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Students attending one of the nine public elementary schools in the county may attend a different school in the 2020-21 school year, especially if they live within the current attendance boundaries for Jeannette Rankin, Lewis and Clark, Paxson or Rattlesnake elementary schools.

The district is planning to talk about grandfathering in current students. However, students at those four schools, which are at or over enrollment capacity, are the most likely to experience a change to the school they attend based on suggestions by a committee tasked with reviewing the current elementary attendance boundaries.

A total of 17 changes, thus far, are being considered by the committee, which reviewed maps of potential boundary adjustments at a Thursday, March 14 meeting.

Missoula County Public Schools is asking families and community members for feedback on the options at a public open house at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 21 at Russell Elementary School. At the open house, parents can view the options, ask questions, voice concerns and recommend additional adjustments.

The maps of the potential changes are also available online. Although the options are illustrated on several different maps, each change is being considered independently.