Overview
- District leaders cited years of enrollment decline, noting roughly 15,000 fewer students over the past 7 to 10 years and about 20,000 over 25 years.
- Under the recommendation, Eastwood Elementary would close and its boundary would merge with nearby Oakridge Elementary due to capacity and location advantages at Oakridge.
- Morningside Elementary would transition to a K–5 French dual immersion school, with its neighborhood boundary reassigned to nearby schools such as Rosecrest and Driggs.
- Officials said only about 125 of the roughly 170 students living in Eastwood’s boundary attend the school, which they argue strains staffing and volunteer resources at a small campus.
- An earlier idea to consolidate Advanced Learning Center programs at a single site has been dropped, with the district instead exploring regional locations for those services.