Board to Discuss Moving Students
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The thorny issue of switching some downtown children from one elementary school to another will come back before the Moorpark school board Tuesday.
Board members are scheduled to discuss a proposal that would take children living in a five-block section of downtown and move them from Peach Hill School to Mountain Meadows School.
The proposed change is designed to improve the ethnic balance at both campuses. Most of the children who would switch schools are Latino. Peach Hill school’s student population is now about 47% Latino, whereas Mountain Meadows is 22.5%.
Last month, members of the Moorpark Unified School District board split on whether to implement the change. Some said the district should wait until the city’s new elementary school on Casey Road opens before changing the boundaries between schools. Otherwise, they said, the move could overcrowd Mountain Meadows with students and force the district to buy or lease more portable classrooms.
District Supt. Tom Duffy told the board that such measures could cost about $200,000. Board members then directed Duffy to put together a more precise estimate of how much the change would cost.
Duffy, who could not be reached Friday afternoon, is expected to deliver the report at Tuesday’s meeting.
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