The Batavia School District 101 Board of Education delayed a final vote Tuesday night on where to draw new elementary school boundaries after some board members suggested additional boundary changes on the east side.
The board wants to see how those potential changes could affect enrollment tables and border maps in the growing school district, which is building two elementary schools that are slated to open in 2001. The schools are part of a $26.2 million financing package approved by voters last year.
In recent weeks, school board officials have separated the district’s 2,565 elementary pupils into clusters, using subdivision borders as well as the Fox River and Wilson Street.
A number of parents have expressed concern that new boundaries will force their children to be bussed to distant schools.
The board did agree Tuesday to the boundaries for the new west side school and elected to keep two neighboring northwest subdivisions together instead of splitting them between two schools. The majority of members also supported dividing the 60 pupils living in an apartment complex on the northeast side between two schools.
