the Jackson Park West cell would move from Ridetop Junior High to CKJ;

* Students in the Jackson Park Housing and Apartments cell would move from Ridgetop to CKJ;

* Students in the Tracyton Triangle would move from CKJ to Ridgetop;

*Students in the Knights Court cell would move from Ridgetop to Fairview Junior High;

*Students in the Clear Creek Bangor and Clear Creek East cells from CKJ to Ridgetop;

*Students in the Esquire Hills cell from Ridgetop to Fairview.

Option B:

High School Movements:

* Students in the Brownsville Central Valley East cell would move from CKHS to Olympic;

* Students in the Tracyton Triangle cell would move from CKHS to Olympic;

*Students in the Waaga Way/Silverdale Triangle cell would move from CKHS to Olympic;

*Students in the Northlake cell would move from CKHS to Klahowya.

Junior High Movements:

* Students in the Clear Creek East cell would move from CKJ to Ridgetop;

* Students in the Brownsville Central Valley East cell would move from Ridgetop to Fairview;

* Students in the Tracyton Triangle would move from CKJ to Fairview;

* Students in the Brownsville Far South cell would move from Ridgetop to Fairview;

* Students in the Northlake cell would move from CKJ to Klahowya.

Option C:

High School Movements:

* Students in the Waaga Way/Silverdale Triangle would move from CKHS to Olympic;

* Students in the Brownsville Central Valley East cell would move from CKHS to Olympic;

* Students in the Jackson Park West and Northlake cells would move from CKHS to Klahoywa.

Junior High School Movements:

* Students in the Clear Creek Bangor cell would move from CKJ to Ridgetop;

* Students in the Old Military cell would move from Ridgetop to Fairview;

* Students in the Esquire Hills cell would move from Ridgetop to Fairview;

* Students in the Jackson Park West and Northlake cells would move from CKJ to Klahowya.

Option D:

High School Movements:

* Students in Brownsville Central Valley East cell would move from CKHS to Olympic;

* Students in Tracyton Triangle cell would move from CKHS to Olympic;

* Students from Jackson Park West and Northlake cells would move from CKHS to Klahowya.

Junior High Movements:

* Students in Clear Creek Bangor and Clear Creek East cells would move from CKJ to Ridgetop;

* Students in Tracyton Triangle cell would move from CKJ to Ridgetop;

* Students in Old Military cell would move from Ridgetop to Fairview;

* Students in Esquire Hills cell would move from Ridgetop to Fariview;

* Students from Jackson Park Housing & Apartments cell would move from Ridgetop to CKJ;

* Students from Jackson Park West and Northlake cells would move from CKJ to Klahowya.

That’s it folks…all my fingers and eyes can take for one night. When I come in on Thursday I’ll post another blog with some of the parent and teacher questions from the forum and the district’s pros and cons of each option.

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