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Rio Rancho, N.M.
New Mexico's first totally online commuity newspaper was last updated on Monday, May 16, 2009 at 10 p.m.
The Sandoval County Online Reporting Enterprise
Rio Rancho, N.M.
New Mexico's first totally online commuity newspaper was last updated on Monday, May 16, 2009 at 10 p.m.
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02.19.08.RRPS.boundaries
Board decides on elementary boundaries
By Eric Maddy
The SCORE
The Rio Rancho school board, not quite satisfied that its boundary committee's proposed elementary plan provided enough relief to its only school currently in Enchanted Hills, voted Tuesday for a plan that cuts will move more than 225 students from Vista Grande to a new school that will open next year.
The board unanimously approved plan 16A (above), bringing the overcrosded Vista Grande Elementary down to 673 students from its existing total of 915. The shift means Sandia Vista, a new school, will open at 451 students and make Martin Luther King Elementary the largest in the district.
All of the schools except for Vista Grande are built for a student capacity at 800. Vista Grande was built to hold 600 students, but has been using portable buildings to provide classroom space in the fastest-growing area of the city.
The board, fearing fund won't be available to expand Vista Grande, rejected proposal 15C that would have left Vista Grande at 762 students and Sandia Vista at 359. Enchanted Hills Elementary, so named because it served that residential development for many years before Vista Grande came on line, would have had a one-student difference under plan 15C.
The plan also splits the Rivers Edge housing developments. Students in Rivers Edge III, the northernmost of the three subdivisions, will now attend Sandia Vista after previously going to Enchanted Hills with the other Rivers Edge students.
The boundaries for the other seven elementaries were approved by the board on Feb. 11 as recommended by the 60-member boundary committee. But the board at that time asked the committee to revisit the plan for the northeast section of town, and the committee had two public input sessions before voting to recommend both 15C and 16A to the board.
The board made the decision at a special meeting in order to give the district enough time to recruit faculty and staff for the coming year.
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By Eric Maddy
The SCORE
The Rio Rancho school board, not quite satisfied that its boundary committee's proposed elementary plan provided enough relief to its only school currently in Enchanted Hills, voted Tuesday for a plan that cuts will move more than 225 students from Vista Grande to a new school that will open next year.
The board unanimously approved plan 16A (above), bringing the overcrosded Vista Grande Elementary down to 673 students from its existing total of 915. The shift means Sandia Vista, a new school, will open at 451 students and make Martin Luther King Elementary the largest in the district.
All of the schools except for Vista Grande are built for a student capacity at 800. Vista Grande was built to hold 600 students, but has been using portable buildings to provide classroom space in the fastest-growing area of the city.
The board, fearing fund won't be available to expand Vista Grande, rejected proposal 15C that would have left Vista Grande at 762 students and Sandia Vista at 359. Enchanted Hills Elementary, so named because it served that residential development for many years before Vista Grande came on line, would have had a one-student difference under plan 15C.
The plan also splits the Rivers Edge housing developments. Students in Rivers Edge III, the northernmost of the three subdivisions, will now attend Sandia Vista after previously going to Enchanted Hills with the other Rivers Edge students.
The boundaries for the other seven elementaries were approved by the board on Feb. 11 as recommended by the 60-member boundary committee. But the board at that time asked the committee to revisit the plan for the northeast section of town, and the committee had two public input sessions before voting to recommend both 15C and 16A to the board.
The board made the decision at a special meeting in order to give the district enough time to recruit faculty and staff for the coming year.
MORE TO COME ON THIS STORY.
Click here to return to Page 1.
