GUHSD Boundary Committee Report and Recommendations July 14, 2011

1. GUHSD Boundary CommitteeReport andRecommendationsJuly 14, 2011

2. Overview • Current Boundaries enacted in 2000/01 School Year • Boundary Committee established to address District-wide issues: • Potential construction of new high school • Demographic shifts in student populations over last ten years • ECV up 26%, SHS down 24% • Disparities in student enrollment • GHHS has 1,248 more students than SHS • Need to adapt to charter schools • Process • Committee formed of representative from each school, from the community, and district administration. Chaired by community leader. • District-provided demographer supplied and analyzed internal and external data. • Meetings held up to twice monthly since March • Considered full range of options open to the District consistent with its Board-mandated mission.

3. Mission Statement Recognizing that school attendance area boundaries are the greatest single determinant of where a student will attend high school and that they are an important factor in the school district’s planning and budget processes, the mission of the Grossmont, High School 12 Boundary Committee is to suggest boundaries for the Grossmont Union High School District’s attendance areas and to include boundaries for a twelfth high school in Alpine. Principles that will guide the Boundary Process include: • Safety and Convenience: To minimize the time spent each day by students and transportation staff, traveling to and from school. • Diversity: To maximize academic, economic, social and cultural diversity at each school. • Neighborhood Integrity:  To the maximum extent possible, allow neighbors to attend the same school. • Local Needs: To listen to the voice of each community with respect to the education of their children. • Responsible Management: To maximize the use the District’s human resources and facilities and to respect the District’s fiscal constraints with respect to transportation costs, infrastructure impact, staffing and administration • Foresight and Flexibility: To consider what the District’s future needs may be with respect to changing demographics and educational trends. The goal of the Committee is to identify effective and long-lasting boundary recommendations for the Board of Trustees to consider that will meet the needs of the students, communities and the District using the guiding principles above.

4. Summary The Committee has considered the possibility that HS 12 may not be constructed and has thus formulated two boundary recommendations. The Committee has also formulated recommendations regarding school capacity and the District’s open enrollment policy. The Committee’s final recommendations were unanimous with one abstention.

5. Boundary Model 9 • Nine comprehensive High Schools-No HS12 • Charter Boundaries eliminated • 14 Transition Areas (TAs) • -- TA is region moved from one school attendance area to another • 2,828 students to different high schools (in TAs) • 848 students in option areas will lose option • Disparity from highest to lowest-attended school reduced from 1,248 to a projected 450 students • Estimate negative transportation impact of 24% more eligible riders

6. This model does not include 323 Alpine charter school students

8. Boundary Model HS 12 • Ten comprehensive High Schools including HS12 • Charter Boundaries eliminated • 13 TAs and 2 Conditional Option Areas • 2,407 students to different high schools • 288 students in option areas • Disparity from highest to lowest-attended school reduced from 1,248 to a projected 398 students • Estimate positive transportation impact of 2.7% fewer eligible riders

9. This model includes 326 Alpine and 4 Blossom Valley charter students

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11. Model HS 12 Issues • New Students in District • Estimate 80 new students in the District over four years if HS 12 is built. • Based on Steele Canyon experience where residents increased by 30% (400 students) from SY 99/00 to 04/05. • Factors leading to growth were: • Natural Growth • New Development • Address Borrowing • Movement from outside the District • Recruitment of Private and Charter students • In case of HS 12 • Natural Growth and New Development = 0 • Address Borrowing = 0. • → Limited by policy. Within District. • Movement from Outside the District = 40 students over four years. • → Modeled on SCHS experience and area’s rural nature. • Private & non-District Charter Students = 40 students over four years. • → Large private school population Recovery of Charter Students if HS 12 is constructed Due to geographic factors the District may recover from charter schools 45 students a year or 180 students after four years by building HS12. If GUHSD offsets perceived advantages of charters that gain might be as large as a hundred students a year or four hundred overall.

12. Recommendations Boundaries The Boundary Committee recommends the implementation of Model 9 or Model HS12 as presented depending on the decision made regarding the construction of HS12 School Capacity: • Open Enrollment: The Boundary Committee recommends that Open Enrollment Limits for each of the District’s comprehensive high schools be recalculated before the start of every school year using prior year’s CBEDs data and that these limits be strictly enforced. It further recommends that these limits not apply to any District high school having an enrollment less than 1,200 students. The Boundary Committee recommends that the target enrollment for each of the District’s Comprehensive High Schools be set at 85% of Future Functional Capacity, based upon propositions H and U construction scheduled for completion by the 2018 SY. Implementation: Both Models: 2012/13 School Year regardless of HS 12 opening date, if constructed. HS12 ramping up year-by-year. No students required to change a school he or she is currently attending.

13. Issues Facing Board • Whether or not to Construct HS12 • Declining Enrollment • Policy on School Capacity • Open Enrollment Policy • Phase in period for new boundaries • When to implement new boundaries