College Station school board members visited nearly three hours Tuesday night about changing attendance boundaries of fifth through 12th grade campuses.
There will be a second meeting next Monday at 5 p.m.
Dominating Tuesday’s discussion was how to move eighth graders from three buildings into two high schools. Central office administrators were directed to develop how extracurricular activities would be handled if the population of all three middle schools were divided.
That’s after coaches and fine arts directors supported all A&M Consolidated middle school (AMCMS) students going to Consolidated High, all students from the yet to be named third middle school going to College Station High, and those at College Station middle school being split between the two high schools.
Michael Wesson was one of two board members who took exception to letters from those representing coaches and fine arts directors.
The board also wants to know the impact of having students living west of Wellborn Road attend Oakwood Intermediate, Consolidated Middle School, and Consolidated High School.
Another request is the impact of moving students living in Nantucket and Indian Lakes to AMCMS and Consol. That generated an exchange between Jeff Harris, who asked for further study, and Michael Schaefer, who opposed the move due to the distance those students would travel. Harris and Carol Barrett said it was their duty as elected members to investigate the option.
The board also wants an estimate of how many high school students qualify for grandfathering and the impact that could have on both high schools remaining in the same UIL classification.
Another question raised by the board related to UIL was the district’s bonding capacity as consideration is given to a phase two addition at College Station High while there is room at Consolidated for an additional 600 students.
The board also discussed the prospects of another rezoning in as little as three years, what will trigger the timing, and the possibility they will make decisions without a committee recommendation.
The board went through some of the 24 reports compiled during this process.
Click HERE to access the 24 reports from the CSISD website.
