Merced City School District relocates 6th graders, adjusts boundaries

MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Sixth graders successful Merced are going to beryllium graduating simple schoolhouse a twelvemonth aboriginal and perchance from a antithetic school.

Following a twelvemonth and a fractional of evaluation, the Merced City School District (MCSD) decided to relocate their sixth-grade students to mediate schools. The determination volition beryllium made starting successful the 2026/2027 schoolhouse year.

The territory has besides decided to set some its simple and mediate schoolhouse boundaries to code the long-standing challenges of overcrowding and imbalanced schoolroom sizes.

Adjustments volition statesman with the simple schoolhouse boundaries during the 2025/2026 schoolhouse twelvemonth and adjustments for the mediate schools volition commence the pursuing year.

The schoolhouse territory says their Board of Trustees voted to o.k. the changes pursuing an 18-month extended facilities and enrollment projection valuation process. The MCSD School Board approved the timeline for adjusting simple schoolhouse boundaries connected Jan. 28, and selected and approved the bound representation connected Feb. 11.