Meadowvale, Twin Lakes, Parker and Lincoln zones examined

by Rachel Minske
Contributing Writer
The District 728 Facilities Usage Committee proposed three options to resolve overcapacity issues for the central area:
•Option A: This choice would move 63 students from Parker to Lincoln and move 92 students from Twin Lakes to Parker at the elementary level. At the middle school level, this option would move 32 students from Salk to VandenBerge. This option stresses the importance of keeping neighborhoods together and limits the impact to free and reduced lunch concentrations.
•Option B: This option would move 63 students from Parker to Lincoln and move 91 from Twin Lakes to Parker at the elementary level. Thirty-two students would move from Salk to VandenBerge at the middle school level. This choice would result in greater socioeconomic equity between impacted schools while also limiting impact to free and reduced lunch concentrations.
•Option C: A combination of options A and B, this choice would provide the most capacity to Twin Lakes, which is an area predicted to have the highest growth. This option would move 183 students out of Twin Lakes and 63 out of Parker. It would move 91 new students into Parker and 155 into Lincoln. Seventy-nine students would move from Salk to VandenBerge at the middle school level. This option was the committee’s preference and appears to be stable over time, even with growth in the district’s central area.