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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ What are the headaches associated with keeping MS boundaries the same until the future of SSIMS is decided?[/quote]

Probably the biggest one is that they are really set on wanting 6 regions with hard boundary lines (not just for the HS regional programs but I believe they want to regionalize a variety of internal stuff too), and they have already drawn the lines for that (you can see them in the interactive boundary maps.). Arcola is on one side of the line and Odessa Shannon is on the other, so unless they are willing to be flexible on their plan (which they don't want to be and told Flo Analytics to make sure not to be), Arcola students cannot go to Odessa Shannon for MS.  But if they add them to Sligo and Newport Mill, *and* also keep all the current kids at Sligo and Newport Mill, it's a pretty tight squeeze-- if they split them at Georgia Ave (as in option G) it would bring Sligo up to about 1000 kids (over their capacity of 926), and Newport Mill to about 750 with a capacity of 812.  (They could potentially pick a weirder dividing line to land both middle schools right around their capacity, but with fluctuations year to year would probably run the risk of being over in any given year, especially if enrollment doesn't decline precisely as projected.)[/quote]

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