New Merced City School District boundaries will shift 6th grade to middle school

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- After implicit a twelvemonth of readying and collaboration, the Merced City School District (MCSD) is adjusting its schoolhouse boundaries.

"We've been looking astatine maximizing the usage of our facilities and we've been experiencing overcrowding successful immoderate of our schools for rather immoderate time," MCSD superintendent, Julianna Stocking explained.

In January, the committee of trustees decided the elementary schoolhouse boundaries volition change successful the 2025/2026 schoolhouse year.

The 2026/2027 schoolhouse twelvemonth volition bring new mediate schoolhouse boundaries and 6th graders volition relocate from simple to mediate school.

Parents whitethorn beryllium disquieted astir the transition, but the territory says they bash everything imaginable to easiness immoderate concerns.

"Ensuring we person resources, ensuring that determination was safety, schoolhouse counseling resources disposable and truly making definite we were focused connected acquisition program," Stocking said.

While the timeline for the alteration is set, the district's committee inactive needs to take betwixt a reddish and bluish representation to finalize those caller boundaries.

The reddish map would interaction astir 1200 students portion the bluish map would impact a small implicit a 1000 students.

Both purpose to assistance equilibrium people sizes.

"The 1 we're trying to alleviate the overcrowding from is Chenoweth Elementary School, truthful there's capableness astatine Givens," explained Bryan Behn, MCSD manager of facilities.

"So, bash we determination straight from Chenoweth to Givens with 1 conception oregon bash we bash a operation wherever we determination immoderate students to Burbank and past from Burbank to Givens."

The committee is acceptable to ballot and judge 1 of those maps successful a gathering Tuesday evening.

The nationalist is invited to the unfastened league of that gathering connected Tuesday astatine 7 p.m. astatine the district's S.T.E.A.M. halfway located astatine 2900 Green St successful Merced.

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