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Welcome to the Licking Heights Local Schools Redistricting Process website. All information related to this process, including all materials and presentations, can be found in the resources section of this website.
Please click the 2024-25 Approved Boundaries tab on the left to view the boundaries approved at the 2/20/24 Board of Education meeting.
Please note that this process did not make any changes to the preschool, intermediate, middle, or high school boundaries. If you currently reside within the District, your address will remain in the District.
2024-25 Approved Boundaries
The final boundary recommendation was approved by the Board of Education at their regularly scheduled meeting on February 20th. The approved boundaries for the 2024-25 school year are a combination of Options 1 and 3; this boundary plan was created based on the feedback received in the options survey as well as the criteria that the community responded to earlier in this process. The approved boundaries do not split any neighborhoods, assign 62% of students to their geographically closest school, provides balanced utilizations, leaves room for growth in the boundaries expected to grow, and moves 47% of elementary students.
Thank you to all who participated in this process!
Process & Timeline
Demographic Studies: Housing and Enrollment Projections are currently being developed, and will be available to review later this spring.
Data Review and Analysis: Data pertaining to Licking Heights Local Schools will be reviewed and analyzed throughout the process. Datasets pertaining to this process will be available under the Resources page of this website once available.
Boundary Planning Criteria: A survey was available to community members from December 12th-January 2nd to provide feedback on the criteria (or factors) that should be used when drawing boundary scenarios.
Scenario Creation: This involves creating boundary scenarios. The feedback received from the Boundary Planning Criteria survey will be used to help inform boundary scenarios. Boundary scenarios will be available for community review and feedback early in February.
Community Outreach: Along with keeping this website updated throughout this process, community meetings were held on February 1st for community members to come and speak with district staff and the consultant about the scenarios that are presented. The feedback that was received during this time was used to inform the final recommendation.
Scenario Revisions: Boundary scenarios were revised based on stakeholder feedback received during the community meetings.
Board Discussion & Action: Once a recommendation is finalized, it will be presented to the Board of Education for discussion and action. The recommendation will be announced at the February 20th Board meeting.
Boundary Options
On January 30, 2024, three boundary options were made available to the community to provide their feedback. Multiple community meetings were held on February 1st in various locations for community members and staff to ask questions and provide feedback. An online survey was also available for those who were unable to attend a community meeting. The survey was available for two weeks.
The information below shows the different boundary options presented for feedback.
Resources
- Background Data Packet: This document contains information related to the current state of the schools and redistricting.
- Boundary Criteria Survey Results Report: This document contains the full results of the boundary criteria survey, which was open from December 12, 2023 – January 2, 2024.
- Board Presentation (1/9/2024): This is the presentation given to the Board at their regular meeting on January 9, 2024. The presentation gives an overview of the process, background data, and the results of the boundary criteria survey.
- Boundary Options (1/30/2024): Three boundary options were presented to the community for feedback tab
- Boundary Options Feedback Results Report: This document shows the feedback that was received regarding the three boundary options presented to the community for feedback.
- 2024-25 Approved Boundaries: On February 20th the Board of Education voted to approve boundaries for the 2024-25 school year.
Frequently Asked Questions
The new boundaries will go into effect at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year (August 2024).
The boundaries for the 2024-25 school year will be approved at the Board of Education’s February 20 board meeting. Families will receive communications throughout the process, and will be made aware of the final decision after it is approved by the Board.
Community meetings will be held throughout the day on February 1st. Community members are invited to come in and ask questions about the process and options and provide feedback. An online survey is available to those who are unable to attend the meetings.
Yes. Each elementary (South Elementary, West Elementary, and the new elementary) will house grades K-4 starting in the 2024-25 school year.
Yes. Both enrollment and housing projections will be considered in this process. Planning boundaries with longevity in mind is important.
No. If you currently reside within the Licking Heights Local Schools boundary, you will remain within the District. This process will only adjust the elementary boundary lines within the District. You can use the boundary locator tool to determine if your address is located within the Licking Heights Local School District.
Yes. This process will only change the elementary school boundaries. The intermediate, middle, and high school will not be impacted. The preschool will not be impacted either; anyone residing in the District can register their student in the preschool program (space permitting).
The capacity of a school, or the number of students it can support, changes based on the programming within that building. The needs of the students within each school changes every year. This impacts the number of classrooms needed for special programming, which then impacts the number of students that the school can effectively educate. For example, a special education classroom can hold between 8 and 12 students, while a first through fourth grade classroom can hold 24-26 students. The more special education classrooms there are in a building, the fewer students that school can accommodate. Other examples of programs that use classrooms but cannot hold a full classroom load are Title 1, resource or intervention, and occupational/physical therapy.
Where students end up for the 2024-25 school year is entirely based on the creation of the new elementary boundaries. Depending on the new boundaries created during this process, some students will remain at their current school; however, if students are assigned to a new building, they will be required to attend school in their newly assigned building.
The district is aware that it will be difficult for students to attend school in another building. Our students share with us all the time that they love their school. The district will focus on providing transition and orientation programming for students who will be moving to a new school building because of the redistricting. Additionally, we will have multiple Open House opportunities for students in the fall to tour their school before the school year officially starts. Our District Office is open all year and staff will be available throughout the summer to assist families who may have questions during the transition.
Current teachers and staff will be distributed amongst our three elementary schools. We have started the process of realigning staff, and current staff have completed preference surveys for the 2024-25 academic year. Staff will be distributed based on their desire, our district needs, and a balance in overall school staff experience. New staff will be hired as needed to fill new/open positions in both the new school and the existing elementary schools, which is the usual hiring process each year.