LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – New zoning recommendations have been approved for several schools in Henderson and North Las Vegas.
The Clark County School Board approved the recommendations from the Attendance Zone Advisory Commission on Monday. These changes come after the district received a $15 million grant to implement more magnet programs in the valley.
The recommendations involve dissolving attendance boundaries between several schools to relieve overcapacity issues at several campuses. Additionally, magnet programs are set to be implemented at Lyal Burkholder Middle School and Carroll M. Johnston Middle School.
With the changes, students at B. Mahlon Brown Academy of International Studies will be reassigned to Jack and Terry Mannion Middle School. Students at Lyle Burkholder Middle School will be reassigned to Mannion Middle School and B. Mahlon Brown Academy of International Studies.
Additionally, students at Burkholder Middle School will be reassigned to Barbara and Hank Greenspun Middle School.
Currently enrolled 6th and 7th graders will be grandfathered into each school, and only incoming 6th graders and newly enrolled students will be reassigned. Additionally, incoming 6th graders can be assigned to either of the newly implemented magnet programs through the magnet school lottery.
In North Las Vegas, students attending Brian and Terri Cram Middle School will be reassigned to Anthony Saville Middle School, while students will be reassigned from Clifford O Findlay Middle School to Cram Middle School. Also, students at Carroll M Johnston Middle School will be reassigned to Cram and O Findlay Middle School.
Again, currently enrolled students will be grandfathered in for the rest of their middle school careers, and incoming 6th graders or newly enrolled students will be reassigned.
The final recommendation was to rezone students from the Basic Academy of International Studies to Chaparral High School, due to increasing enrollment and growth in the area.
Recommendation to rezone to Basic Academy of International Studies to Chaparral High School. Due to increasing enrollment, and growth in the area.
“Basic academy students residing north of Russell Road and west of the precinct boundary must travel southwest approximately 7 miles or more to school,” said Tracy Murphy, CCSD’s Director of Demographics, Zoning, and GIS. ”Chaparral HS is less than 2 miles from many of these neighborhoods, potentially providing a safer route to school.”
Only newly enrolled or incoming 9th graders will be reassigned each year, while currently enrolled students will be grandfathered in for the remainder of their high school careers.
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