Approve Proposed Attendance Boundary Adjustments for Barrington and Rodgers Middle Schools (Operations Division)

Due to residential growth within south Hillsborough County, a redistricting is needed to relieve overcrowding at Barrington Middle School.  Staff prepared an original, aggressive proposal to help relieve and balance enrollments of the impacted schools, which included Barrington, Rodgers, Giunta, Mann, Mulrennan, and Randall Middle Schools.  Staff considered future developments in the areas, capacity, stay rate, enrollment, access, neighborhood continuity, while ensuring boundaries aligned with parcel data.
 

This proposal is recommending attendance boundary changes that will impact areas in and around south Hillsborough County (effective August 2020) to relieve overcrowding at Barrington Middle School by reassigning students to Rodgers Middle School.

 

Communicating with key stakeholders is an important part of the school redistricting process. Parent/community input meetings were held on December 17, 2019, and January 13, 2020, and public comment sheets were collected, compiled, and reviewed by staff. 

 

Attached is an explanation of the process, a summary of stakeholder outreach, enrollment projections for 2020-2021, and maps depicting the proposed revised attendance boundaries of the two schools.   All public comments are available for School Board review.

No financial impact.