Wednesday, December 19, 2001
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Wednesday, December 19, 2001 |
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BOE approves changes in school attendance zones By MONROE ROARK
Fayette students can now know where they will go to school next year. With a few slight modifications from their previous form, the Board of Education Monday night unanimously approved new maps designating school attendance lines for the next three. Some changes were made in response to comments at last week's public hearing and subsequent calls and e-mails, according to assistant Superintendent Stuart Bennett, who presented the final maps at Monday's regular school board meeting. For elementary schools, the board adjusted attendance lines slightly in the Tyrone-Burch and Huddleston-Oak Grove areas to assure that subdivisions would not be split among two schools, Bennett said. Also, a few students formerly designated for the new Cleveland Elementary were sent to Spring Hill Elementary instead, so that Cleveland would feed only two middle schools Flat Rock and Fayette instead of three. Another line along Hilo Road in the Fayetteville area was tweaked a bit, shuttling a few students between East Fayette Elementary and the new Sara Harp Minter Elementary. In the high school ranks, some students formerly designated for Fayette County High School in the 2004-05 school year will now go to the new high school scheduled to open that year in the Lisbon area south of Fayetteville. Superintendent John DeCotis recommended that students entering the fifth grade next fall who have been drawn into a new district have the option of remaining in their old school for that year if they can provide their own transportation. He went on to suggest that other students be allowed to stay put if they can provide their own transportation and their schools have room for them. Both of those recommendations also were approved. Another change motivated by last week's public hearing was the elimination of the proposed school on the Katz property on Peachtree City's west side, but DeCotis pointed out that the property would be used in the next cycle of school construction several years from now. "That property was donated to the school system, and the school system will use it," he said. He also reminded the public that the site where Cleveland Elementary is now under construction has enough acreage for a middle school and a high school. The county's next middle school will be built there, and the next high school will likely be in that area, he said. Board member Greg Powers added that the middle school site next to Cleveland Elementary has already been cleared and graded, in an effort to help the school system stay ahead of the curve somewhat and be prepared for its future use.
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