A boundary shift for two Tippecanoe School Corporation elementary districts may not accomplish everything administrators want. The board voted last fall to move part of the Woodland boundary to Dayton Elementary and part of Klondike to Burnett Creek. Current students in the affected areas could opt to stay at Woodland and Klondike, or they could start at the new schools in August.
Superintendent Scott Hanback says some families decided to switch to the new schools, but not as many as they hoped.
“Woodland is more of a concern for us, because they were already at such an overcrowded capacity that we needed more kids to go to the Dayton school than really had signed up to do.”
Woodland Elementary School opened in August, 2008, with 467 students enrolled. This school year began with an enrollment of 524.
Hanback says they will monitor the situation at Woodland this spring, but it seems changes there are likely.
“It’s possible we may have to move some portable classrooms to Woodland as an intermediate step before we undertake adding on a wing to that school here in the near future.”
He says the situation at Klondike is not as dire as Woodland. Klondike’s enrollment at the start of this school year was 1,005. It’s added 156 students compared to five years ago.