Attention, junior high school students:
If you live in West Bountiful, you might be going to Bountiful High School instead of Viewmont High in a couple of years.And if your home lies in Farmington between Centerville and 675 North (Burke Lane), start getting used to the prospect of becoming a Viewmont Viking rather than a Davis Dart.
Those are two of the major changes proposed for south Davis County high school boundaries to help Davis High and Viewmont High cope with too many students and prevent Bountiful High from being closed because of too few students.
The boundary change proposal - the brainchild of Davis School District consultant Reed Call - would, by 1993, shift 381 Davis High students to Viewmont, send 532 Viewmont students to Bountiful and 122 Bountiful students to Woods Cross.
With the changes, each of the four schools would still exceed its student capacity but would be able to accommodate the students with portable classrooms and better utilization of existing classrooms, Call said.
In addition to the boundary changes mentioned above, the plan calls for the following:
- Students living in Bountiful between 400 North and Center and between 800 East and 500 West would go to Bountiful High instead of Viewmont.
- Students living in Bountiful between Center Street and 500 South and between 200 West and 500 West would also go to Bountiful High rather than Viewmont.
- Current Bountiful High students living between Mill Creek (600 South) and 1800 South and between roughly 100 East and U.S. Highway 106 would be shifted to Woods Cross High.
- Current Bountiful High students living between 1800 South and 2200 South and between Orchard Drive and U.S. Highway 106 would also be shifted to Woods Cross High.
Thoroughly confused? Then call your local "reaction panel" chairman for clarification. (Please see chart.)
The reaction panels, composed of parents within the current high school boundaries, are charged with evaluating the proposed changes and gathering public input, said Call, former superintendent of the Granite School District.
The panels - which, among other things, are to consider the proposal's impacts on safety and economics - will issue written reports to Call by June 25. A public hearing before the school board is set for Aug. 7.
Students now in high school would not be affected by the plan, which would be phased in one grade level at a time, beginning in the fall of 1991.
For example, a boy who currently lives in West Bountiful and starts his ninth-grade year this fall would be a sophomore at Bountiful High School in fall 1991. But his sister, who will be a sophomore at Viewmont this fall, would not be affected by the changes and would be a senior at Viewmont in fall 1993.
The proposed boundary changes are part of several steps the district is taking to deal with rapid growth in high school enrollment, which is expected to exceed current high school capacity by about 4,000 students in 1996.
Earlier this month, voters approved a $40 million bond proposal that will be used to build a new high school in north Davis County, purchase land for a future secondary school and make improvements in existing schools to expand their capacity.
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Questions?
Have questions about the proposed boundary changes? Contact the chairman of your high school's "reaction panel." They are:
Bountiful High _ Mindy Wilson, 298-2665.
Davis High _ Craig Taylor, 544-3277.
Viewmont High _ Karen Smith, 292-6039.
Woods Cross High _ Dave Hansen, 298-1406.