FARMINGTON — The Davis Board of Education has unveiled the preliminary boundaries for the new Farmington High School.
The boundaries for Bountiful, Davis, Layton, Viewmont and Woods Cross high schools also are being adjusted for the new school, which is being built to accommodate growth in western Davis County.
The preliminary boundaries have been posted on the district website at davis.k12.ut.us/Page/104497. An interactive map, which allows community members to enter a house address to view their high school boundaries, is available at arcg.is/2udR652.
The proposed boundaries will also be discussed at two open houses: Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Davis High School, 325 S. Main, Kaysville; and Thursday, Oct. 26, at Viewmont High School, 120 W. 1000 North, Bountiful. Both are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Community members can view maps and give input during the meetings.
Additionally, the district has set up an e-mail — hsboundary@dsdmail.net — where the public can send comments regarding the preliminary boundaries. The proposal will also be reviewed with each affected high school’s community council.
In a statement from the district, boundary consultant Darrell White said he was tasked with three goals in establishing the preliminary boundaries:
• Open the new high school with a sufficient number of students to make it viable
• Maintain enrollment in the other high schools at a level that keeps them viable
• Reduce enrollment at overcrowded high schools
Additionally, White considered community priorities from an earlier survey. The top three were keeping neighborhoods intact, proximity to the school, and school feeder patterns. Other priorities considered included safe travel routes, contiguous boundaries and a good socioeconomic balance.
The $76 million high school, which is being built at 400 West and Glovers Lane, will have a capacity of 2,100 students and will open in the fall of 2018. The school is the first of several to be constructed in the Davis School District using funding from a $298 million bond that voters approved in November 2015.
The school was built to relieve overcrowding at Davis, Layton and Viewmont high schools.
Currently, Layton High School — with a building capacity of about 1,700 — has 14 portable classrooms on site to handle the 1,900 students attending there. Davis High School only has a few portables but has utilized teacher workrooms as classrooms for the 2,500 students at that school — about 400 students over the building’s capacity. Viewmont High, which is also undergoing a renovation, is 150 students over capacity.