30-member Task Force
December 2019
Board Guidelines for use in establishing School Boundaries
- Balancing of economic status across secondary schools
- Ensure equitable space for programs in District schools
- Maintain geographically balanced placement of special education programs
- Provide safe walking routes to school throughout the District
- Strive to ensure equity in the maximum amount of time similar‐situated students must spend on a bus
- Economize transportation costs by not bussing students out of natural walk areas wherever possible
- Reassign student attendance areas in order to maintain maximum cost efficiency in the District’s funds
- Keep contiguous neighborhoods together wherever possible
- Ensure that students will move into middle and high schools with their neighborhood classmates wherever possible
- Analyze 5‐year city growth patterns to attempt to preserve newly drawn boundaries for a minimum of five years
- Set attendance areas according to anticipated growth or aging out of neighborhoods
Task Force Meetings
Monday, January 20 at 5:30 to 7:30pm at IPC
Wednesday, January 29 at 5:30 to 7:30pm at IPC
Wednesday, February 19 at 5:30 to 7:30pm at IPC
These meetings are open to the public.
During these meetings, enrollment information will be shared along with growth projections for the future. The School Board has approved guidelines by which options will be developed. These guidelines include creating schools that are diverse, use natural boundaries where possible, result in efficient use of resources and keep student safety as a top priority.
Options considered and recommended by the task force will then go before the public for comment. The District will record those comments and make reasonable adjustments. These meetings will consist of mostly of public comment.
Thursday, March 12 at Memorial Middle School (1401 S. Sertoma Ave.)
- 5:30 to 6:30pm
- 5:30 to 6:30pm
- 5:30 to 6:30pm
- 5:30 to 6:30pm
- 5:30 to 6:30pm
Sioux Falls School District
Website: https://www.sf.k12.sd.us
Location: 201 East 38th Street, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Phone: (605) 367-7900
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SiouxFallsSchoolDistrict?fref=ts
Twitter: @SFSchools