With the addition of an eighth middle school, Irving ISD has announced attendance boundaries will be re-drawn for all middle schools and selected elementary and early childhood schools.
"In 2009, the Irving ISD Board of Trustees authorized the construction of the District’s eighth middle school, to be named for Lady Bird Johnson in honor of the noted Texas entrepreneur, environmentalist and wife of the 36th President of the United States. The addition of the new middle school requires rezoning of all middle school boundaries. Realignment of some elementary and high school boundaries is also necessary to adjust for the new middle school and to balance enrollment across the campuses in the District.
Meetings will be hosted to give the public the opportunity to provide input on boundary changes. The first round of meetings is scheduled for 6:30-8:30 p.m. January 11, 12, and 13 at de Zavala Middle School, MacArthur High School and Lamar Middle School, respectively. Letters informing parents of meeting times and places will be sent home with students no later than January 7. Parents and community members may attend any of the meetings regardless of the high school attendance zone in which they live. Presentations at the meetings will be translated into Spanish at all locations, and a sign-language interpreter will be present at the Lamar Middle School meeting January 13.
Here is an exerpt from a letter sent to parents:
In October 2010, the Irving ISD Board of Trustees authorized Templeton Demographics of Hurst, Texas to recommend options for new or realigned boundaries to accomplish the following objectives:
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Define the attendance zone boundary for the new Lady Bird Johnson Middle School.
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Realign current middle school boundaries to balance enrollment across the eight middle schools.
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Redefine elementary school boundaries to balance enrollment across the 20 elementary campuses and reduce to a minimum split feeds to the middle schools.
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Realign the early childhood campus boundaries to the new elementary boundaries to eliminate split elementary feeds as much as possible.
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Redefine high school boundaries to balance enrollment across the three comprehensive high school attendance zones and eliminate split feeds from the middle schools as much as possible."
