GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Would Green Bay area residents want a new school or a change in attendance boundary lines?
The Green Bay Area Public School District would like to hear your feedback on that. District officials have put together a survey on facilities needs which is available online in English and Spanish.
If you’d like a paper copy of the survey, they’re available in both languages at each of the District’s schools and the downtown District office at 200 S. Broadway.
The information gathered will be used by the Board of Education and the citizen-led Facilities Task Force to determine recommendations and prioritize solutions. The Board will then consider bringing forward those solutions to the most urgent concerns in an April 2017 referendum.
The survey is the latest in a series of engagement efforts by the district as part of what it called “Envisioning a brighter future.” Public informational meetings were recently held, and a task force has also been reviewing the issue.
Overcrowding on the district’s east side is the primary focus of the questions. It describes the situation this way:
“Currently, there are several elementary schools that exceed their target capacity on the east side of the District. (Target capacity is the point where a building functions optimally as an educational facility, allowing for scheduling and enrollment flexibility.) In addition, Edison Middle School and Preble High School are also over target capacity. Enrollment projections for the District show steady, slow growth, which means that without some action, the overcrowding at east side schools will continue. In addition, both the City of Green Bay and the Village of Bellevue have recently approved new residential developments that could impact east side schools.”
Some of the questions asked are:
- To address overcrowding on the east side, I would support the District’s changing attendance boundaries at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
- I would support replacing Baird Elementary with a new K–5 school.
- I would support a combination of expanding east side elementary schools and changing attendance boundaries to ease overcrowding at Danz, Sullivan, and Eisenhower Elementary Schools.
- I would support a new K–8 school on the east side to address overcrowding at the elementary schools and Edison Middle School.
- I would support a new K-5 school and a new 6-8 (middle school) on the east side to address overcrowding at the elementary schools and Edison Middle School.
- I would support changing attendance boundaries to existing high schools in the District to address overcrowding at Preble.
- I would support expanding Preble High School by adding more classrooms to address overcrowding.
- I would support the construction of a new comprehensive high school as a long-term solution in a future referendum.
