Fayette County Public Schools’ redistricting committee held a meeting Thursday on high school zoning.
Their computer boundary model, with the planned addition of a new school, focused on reducing over-capacity schools, as well as equalizing the amount of students on free and reduced lunch plans. After many small adjustments to borders, the plan would have schools at 92% capacity overall and about 41% of free/reduced lunch students at each facility. However, Chief Operating Officer Mary Wright said the calculations are very much preliminary.
“The committee hasn’t even agreed on exactly where they anticipate the lines ultimately being drawn, and all of that won’t fall into place until we’ve taken a look at elementary schools in concert with the high schools to make sure that we’re addressing feeder pattern issues as well as the other factors," she said.
Until that analysis takes place, Wright says the group isn’t ready to make a recommendation. The committee’s next meeting takes place at 4:30 on November 13th in the FCPS administration building.
