Redistricting Feedback

All 4 scenarios offer no choice - disapprove

I agree with and support my neighbors in SunPointe Village (I-29 & 56th street) who have posted comments. 1) We are standing together as a COMMUNITY to stay at Southeast Elementary because we are a part of that COMMUNITY. The diversity present at Southeast, not only race and ethnicity, but faith and cultural traditions, many countries represented, languages spoken, etc. enriches the community we are proud to be part. Southeast is 1.5 miles away from our neighborhood. While it may appear on paper to make the dividing line I-29, in practice this makes no sense. Line Creek Park is not a through street and as such would complicate transportation for both cars and buses, create much longer bus rides, create additional traffic in front of Hopewell and Line Creek and take us away from the physical community and the sense of community we have created by being part of Southeast 2) The socio-economic disparity is troublesome. This issue was supposedly one of the key criterion in making the decision in redistricting and yet Line Creek would fall into the lowest socioeconomic status for an elementary school in the entire district. This can and will effect resources available to students at Line Creek as well as the ability to hire and retain teachers. Every child deserves access to a quality education and this imbalance is unfair to all families in the PHSD. 3) As my neighbor Kevin Gogan and others have pointed out, there are no choices for us in these scenarios. All 4 show us going to Line Creek. Using I-29 as the divider is short-sighted and leads to many other challenges and complications for our community. I urge the school board and committee to strongly reconsider these scenarios and allow our children to remain at Southeast where they are thriving with a strong sense of community and opportunity to succeed.

Applaud the committee on their work but all of these scenarios have issues and they need more time to refine the elementary boundaries.

My Prairie Point kids would stay at their school in both A1 and A2 which I definitely support (Platte Ridge subdivision), but all scenarios have issues with SES imbalance across all schools making the gap larger than than they are currently. The committee needs more time to consider these issues so that we don't end up with "haves" and "have nots". This has the potential fallout of people either moving to or within the district choosing schools that have more resources leaving the schools that already had a high % free/reduced lunch even worse off.

Driving distance and SES numbers are unacceptable

This scenario has Sunpointe Village (I29 & 56th St) attending Line Creek Elementary. We look close to Line Creek on a map but we are separated by a forest and Line Creek trail. There is no back way out of our neighborhood so we will have to get on the highway and drive all the way through Riverside to get to school. Southeast, Chinn, English Landing, and Hopewell are all a shorter drive for our neighborhood. I also think it is unacceptable to have 2 school SES numbers in the teens while 2 schools are in the forties. This will have a tremendous impact on all students.

I've created some driving-time maps to aid the committee at parkhillmaps com

They are incomplete but will be finished by Monday. I will clean them up, add middle school (at least). The maps currently provide the 4 and 6 minute driving-time boundaries for all 11 elementary schools. Areas just outside the boundary would be 7 minutes, and so on.

Not in favor of A1 or A2

We are not in favor of either A1 or A2. These two options would unnecessarily separate middle school students from their elementary peers.

Breen Hills

It doesn’t make sense for the Breen Hills/Coventry area to go to Line Creek elementary. We would literally have to drive past Hopewell to get there. Southeast, Chinn, and Hopewell are all much shorter drives for us.

A Scenarios keep Montebella with SE peers at Walden

I prefer the A scenarios as they rightly keep Montebella with their SE peers going to middle school. In the B scenarios, we are the ONLY subdivision to split from SE and go to Lakeview. The A scenarios also logically account for our proximity to Walden, as we both are located along Northwood Road.

We live in country gardens DIRECTLY behind Graden. And A2 would send my kids to another elementary school? Absolutely not an ok plan.

A2 is best for my neighborhood

It will be impossible to please everyone. A2 has my vote.

A2 comments

A2 • A2 has the second most balanced enrollment. It has the least improvement in distance, but redistricts the fewest number of students, especially in comparison to A1 and B2. However, A2 fails on socio-economic criteria. While A2 has the second smallest spread increase (25.1), that still represents a 25-percent increase from the current spread of 20.2, and should be viewed as unacceptable. In addition, within the socio-economic category, 8 of the 10 current schools improve on the socio-economic metric, with only Graden (+1.2-percent) and Southeast (+11.3-percent) increasing the number of Free/Reduced lunch participants. This scenario overly concentrates participants into one school, against the criteria for balance. • Regarding balanced enrollment, A2 has six schools with enrollments above effective capacity. This provides absolute enrollment balance, but results in many schools being above capacity, and others significantly under capacity. On the extremes, Line Creek is 58 students over capacity while Prairie Point is 132 students under capacity. • Enrollment balance relative to capacity should be the metric for balance, rather than absolute numbers that do not take capita into account. This, as well as the SES spread increase are rational for not supporting A2.

On the bright side, my kids can wave to ALL their old Southeast friends as we pass Walden on the drive to Lakeview.

There has to be a better solution - or at a minimum a re-draw - to correct a scenario that results in one small neighborhood's worth of kids being sent to a school different school than ALL of their peers. Middle School is challenging enough as it is, forcing a situation where a few kids don't know anyone else isn't something we should get on board with and accept.

This scenario puts my son 4 miles from his school, when Graden is a mile away. It is just too far.

Too long on the bus!

I29 and 56th Street Distance from Line Creek

It may make sense if you don't know the roads but there is NO easy way to get there. My husband won't be able to take the kids to school anymore because his break is not long enough. This decision is greatly affecting our lives. Please review actual roads and reconsider.

Need more time

Of the 99 ideas contributed (on Nov 19), more than 2/3 regard proposed elementary boundaries. Elementary boundaries are the most challenging, received the least time in the process, and are receiving the most feedback. We need more time for the committee to do its work.

Best Option, Better than A plans

B Plans work best for the west side of the district and is our preference. Could also consider small tweaks to best overall plan to improve. (By the numbers this would be B1). All A scenarios completely disrupt lives 10 kids families and have a fractional percentage effect on the big picture numbers. Please consider any B options or make minor tweaks to make more sense to A plans,for example in the Green Acres and Forest Lake subdivisions. Area just north of 76th street and just east of I-435 on the far middle, west of the district. Large land mass area, not densely populated, primarily older empty nest families. No sense to make changes where benefit doesn't outweigh cost. We would like to leave this small amount of kids in their existing schools!

Terrible for the middle schools

Great idea if you want to make folks drive the farthest to get to their school. Cannot support this!

Very few children, very big impact

The Bluff's

Yet another SES % above 40% and Transportation issues for Sunpointe not taken into account. Vote is for B5.

Please keep our SES below 40%. Please take into consideration that Sunpointe cannot easily get to LC. B5 works the best for our community and SES%. Please consider moving Monticello to EL.

Any plan with multiple schools bearing the brunt of economic disadvantage is not fair for our children.

The school district as a whole contains pockets of great financial privilege, and this resource should be shared equally among the schools. It is not right for a few schools to be disadvantaged by unequal distribution of opportunity - for this reason option B1 is the best choice. SES equity means that Park Hill parents are willing to place the increased chance of success of ALL children above whatever inconvenience the redistricting (and at times redistribution of wealth) would mean for individual children and families.

With all of the elementary plans getting worse on the SES balance criteria, board should allow committee more time to evaluate more options.

On both the SES balance criteria and enrollment criteria, Southeast and Line Creek are disproportionately impacted in all plans. It isn't good for all of Park Hill students to concentrate poverty. We can do better for our kids.

Blair Heights to Graden

I just do not understand how in 4/6 scenarios and current locations, Blair Heights does not go to Graden when we live closer than the many, many of the people that go to Graden. My house is 1.9 to Graden. I have friends/family that goes to Graden in every scenario and they are 3.1 miles. Please explain.....

Park Hill vs PHS on the western border

With the anticipated development that way, it seems like PHHS' enrollment issues will not go away by having the western edge dip down like that. It makes more sense for that to remain as part of PHS.

A4 does NOT work for Brenner Ridge

We moved to this community knowing that our children would be going to SE. We love this school. We are a SE family. We currently have 3 children who attend SE. We have been there for 6 years and plan on 4 more. In the scenario our housing development, which is 1.5 driving miles from SE, would be forced to move to LC which is approximately 6 driving miles from our residence. The driving is the least of my concern though. This period of my childrens lives are vital to their well being. My son is in the first grade, he has learning disabilities. He is just now getting the confidence in himself to be able to tackle this. I am concerned about setbacks with him having to move schools. This could be crushing for them to have to move to a new school, make new friends, as well as new teachers, new routines, etc. This just doesn't make sense for our community. Also it appears in this scenario, that LC, and SE take the lion share of the Assisted Lunch children. SE jumps almost 12%.

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

A4 works well for our family and community!

This scenario is not ideal for Riverside. This divides neighborhoods in a way that doesn’t make sense.

No to B5

I support this option. Thank you for listening to us and keeping Countrywood at Union Chapel Elementary!

Yes to Countrywood staying with Union Chapel Elementary!

Daycare at edge of Walnut Creek is listed as UC elementary

The daycare located at the edge of Walnut Creek neighborhood has always been a staple for the Walnut Creek families. The way that redistricting is now has the daycare going to Union Chapel. This is going to make enormous problems for the people of Walnut Creek who would like their children to continue to go to school with their neighbors . Can we please incorporate the daycare as part of Graden & as part of Walnut Creek.

NOT good for Monticello!

English Landing is walking distance for Monticello. Graden would be closer than Prairie Point if English Landing is not an option. It's gonna be hard for the buses to go from Monticello to Prairie Point since you can only get in and out of Monticello one way onto and off of Highway 45.

Use B5, but move Monticello and Hickory Hollow back to EL, Montabella to SE?

B5 has a lot going for it; it's better for Sunpointe Village and the SES numbers are better than some other plans. If we could use B5, but switch both Hickory Hollow and Monticello back to English Landing (since both neighborhoods can walk there), and perhaps move Montebella from English Landing back to Southeast (as I surmise is what they want, from reading the comments), I think B5 could be a winner. I appreciate the district asking for feedback. I know it's not required and I know a lot of school districts wouldn't ask. I am sure it would be easier not to solicit feedback, but I am glad you are letting the community weigh in.