Redistricting Feedback

Concerns with ALL scenarios!

It is now time for Park Hill to truly listen! Give the committee the resources and information that was provided by the community about their areas to create boundaries that we are all proud of. As all these scenarios keep us at our current school. It concerns me the amount of children that are moving in and out of Prairie Point as well as other schools. Even though we are not moving, the balance across the map and at Prairie Point are not acceptable. Prairie Point (a perfect example) will lose key families that help make this school so amazing. Neighborhoods/subdivision are being moved around with no data to support why they need to be moved. Park Hill has such a great reputation for keeping their schools balanced. If the “islands” were put into place to help with balance and create the current boundaries why were they removed? What are the facts to support this? Could the “islands” help keep the feeder line consistent from elementary to high school? Comparing the current data to the new data it's alarming!! What will this do to our school district?!?! Since you’re only looking at current children, listen to the community and consider areas that are not subdivision and have a small amount of children in them. Is it truly worth moving a handful of kids? The process needs some adjustments, or you will end up in the same situation. The small committee groups need to come together and collaborate. Bring in the demographic professionals at the time of drawing boundaries, rather than giving the committee a map to blindly draw lines. I am very hopeful that Park Hill School District will not settle for these and will take the time needed to do what is best. The committee needs more resources, data, information, support, and TIME. Thankfully the district was provided with a ton of helpful information from the community, now Park Hill CAN listen and make the changes necessary.

This is by far my favorite scenario. We live less than a mile from Graden and it makes no sense that we go to Hawthorn.

People who live on Hampton Rd near Crooked should be able to stay at Union Chapel. It is literally a 10 second drive.

Hampton Rd residents should stay at Union Chapel

De factor segregation

Unintentionally, per Board considering factors higher priority, both A1 and B2 would be considered, in my opinion, de factor segregation. These scenarios based on socioeconomic percentages segregate kids from one side of town from the other. Also, I believe, that these 2 scenarios were given so Line Creek and Southeast would be happy with A2 and B1 socioeconomic percentage and not fight for more diversity. The Board, not the committee, needs to step up and take responsibility for these scenarios. The Board saw all of these scenarios before they went public and didn't do anything about it. It appears they want people to blame the committee and not take responsibility. Remember they were voted in by us and need to do their job. I encourage people to add their opinions to this site but also email Board members with their concern. All Board members should visit and talk to teachers at Line Creek and Southeast individually to see what impact high percentages of socioeconomic numbers have on student learning and what other problems occur in the classroom.

Any map that splits Middle school students from their elementary school friends is clearly not considering the impact psych/soc health!

I am not from this neighborhood but when addressing this at last nights meeting I was told this was probably done d/t soc/eco. I was absolutely speechless as clearly the soc/eco does not matter at the elementary level?!?! As when I mentioned the soc/eco problem I was asked what would you do better. But could tell that splitting “certain communities” was somewhat of a sore subject. Splitting children at the 6th grade level from their peers is absolutely unacceptable! Make the elementary schools more equally distrubutated and form your boarders for middle school using the elementary maps! Clearly the impact of these childrens psych/social developmental stage is not considered. Do schools not provide education based on stages of development? Bottom line is you need more time to develop better elementary maps then plan your middle schools.

There is no choice for the children who live in Sunpointe Village. They have a neighborhood school, Southeast, 1.5 miles from their homes.

Line Creek is 5 miles from home with no easy access. The children have a strong sense of pride in their school and our doing well at Southeast. Both Southeast and Line Creek have a disproportionate increase in FRL. It is unwise to increase the programming challenges these schools will face with these 4 redistricting plans. Equal access to services and quality education should be a district goal. Park Hill school district has a reputation of excellence. These 4 redistricting plans will create a momentum that is antithetical to the mission of the district.

Sunpointe

Sunpointe should not go to Line Creek. The driving logistics of that make no sense. Travel distance and time to get there are not even close to fair considering Southeast is literally just down 56th Street from the neighborhood.

Please balance soicioeconomic factors.

My child will stay at their current school in all 4 scenarios. Free/reduced lunch percentage at the school will jump by 10% in each scenario. It will reach or near a tipping point in each scenario that has been shown to reduce educational outcomes for all students at a school. Other schools will have %'s that are 25 points less. We have a great district that performs well as a whole, and I value the socioeconomic diversity that my child is exposed to at school. Let's keep that diverse balance and potential for high performance equal across the district.

A2 works best for the communities in Riverside. Myself and many of my neighbors are in favor of this scenario.

This scenario is best for Riverside families.

Why are the Hampton Woods kids going to PP? Already go to Graden, our house is at least a half mile closer, bus times are longer; senseless

B1 has better SES, but still needs some small tweaks.

I feel this is the best scenario for SES. However, we can do better! Let's tweak some lines to get SE and LC a tad lower. Ten years ago those schools were a mess. The 2012 redistricting committee did a great job improving those schools. We don't want to do go back to that situation! Montebella, Timber Ridge, and Stone Gate should ALL be able to stay with their peers and go to Walden. These 3 neighborhoods would barely affect enrollment sizes at Walden. We do not any of these three neighborhoods to go to Lakeview with Riss Lake, Monticello, The National, etc. We need to split higher SES to support the lower SES. Easy solution and I feel that would make the most sense to stay with peers.

Distance criteria not being met

Moving Sunpointe Village (I29 & 56th St) from Southeast which is less than 2 miles away to Line Creek which is 5 miles away is not ok.

Prefer any "B" scenario expected to displace 182 HS students vs. any "A" scenario expected to displace 423 HS students.

At the High School level, one concern is about disruption of students' ability to continue with specific teams/coaches, orchestra/band or other academic/non-academic multi-year commitment areas. Grandfathering could address this to some extent but may be a challenge at the higher numbers.

B1 seems to have a good distribution socio-economically and is the best option for my neighborhood.

A-2 & B-1- Have us going too far for elementary

9 hwy South of Park Hill Baptist should be assigned to either one of the two closer elementary schools- Graden or English Landing

Good for Blair Heights - our kids will do best at Graden

The Blair Heights neighborhood kids in this scenario would have a much better experience than in the plans that put us at Prairie Point. Putting them at Graden would mean only one major move away from their peers. The plans that put us at PP mean our kids would be moved away from their classmates at Hawthorn and then would go to Lakeview with very few of their Prairie Point peers.

Distance

I can appreciate that this is a difficult process and not everyone is going to be "happy" with the outcome. With that said, driving distance should be taken into account, not "as the crow flys".

Good for Blair Heights

This option lets kids in Blair Heights go on to MS and HS with their classmates.

Again, we live right behind a school and this situation requires a 3.5 mile bus ride each way for the children in our neighborhood.

Just like A1, there is no socioeconomic balance in this scenario. I hope we can do better and balance things out.

Large SES discrepancy

This scenario seems best for our family, keeps us close to the school that’s two streets down from our house.

A4 splits The Coves, where two board members live

Do we expect a fair evaluation of this scenario?

B scenarios all balance high school attendance better by 100 students and move approximately 240 less students at high school level.

A4 is supposed to be more SES balanced, but falls short compared to B1 and B5, which are more SES balanced and also displace less kids.

The goal of A4 was to get more SES balance. While it's better than A1 and B2's numbers, A4 still has 2 schools above 40% SES. B1 and now also B5 are still more balanced, with no schools above 40%, and also displacing the least amount of kids.

Absolutely ridiculous to send Monticello students who back up to English Landing Elementary to Prairie Point. Buses versus walking?

NO to B5

cut neighborhood, longer transportation mayor cost and move 6 or 7 kids out there school not good.

Sunpointe: B5 Offers better drive distance; SES; but new time line needed

Sunpointe Village residents prefer B5 for the same reason that the Monticello families dislike it. The entrance of Sunpointe Village is either 4.3 or 5.2 miles to Line Creek (which all of the other scenarios have our neighborhood attending). We are at Southeast now, one of the lower SES schools and are being asked to drive all of this distance, to attend the very lowest SES school. There are 3 other schools closer to Sunpointe than Line Creek. Monticello residents are upset about being asked to drive 2.9 miles to Prairie Point. Do the Monticello families have a valid concern? Absolutely! I very much understand why they would like their students to be able to remain at English Landing and be able to walk to school. Southeast is less than one mile from our neighborhood entrance. Their comments ring true for us also. What if the Monticello families were asked to attend Line Creek? Too far? Well, Line Creek is 4.2 miles from the entrance of Monticello. Does that sound like nonsense? That is what all of the other scenarios have planned for Sunpointe. It does not look like either of the new scenarios take SES into account, while the numbers are slightly more balanced than some of the other maps. I would like to know if the committee considered only moving families to the new school, so that all families would remain in place except for Hopewell families. What would the SES balance for that scenario look like? How would that fit into the Board’s criteria? How can they incorporate feedback to make more families happy? Could the Board change the time line?

Best of the Bs

While I prefer the A scenarios, this at least fixes the problem in B1 and B2 of Montebella being an isolated neighborhood from SE going to Lakeview. Thank you for providing that option. While I may not want to transport to English Landing per this scenario, I will gladly do so to avoid my children having virtually no elementary peers at their middle school.

YES! B5 all the way!

B5 absolutely makes the most sense out of all A and B scenarios, in my opinion. It seems to impact the least amount of people and is also displays the best SES balance. Thank you so much for using outside demographers to suggest this scenario.

B5 is another great option, works great for our community!