The Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Board Master Plan/Boundary Committee will meet next week to continue their work examining current school attendance boundaries and how they can be improved to better serve all of PUSD’s students and schools. The discussions at these committee meetings will lead to recommendations to the full board about the realignment of attendance boundaries for district schools. The next meeting will take place Tuesday, July 29 at 6 p.m. in the Elbie J. Hickambottom Board Room (Room 236), 351 South Hudson Avenue, Pasadena. Click here for the July 29 meeting agenda.

Members of the PUSD community and residents of Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre are invited to attend and provide input on potential school attendance boundary changes at the committee meetings. Parent and community input is critical to the committee as they develop their recommendations.

With an eye toward shifting residential demographics within PUSD and the lopsided distribution of students at district campuses, the PUSD Board of Education created a Master Plan/Boundary Committee to study possible school attendance boundary scenarios and other master planning issues for the district. The board subcommittee is chaired by Dr. Mikala Rahn with Ms. Kimberly Kenne and Dr. Elizabeth Pomeroy also serving on the committee.

This limited term subcommittee has been tasked with the following:

• Examine feeder patterns and enrollment data, population data and school configurations

• Maximize school size/facilities, specialty programs and neighborhood capacity

• Examine where specialty programs are needed based on district value statements

• Examine strategies for increased enrollment at secondary level

• Focus on strategies for under-capacity, small schools

• Community outreach and public input on various boundary scenarios

The committee will develop recommendations for the full board by September 2014 for school attendance boundaries starting in the 2015-16 school year.

Event: PUSD Master Plan/Boundary Committee Meeting

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 29 at 6 p.m.

Location: Elbie J. Hickambottom Board Room (Room 236), 351 South Hudson Avenue, Pasadena.

For more information, visit http://pusd.us/.