I swear our school system rezones every year. It's awful and very nerve-wracking for parents with kids in public county schools!
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Not really. I kinda hope they do because we're just bordering on a top district. Ours is really good but neighbors that are just a few blocks over are in a even better one! In my dream world that will happen before the girls enter high school.
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No! Omg, how stressful would that be! We moved here for the school district, also our city has open enrollment.
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It's weird ... we bought our place 5 years ago and the high school zone we were in was pretty bad... (like probably send our kids to private school bad) but then sometime since then (we think 3 years ago) we got rezone to a *WAY* better high school. It is stressful! I hope we don't get rezoned to the bad high school again before LO's go to school. Though I kind of think we were put in the wrong zone initially because we were a new development. *crosses fingers*
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Not frequently but every school in our county is rated or 9 or 10 so it wouldn't really bother us.
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It hasn't ever happened that I'm aware. We in part live where we do because of the schools so depending on the change it would be upsetting.
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School selection is crazy here. It's part based on location and walking distance, but it's a lottery so you don't know what school you will actually get until the May before your LO enters kindergarten. Even if you live next door to the best school in the city there is no guarantee that you LO will be able to go there.
Among other reasons, that's part of the reason we will likely move out of the city before she is in school.
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No, but there's only 2 English elementary schools in my town so it's pretty set in stone based on where you live. If for some reason you want to go to the other school that you are not zoned for, you just have to apply for a transfer and they will grant it, providing you are okay with getting your child to and from school on your own.
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Nope, not at all. We're also right in the middle of our town and for zoned schools we only have one elementary, one middle school and one high school. So for as long as we live in this town there won't be any variance in the schools.
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I don't think so, but I know there are plans to open some new schools and shuffle the zones around based on that. A new school will supposedly be opening in our neighborhood right around the time LO heads to kindergarten and we're about equidistant from that one and the existing one which we'd assumed she would attend. Not sure exactly what will happen but I'm not too worried right now because I'm skeptical that the other school will actually open on time anyway, and I'm pretty sure we'd be able to choose where to send her.
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I don't think ours ever did (growing up) until they built a new middle school..but it just changed location, really, not even zones. ha.
our current town is a town over. I'm not sure if they have or not. I sorta hope they do before the girls start, because we are closer to my preferred elementary but for some reason they'll be sent to a different one that I don't love.
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I currently dislike our overcrowded district but we have a few years to decide on where to buy our house. It will be further out in the suburbs and far from our job areas for sure.
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Nope but they did recently. Some of our neighbors weren't too happy but we are in a good district.
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No, but I live in a small district: three elementaries, two middles/jr high, one senior high. I wouldn't mind a rezone because right now the daycare branch that is closer to home doesn't bus to the elementary school LO will go to.
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No - our neighborhood has actually been petitioning to get ourselves redistricted to a better elementary school but we keep getting denied.
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The school district I work in has rezoned twice in the 9 years I've been there. It always happens due to new development, with more people moving in they have to shift the boundaries so the schools can accommodate the number of kids that are estimated in their zone. A new school is being built in my district as well so a few of the elementary schools will be rezoned again in a couple years. There is just so much new housing going up, it's insane. Where I live our middle school was rezoned because an elementary school now became a k-8 so that is now our home middle school which I'm happy about because it's so much closer.
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Wow that sounds like a big issue. We also have school of choice. So you can drive your kids to any school assuming they aren't full. And if you are zoned for a failing school you always have the option to drive elsewhere.
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Yes, to a crazy degree! (Are you in NC, too?) Thankfully we live in an area/neighborhood that isn't typically affected.
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They haven't since 2007 I think. Our cluster is decent, but our resides school isn't. If we stay here, we may try to move closer to our preferred school or petition to be sent there instead of our resides.
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Crazy!! We only get rezoned when a new school is built in the area.
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No. They probably would not rezone here unless they closed an elementary school due to declining students. We are currently zoned for my preferred schools at all 3 levels but our whole state has school of choice so we could always do another district.
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No, but it needs rezoning. We drive past one elementary school to get to the one D goes to. Plus, one is much closer going the other direction.
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No-people would flip out if they did!
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I thought it was somewhat often but definitely not every year! It doesn't really matter too much to me, we are barely in the district so I know the other schools are too far for us to ever be sent there. There's one other elementary school close to us so I hope that doesn't change but it wouldn't be that big of a deal to me, just prefer the one we're currently assigned to.
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I think there are minor changes pretty often, but our neighborhood school isn't likely to change as it's the closest and named after our neighborhood.
The other elementary schools in the area are good, so it wouldn't be a huge deal if ours changed, but it might cause us to enroll him at a choice school with a language immersion program. We're considering doing that anyway, but we also like the idea of him being able to walk to our neighborhood school.
This is all way in the future as he's only about to turn two and will be almost six when he starts kindergarten thanks to being born after the school cutoff!
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Ours changes frequently but mostly because it is a very large district with a rapidly growing population, so rezoning has to happen to accommodate new schools every year.
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