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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ridgeview will almost certainly be closed and its area merged into Lakelands Park.  [/quote]

Ridgeview has 20 acres and more than 700 students. I don't know that this is a good one to close. No way can Lakelands Park absorb that number of students, even with boundary changes involving more schools.[/quote]

Ridgeview’s current population is 733 students, yes. However, after the boundary change, by 2031, its projected population will be just 416, giving a 44% utilization rate.

That same year, in 2031, Lakelands Park is projected to have 613 students, giving a 55% utilization rate.

There’s no way the county will keep two middle schools in one district with those utilization rates.

Lakelands Park has a capacity of 1,122 students. If they are merged in 2031 you get 416 (Ridgeview) + 613 (Lakelands) = 1,029 = 91.7% utilization rate. That’s exactly what this board will be looking for.

So Ridgeview looks like an obvious closure and could become holding school. [/quote]

Just to add on/clarify the comment, with Crown High School opening, Fields Road ES, which had 453 students in 2024-2025, is planned to be reassigned to Frost MS to have all of the schools in a cluster align with the proposed regions.  And with nothing else filling into Ridgeview, this leads to the 44 percent utilization rate mentioned by the pp.[/quote]

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