Boundary Proposal
Consolidated School District 158
Board of Education Meeting
March 19, 2015
Guiding Principles
•  Alleviate the capacity issues at Leggee
•  Provide for equitable classroom use in all buildings (RTI
rooms, special education rooms, music rooms, etc.), when
possible
•  Find a solution that will serve us for several years, with
the understanding that a return to explosive growth in
our communities may force a reexamination in the future
•  Minimize the impact on children and families by phasing
in changes over three years so that children near the exit
grades of 2nd and 5th can stay at Leggee if they desire
Guiding Principles
•  Continue to house preschool in one building
•  Permit families to accelerate the phase-in if they wish to
keep all children at the same building
•  Enable students at Square Barn and Reed Road to attend
the respective middle schools on those campuses
•  Minimize the overall number of families affected
•  Keep neighborhoods together
•  Minimize bus traffic across Route 47 where possible.
Current Elementary School Boundaries
4 Current
Middle
School
Boundaries
Current
Elementary
Boundaries
Recommended
Elementary
Boundaries
Current Elementary Boundaries
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Recommended Elementary Boundaries
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Recommended
Elementary
Boundaries
with Middle
School
Boundaries
Recommended
Middle School
Boundaries
Shaded
Impact of Recommendation
Total number of K-5 students moved by 2017:
•  Leggee to Chesak/Martin
281 K-5 students
•  Leggee to Mackeben/Conley 330 K-5 students
Pros
•  Allows for three-year phasein while immediately freeing
needed space at Leggee
Elementary School
•  Creates a clean East-West
dividing line along Route 47
•  Less bus travel across Route
47 and railroad tracks
Cons
•  Moves more total
students than Scenario 2
12 Recommended Phase-in
Elementary School Students
•  Require all students entering Kindergarten or 3rd grade
in fall 2015 to enroll and attend elementary school
based on their residence in the new elementary school
boundaries.
•  This will allow 2015-2016 1st and 2nd grade students
and 4th and 5th grade students to remain at their
current elementary school through 3rd grade or 5th
grade.
Recommended Phase-in
Middle School Students
•  Middle school boundary changes do not begin until
fall 2018.
•  Middle school students will continue to attend their
currently assigned middle school until the 2018
phase-in begins.
•  Require all 6th-grade students entering middle school
in fall 2018, and subsequent years, to enroll and
attend middle school based on their residence in the
new middle school boundaries.
Option to Accelerate Phase-in
•  Families that will have siblings attending different
elementary campuses due to the boundary change, as
space permits, will be permitted to request accelerating
the phase-in.
•  These requests must be submitted by April 10, 2015.
•  Those approved to accelerate to the new elementary
boundaries will receive transportation to the new school.
However, there will be no transportation provided to the
new middle school boundaries until the fall of 2018.