After years of bitter controversy, the Department of Education will proceed with a major rezoning proposal for an Upper West Side school district to increase diversity and ease overcrowding, officials said Wednesday.

Amid mass parental objections, the DOE is pushing to address school segregation in District 3 through a slew of new measures — including the relocation of a school 16 blocks uptown.

The DOE — which has presented several versions of the rezoning plan over roughly two years — will formally submit the final proposal at a meeting Wed­nes­day night.

Among other shifts, the plan would rezone several blocks now served by the popular but crowded and predominantly white PS 199 on West 70th Street.

Kids who live on those rezoned blocks would then be slotted for PS 191, a primarily low-income, chronically struggling school that draws most of its students from nearby projects.

Currently located on West 60th Street, PS 191 would move to a new nearby building that would allow for growth.

The building it would vacate would then be filled by mostly white PS 452, which would also expand by absorbing kids from the nearby area.

“District 3 is home to great schools, passionate principals and invested families, and I’m proud to support the high-quality instruction that students are receiving,” said District 3 Superintendent Ilene Altschul. “However, longstanding concerns in the district must be addressed, and this proposal will address these concerns while best serving the needs of all families.”

But some impacted parents — including an overwhelming majority at 452 — doggedly fought their relocation, arguing that their thriving school is falling prey to city hall’s ideological imperatives.

“We are disgusted by this whole process,” said one 452 mom. “The DOE should be ashamed of itself for the way they’ve conducted this process in the dark. There has been meeting after meeting but the sense is there’s nothing we can do.”



The school’s principal, Scott Parker, supported the relocation plan in a statement Wednesday.

The move gives the school “the opportunity to strengthen the educational opportunities we can offer to the diverse and dynamic children in the southern part of District 3,” he said. “We look forward to welcoming even more children and families into our community next year.”

Despite that position, 452 parents have vowed to take their case to court to block the unwelcome migration.

“We spent too long building this school into what it is to let them do this so easily,” one parent said. “It’s not about diversity, it’s about disrupting something that’s working.”