PUSD boundary committee meets Thursday

from the Pasadena Unified School District

The Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Board Master Plan/Boundary Committee will meet Thursday to discuss their preliminary school boundary recommendations to the full board. The committee will also continue to examine current school attendance boundaries and how they can be improved to better serve all of PUSD’s students and schools. This will be the final meeting of the committee before a special PUSD Board of Education meeting on September 11 to discuss the district’s school attendance boundaries. The meeting will take place Thursday, August 21 at 6 p.m. in Room 229 at 351 South Hudson Avenue, Pasadena. The agenda for the meeting is attached.

Members of the PUSD community and residents of Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre are invited to attend and provide input on potential school attendance boundary changes at the committee meetings. Parent and community input is critical to the committee as they develop their recommendations.

With an eye toward shifting residential demographics within PUSD and the lopsided distribution of students at district campuses, the PUSD Board of Education created a Master Plan/Boundary Committee to study possible school attendance boundary scenarios and other master planning issues for the district. The board subcommittee is chaired by Dr. Mikala Rahn with Ms. Kimberly Kenne and Dr. Elizabeth Pomeroy also serving on the committee.

This limited term subcommittee has been tasked with the following:

•           Examine feeder patterns and enrollment data, population data and school configurations

•           Maximize school size/facilities, specialty programs and neighborhood capacity

•           Examine where specialty programs are needed based on district value statements

•           Examine strategies for increased enrollment at secondary level

•           Focus on strategies for under-capacity, small schools

•           Community outreach and public input on various boundary scenarios

The committee will develop recommendations for the full board by September 2014 for school attendance boundaries starting in the 2015-16 school year.