HOUSTON – Ten elementary schools in the Houston Independent School District will see a boundary adjustment for the 2015-2016 school year.
The HISD Board of Education voted Thursday to approve two proposals that would adjust neighborhood attendance boundaries. The change is an effort to reduce classroom overcrowding.
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The elementary schools that will see the change are: Anderson, Ashford, Askew, Bush, Daily, Emerson, Shadowbriar, Tinsley and Walnut Bend elementary schools and Halpin Early Childhood Center.
Ashford and Shadowbriar will both become comprehensive elementary schools offering pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Currently, the two schools share an attendance zone. Ashford will retain an attendance zone in the 2015-2016 school year, but Shadowbriar will not. HISD said Shadowbriar will offer special programming designed to draw students.
HISD said the adjustments are in response to state law, which requires kindergarten through fourth-grade classes to have no more than 22 students per classroom. The district said classes with more than 22 students have to request state waivers and that HISD had to submit almost 1,500 waiver requests in the 2014-2015 school year.