Northside ISD will vote Tuesday on a proposal to move boundaries for four elementary schools along the I-10 corridor.
Some parents have launched a petition in protest of the current proposal, but other parents welcome the change.
With all the growth in far-northwest San Antonio, the school district needs to relieve overcrowding at its elementary schools, such as Blattman Elementary. Administrators say if the overcrowding isn't alleviated right now, there will be major problems for the district not far down the road.
'We live in Stonewall Ranch. We've lived there eight years, since my daughter was born, said parent Stephanie Wright, whose daughter now is a second-grader at Leon Springs Elementary.
She said the Northside ISD zoning process is fair and works well.
Her daughter would transfer from Leon Springs to Ellison Elementary if Northside approves redrawn boundary attendance zones.
I hope the proposal stays the same that she'll go to Ellison, because I think with change it's good to kind of prepare kids, she said.
Wright also said the new school would be a more convenient commute.
The proposal on the table moves 446 children from Leon Springs to Ellison, 84 students from Aue to Leon Springs and 118 children from Blattman to Leon Springs. The goal is to balance attendance at four elementary schools along I-10.
The district says it spent years studying construction trends and reviewing city platting and utility expansion to meet the tremendous growth in this northwest part of the city.
Administrators say they look at five-year and 10-year projections using birth records and real-estate data.
I feel like the school board in Northside put all of the facts on the table and really made a decision in the best interest of all the families and the children that go to the schools, and i feel like in some ways we have to trust that they really did their research, Wright said.
