27 J attendance boundaries changing
1/22/2008 - Brighton, Colorado
With new schools come new school attendance boundaries.
Knowing the new schools are opening and armed with months of work by 27J staff and the Boundary Planning Committee and comments from public hearings, the 27J Board of Education has approved new elementary and middle-school attendance areas.
August will bring with it the opening of Prairie View Middle School and Turnberry Elementary School in District 27J. The middle school will be east of Prairie View High School on 120th Avenue. Turnberry Elementary is being built in the Commerce City subdivision of the same name, northwest of Potomac Street and 104 th Avenue. The following August, Otho Stuart Middle School will open in Commerce City. The elementary attendance area will become effective in the 2008-09 school year.
The elementary attendance area will become effective in the2008-09 school year.
With new schools come new school attendance boundaries.
Knowing the new schools are opening and armed with months of work by 27J staff and the Boundary Planning Committee and comments from public hearings, the 27J Board of Education has approved new elementary and middle-school attendance areas.
August will bring with it the opening of Prairie View Middle School and Turnberry Elementary School in District 27J. The middle school will be east of Prairie View High School on 120 th Avenue. Turnberry Elementary is being built in the Commerce City subdivision ofthe same name, northwest of Potomac Street and 104th Avenue.
The following August, Otho Stuart Middle School will open in Commerce City.
The elementary attendance area will become effective in the 2008-09 school year.
The sixth-grade and seventh- and eighth-grade attendance areas also become effective next year – but for only the one year.
Once Stuart Middle School opens in 2009, each 27J middle school will house sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. Accordingly, new attendance areas will account for the fourth middle school.
The Board of Education goal has been K-5 elementary schools, grades 6-8 middle schools and grades 9-12high schools. Stuart Middle School will allow that.
District Planning Manager Joy Gerdom said, in finding options – and in determining recommendations – the district’s boundary planning guidelines call for four criteria:
• minimize the impact on existing schools and students,
• plan for adequate enrollment to provide for sufficient and efficient programming,
• accommodate growth, and
• address transportation.
For more information, visit the 27J
Open enrollment is an option offered by School District 27J. The deadline to apply is Feb. 15. A student may apply to enroll in a school outside his/her normal attendance during the open enrollment window.
Applications should be submitted to the school of choice. Approved applications will be valid for the 2008-09 school year only. Transportation of students participating in open enrollment is the responsibility of the parents orguardians.
All the materials required to apply for Open Enrollment are posted on the Web at sd27j.org under “Open Enrollment” in the left-navigation menu. They also are available at the school of choice or the Ed Harshbarger Educational ServicesCenter, 18551 E. 160th Ave., Brighton.
Decisions are made by the school principal and will be made by March. Open-enrollment approvals are based on space available, programs available and staff available.
Currently, 3,057 of 12,213 students
– 25 percent -- are choosing open enrollment, said Joy Gerdom, 27J planning manager. “One thing we learned, new schools encourage returns among the students who had previously gone to charters chools or outside the district.”
Priority will be given as follows:
1. Students who live in the attendance area of the school.
2. Student applicants who reside within the district but do not reside
within the attendance area and who previously attended the school they wish to attend.
3. New student applicants who reside within the district who are siblings of a currently enrolled student who live at the same residence as the currently enrolled student.
4. New student applicants who reside within the district and are not siblings of a currently enrolled student.
5. Student applicants who reside outside of the district and who previously attended the school they wish to attend.
6. New student applicants who reside outside of the district who are siblings of a currently enrolled student and who live at the same residence as the currently enrolled student.
7. New student applicants whoreside outside of the district and are not siblings of a currently enrolledstudent living at the same residence
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