School boundary proposals split C'ville Central, Wickham

Iowa City Community School District leaders have presented the school board with an initial boundary scenario that split Coralville Central and Wickham elementary students between two junior high and high schools.

The 2017-18 proposals assigned all students attending South East Junior High to City High, all students attending Northwest Junior High to West High and all students attending North Central Junior High to Liberty High.

However, students attending Coralville Central and Wickham elementaries either would attend Northwest and West or North Central and Liberty, depending on where they live.

The school board on Tuesday also called for two new sets of secondary school boundary scenarios to examine during a March 10 work session.

Board members asked that the new scenarios be geographically compact and efficient. They asked for one proposal that does not account for current elementary and junior high boundaries and one that does.

The initial proposals included the following elementary school assignments:

•Alexander: Northwest, West

•Borlaug: Northwest, West

•Coralville Central: Northwest and West or North Central and Liberty

•Garner: North Central, Liberty

•Grant: North Central, Liberty

•Hills: Northwest, West

•Retiring Hoover: South East, City

•New Hoover: South East, City

•Horn: Northwest, West

•Kirkwood: North Central, Liberty

•Lemme: South East, City

•Lincoln: Northwest, West

•Longfellow: South East, City

•Lucas: South East, City

•Mann: South East, City

•Penn: North Central, Liberty

•Shimek: South East, City

•Twain: Northwest, West

•Van Allen: North Central, Liberty

•Weber: Northwest, West

•Wickham: Northwest and West or North Central and Liberty

•Wood: South East, City

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