Collierville committee recommends redrawing zoning lines
Would reduce crowding at Schilling Farms Middle School
A Collier ville committee studying ways to reduce crowding at Schilling Farms Middle School has recommended redrawing zoning lines to shift some students to the town’s other school for that grade level, Collierville Middle.
The plan won’t be final until a public meeting and a vote by the school board.
The committee is recom mending the school system allow current Schilling Farms Middle students to stay there until they finish.
A section of southeast Collierville between U.S. 72 and Byhalia would be rezoned. At the moment, students who live in that area attend Schilling Farms Middle but in the future they would attend Collierville Middle.
The new zoning would take effect for the students who are in fifth grade today and who are slated to start middle school as sixthgraders this fall. The school system says 35 fifthgraders will be affected.
The rezoning plan also would change district lines for the elementary schools that feed into the middle schools. In one of the most significant changes, 37 students who attend Bailey Station Elementary would switch to Sycamore Elementary in the fall, Mike Simpson, chief operating officer for the school system, said.
Letters were mailed to the affected families Monday and the school system has posted proposed maps and other information at colliervilleschools.org/apps/spotlightmessages/1098.
A public meeting to gather input on the proposals will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at Collierville Middle School. Following the public meeting, the school zone changes will be presented to school board members. A date for the vote has not been set.
Amy Flood with the Collierville Middle School Parent Teacher Association said based on conversations with friends, the zoning changes don’t seem very big. She also said the school system appears committed to trying to let parents know where their children will go to school for the next several years.
“I think parents are real happy about that,” she said.