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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