GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Green Bay’s school board is forming a new task force to look at the school district’s boundaries.
It’s been 18 years since the Green Bay Area Public School District changed its boundaries.
Katie Maloney, the vice president of the Board of Education, tells FOX 11….
“It has to be practical and it has to work for students.”
In Spring, Green Bay voters passed a $68.5 million referendum to address immediate overcrowding needs at a handful of east side schools. However, there are still concerns, primarily at Preble High School.
Preble is 260 students above its target capacity.
The city’s two west side high schools are both several hundred students below their targeted capacities. Southwest is 362 students below its target capacity. West is 429 students below. East High School is 142 students below its capacity.
“We are looking at how to best utilize the facilities throughout the district, the facilities that we have right now.” said Maloney.
Last year, a facilities task force’s number one recommendation was to revise attendance boundaries to rebalance enrollment.
However, it also recommended building a new high school on the east side.
Maloney says the boundaries task force will discuss all possible solutions.
