ADVISORY TEAM IS SOUGHT
In the fall of 2025, Park Hill School District will open Angeline Washington Elementary, the district’s 12th elementary.
As a result, Park Hill will be working through a redistricting process during the fall of 2024.
With this, the district is seeking advisory team members to help guide the redistricting process this fall. As an advisory team member, you will help evaluate criteria around enrollment numbers, socio-economic balance, transportation distances, neighborhood considerations and impact to current attendance areas while working through this process. The team will meet four times from August-November in the fall of 2024.
With 12 elementary schools and four middle schools, Park Hill School District will establish new boundaries that create a “direct feeder” model in which three elementary schools will go to one middle school. The balanced enrollments at Congress and Plaza Middle Schools will feed Park Hill High School and balanced enrollments at Lakeview and Walden Middle Schools will feed Park Hill South High School.
Proposed Redistricting Criteria and Evaluation Metrics
Boundary maps will be evaluated using the following criteria and metrics:
Enrollment Balance
Goal: Enrollment will be balanced among all schools at each level (elementary, middle and high) and the use of mobile classroom units across the district will be minimized.
Measure: Weighted Enrollment Counts; Students per Square Foot Standards
Priority/Weight: High (multiplier x5)
Considerations: Special Programming, Projecting Future Growth
Socio-Economic Balance
Goal: Minimize the variance of the socio-economic condition for all school attendance areas at each level (elementary, middle and high). It is a desire to have socio-economic and diversity metrics which are representative of the entire community.
Measure: Free and reduced percentages by attendance area
Priority/Weight: Medium (multiplier x3)
Considerations: Defined ranges will be established to represent optimal, adequate, acceptable, and undesirable targets. Additional outcome metrics include race/ethnicity and ELL percentages.
Transportation Distance and Safety
Goal: Students will be organized in attendance boundaries such that transportation distance is minimized, and such that the safety and health of students is prioritized.
Measure: Average driving distance per student from home to school. Measurements will be calculated as driving distance.
Priority/Weight: Medium (multiplier x3)
Maintain Subdivisions
Goal: Boundaries will be structured to maintain district neighborhoods/subdivisions within one school attendance boundary at each level.
Measure: Intact Subdivision Counts
Priority/Weight: Medium (multiplier x3)
Minimal Attendance Area Changes
Goal: The number of students that change schools will be minimal.
Map Creation and Data Analysis
The district will partner with two independent firms with expertise in school district redistricting and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis. The firms will create new boundary maps using the district stated goals and provide data for each metric and criteria for each map.
Redistricting Advisory Team
A Redistricting Advisory Team will be created to oversee the redistricting process, review data on board-approved criteria, provide feedback on maps, and review feedback from the community on various maps. The team is scheduled to meet for four meetings from September – November 2024.
Advisory Team Selection Process
Interested patrons will apply to serve on the Redistricting Advisory Team. The Board President and Superintendent will review all applications and make recommendations to the Board of Education by focusing on representation from across the district
