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The Pleasanton Unified School District will be holding two community meetings in the week ahead to inform the public and gather input about the district’s high school boundary adjustment process.
Parents and community members will be able to ask questions and make comments during both the meetings — which will be held on Monday (Dec. 4) and Wednesday (Dec. 6) — after staff provide background information boundary options for the high school attendance areas, according to the agenda report for Monday’s session, which will be a special meeting for the Board of Trustees.
The process for changing the high school boundaries follows similar deliberations for the elementary and middle school levels in recent years.
During fall 2020, the PUSD school board directed staff to develop a plan to adjust the elementary school boundaries in order to address enrollment imbalances and student overflow issues. The board did that after it decided not to continue with the plans to build a 10th elementary school, which was originally listed in the $270 million Measure I1 bond project list that voters passed in 2016, due to declining enrollment and financial considerations.
After a pause in 2021, staff resumed that work in 2022 before the board voted during its March 23 meeting to officially update the district’s elementary and middle school boundaries. Students enrolled in the district were then assigned to their new residential boundary schools after July 1.
But the plan was for staff to continue studying the high school boundaries over the past year so they can present a plan to the board in 2024 and implement a plan for the 2024-25 school year, which is why the district is holding these two meetings, to get input from the community, officials said.
According to Monday’s staff presentation, the school board will tentatively discuss and gather more input during its Jan. 11 meeting and will be set to consider approving the new high school boundaries during its Jan. 25 meeting.
The two community meetings will be held at the new district offices at 5758 W. Las Positas Blvd. in Training Room 3. The meeting on Monday will run from 5:30-7 p.m. while the one on Wednesday will be from 6-8 p.m. The same information will be presented at both meetings, PUSD officials said.
Read the full agenda and presentation here.
