After sifting through a public meeting and over 70 responses from the residents, the Hamilton Southeastern (HSE) School Board is attempting to narrow down the options for adjusting elementary school boundaries in the area of the under-construction Deer Creek Elementary School.  At a Wednesday evening work session, board members discussed the two options before them and how they could be tweaked before a final vote on December 8.

The Option D was formulated in response to the many suggestions submitted by the public and people connected to HSE Schools.  It does move more students in more school buildings.  It also puts Deer Creek Elementary at 88% of capacity, higher than school officials wanted.

Scenario C is simpler, taking some students from Southeastern Elementary, already overcrowded, and sending those students to Deer Creek.  This plan also gets Deer Creek to 80% capacity, where school officials wanted the student population to be, allowing for expected future growth.

During the nearly 90-minute work session, there were many suggestions to fine-tune the final boundary adjustment formula and how changes would impact certain neighborhoods.

So, the scenarios (provided on this blog post) could be adjusted before the final vote by the board December 8.

Administrators recommended to the board an exemption from moving from one school to another for incoming 4th-graders, but there would be no transportation provided.  Also, another recommendation would allow any family that opted to attend a different
school to assist with overcrowding can stay at their current school, but no transportation would be provided in this case.