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APS East Aurora Attendance Area Committee

APS Approves Attendance Areas After careful consideration, Aurora Public Schools has approved new attendance areas beginning in the 2010-11 school year. Attendance boundaries have also been established for the P-8 and high school, currently under construction on the P-20 Campus. To view a summary of the attendance area changes and maps showing the new attendance areas, click on the links below. Last spring APS established a committee to evaluate attendance boundaries for schools in the eastern part of the district. The committee solicited feedback on boundary options at several community meetings held in October and November. APS made the attendance area decision based on community and boundary committee feedback. APS will notify families affected by the attendance area changes this month. Beginning in January, the district will also hold a series of community meetings for families with students who will be attending the new P-20 Campus schools. The P-8 will open in August 2010 and include 9th grade students during the first year of operation. The high school will open in August 2011 with 9th and 10th grade students. 2010-11 Attendance Area Summary 2010-11 K-8 Attendance Area Map 2010-11 High School Attendance Area Map Community Survey Results The charts below summarize the responses from community members who attended either the open houses or completed surveys on the APS Web site regarding the possible scenarios for the East Aurora Attendance Area. The committee collected and analyzed more than 130 surveys. The community survey results indicate that scenario 3 and scenario 4 were favored by the public who responded. Approximately 28% of surveys indicated scenario 4 as the preferred scenario, while about 26% of surveys listed scenario 3 as the favorite. Scenario 1A was the next highest ranked by surveys at approximately 16%. Additionally, 78% of surveys indicated that they either supported or were indifferent about scenario 3 and 81% supported or were indifferent about scenario 4. The greatest support of the other four scenarios was scenario 2a which was supported or marked as indifferent on 54% of surveys. View the East Aurora Attendance Area survey results. View the East Aurora Attendance Area committee recommendation. APS has formed a committee to develop attendance areas for the new P-8 school and high school to be constructed on the P-20 campus site. The boundary process also includes several APS schools in east Aurora. The committee goals include: Establish an attendance area for the new P-8, scheduled to open in August 2010. Establish an attendance area for the new high school, scheduled to open in August 2011. Assess the current attendance areas and capacities of the following schools and adjust boundaries as needed: Altura Elementary Clyde Miller Elementary Side Creek Elementary Aurora Frontier K-8 Murphy Creek K-8 East Middle School Mrachek Middle School Gateway High School Hinkley High School Rangeview High School Preserve a sense of community and neighborhood schools. The committee will meet during the spring and fall of 2009 to analyze enrollment data and trends and develop feasible attendance area scenarios. Later in the fall, the committee will hold open houses to share the scenarios and gather feedback from parents, staff and community members. Based on the data collected and community input, the committee will present recommendations to the APS Board of Education in December 2009. If the board approves the recommendations, new boundaries would go into effect for the 2010-11 school year. The attendance area committee includes parents, community and staff members.	Latest News APS Approves Attendance Areas East Attendance Area Community Survey Results
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Virginia Court, Jewell, Century, Tollgate and Wheeling Adopt New Boundaries
Enrollment changes at Virginia Court, Jewell, Century, Tollgate and Wheeling elementary schools have led to capacity issues. Some of the schools are below enrollment capacity while others are overcrowded.	View the adopted boundary changes for Virginia Court, Jewell, Century, Tollgate and Wheeling.
To balance enrollment, APS has formed a committee to analyze elementary school attendance areas at these schools. The committee included parents, community and staff members. The goals of the committee were to:
Assess the current attendance areas Assess current enrollment and building capacities Review and assess the academic and nonacademic programs at each school Reduce dependency on mobiles Create attendance area scenarios that foster neighborhood schools and minimize the need for APS transportation
In November, the committee presented attendance area recommendations to parents, community members and staff for feedback. After careful consideration, the Aurora Public Schools Board of Education approved the proposed elementary school attendance area changes for these five elementary schools.
Attendance areas for middle and high schools did not change.
View a map of the new boundary changes.

BOE Approves Attendance Area Options for Schools North of Alameda Ave.
After careful consideration, the board of education recently approved attendance area adjustments for many elementary schools north of Alameda Avenue. The board has developed a map showing these adjustments. When viewing the map, please click on the icon in the lower left corner to increase its size.
Over the past several months an APS committee studied attendance areas at many elementary schools north of Alameda Avenue. The committee presented attendance area options to the public in a series of open houses. During these open houses, parents and community members provided feedback on attendance area options.
Based on this feedback, the committee presented attendance area recommendations to the APS Board of Education on Jan. 17. The board made a decision on the recommendations at the Feb. 7 meeting.

Enrollment changes have led to capacity issues at many elementary schools north of Alameda Ave. Some of the schools are below enrollment capacity while others are overcrowded.
Bond funds have allowed APS to rebuild and expand Paris Elementary School and the school site at 875 Peoria St. These improvements will help us to alleviate some overcrowding in the area.
To balance enrollment, APS has formed a committee to analyze elementary attendance areas. The committee includes parents, community and staff members. The goals of the committee are to: Assess the current attendance areas and building capacities of all north area elementary schools. Determine attendance areas for a remodeled Paris Elementary School. Determine attendance areas for the school located at 875 Peoria St. Establish a boundary process for future growth areas. Reduce the dependency on mobile classrooms. Maintain neighborhood schools wherever possible.

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