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Oswego District 308 proposes school boundary changes to address continued growth · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego District three eight proposes school boundary changes to address
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  continued growth. Written by Eric Shelkoff, this article is being
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  read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  In the face of continued growth, Oswego School District three
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  eight is seeking to adjust the boundaries for three elementary
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  schools starting this fall. School board members are set to
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  vote on the boundary changes at their January twenty sixth
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  board meeting. The district's immediate concerns are at Grande Park
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  and Southbury elementary schools, which are approaching capacity. The boundary
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  changes also include two junior high proposals. The district covers
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  about sixty eight square miles, with students not only from Oswego,
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  but also from Aurora, Joliet, Montgomery, Plainfield, and Yorkville. When
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  schools reach or exceed capacity, this is not an ideal
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  educational environment. Eight Deputy Superintendent Heatherkincaid told us we Go
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  School Board members at their January twelfth board meeting, we
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  have to start making decisions, she said. If we do
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  not make any changes, we would have no choice but
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  to exceed the actual square footage of our building and
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  approach some potential mobile units. Grande Park can accommodate six
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  hundred idiot students, and Southbury's capacity is seven hundred and
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  ninety seven students. Under the current boundaries, Gronde Park's enrollment
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  is expected to reach six hundred and forty five students
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  by the twenty twenty seven to twenty eight school year.
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  Southbury is expected to have an enrollment of seven hundred
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  and fifty four students by that same year and eight
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  hundred and forty eight by the twenty twenty eight to
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  twenty nine school year. As proposed, students in Auburn Lakes
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  subdivision in Plainfield would be transferred from Grande Park Elementary
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  School in Plainfield to Wolfe's Crossing Elementary School in Aurora.
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  They historically have gone to Wolf's c Crossing, Kincaid said
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  in a previous student assignment move, they were moved to
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  Grande Park. Students in the Hudson Point and Emblem communities
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  in Oswego would be transferred from Southbury Elementary School in
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  Oswego to Churchill Elementary School in Oswego. Geographically, proximity wise
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  is about half the distance from Southbury to Churchill, Kincaid said,
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  roots will be essentially cut in half time wise. With
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  the proposed changes, Southbury Elementary School is projected to have
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  seven hundred and ninety four students in school year twenty
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  twenty nine to thirty and eight hundred and forty five
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  students in school year twenty thirty to thirty one. In turn,
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  Grande Park Elementary School is projected to have five hundred
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  and seventy eight students in school year twenty twenty nine
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  to thirty and five hundred and sixty nine students in
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  school year twenty thirty to thirty one. As part of
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  the boundary changes, students in the Redwood Oswego subdivision would
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  be transferred from Hunt Club Elementary School to Fox Chase
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  Elementary School in Oswego. The plan also calls for students
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  in the Auburn Lakes subdivision to be transferred from Murphy
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  Junior High School in Plainfield to bed Narsig Junior High
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  School in Aurora, which is next to Wolfe's Crossing Elementary School.
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  That feeder system would stay consistent. Kincaid said, students in
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  the Hudson Point and Emblem communities in Oswego would transfer
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  from Murphy Junior High School and Plainfield to Plank Junior
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  High School in Oswego. It also is much closer, similar
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  to the move from Southbury to Churchill. She said, more
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  boundary changes are proposed for Southbury in the future. The
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  recommendations do not put any other school over capacity, and
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  it does bring Grande Park down out of that high
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  ninety percent capacity. Kincaid said, we will need to continue
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  to watch the Grande Park and Hunt Club area as
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  potential new growth comes. Additional boundary realignment for other parts
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  of the district could take place starting in the fall
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  of twenty twenty seven. Students affected by the boundary changes
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  would be able to submit a form to stay at
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  their current school for the twenty twenty sixth twenty twenty
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  seven school year.