district information

February 2007

Attendance boundaries for the entire district are being redrawn to allow for the opening of the 14th elementary this fall and the third high school in 2009. A group of more than 90 people – parents, non-parent residents, city officials and staff members – have been studying the issue since September.

Community Forums

February 27 at Hilliard Heritage Middle School
March 14 at Hilliard Weaver Middle School.

The maps will be available for viewing beginning at 5:30 p.m. both evenings, while a formal presentation of the proposals – along with an opportunity for public input – will start at 7 p.m.

Guidelines for Redistricting Implementation 2007-08

All Students

  1. Students are to attend their “Home School;” the school to which they are assigned based on address.
  2. Transfers away from the “Home School” will be granted based on emergency or hardship only.
  3. Transfer Request forms will be available by May 1, 2007 in all school buildings and at the district’s Central Office, 5323 Cemetery Road.  They must be received by the end of the business day May 18, 2007 at the district’s Central Office.
  4. Implementation schedule is as follows:
    1. 2007-08 school year: New elementary (K-5th grade) boundaries will go into effect
    2. 2008-09 school year: New 6th grade boundaries will go into effect
    3. 2009-10 school year: New middle school and high school (7th-12th grade) boundaries will go into effect

Elementary

  1. Fourth-graders in 2006-07 will not be grandfathered to their current school should their address assign them to a new “Home School”; these students will become fifth-graders in their new “Home School.”
  2. Current multi-age students may remain at Alton Darby or Norwich under a grandfather clause for the remainder of their elementary schooling only; they will follow the new boundaries for their 6th-grade year.
    1. Siblings who do not currently attend a multi-age school will not be grandfathered; if a second-grader at Norwich has a younger sibling entering kindergarten in the 2007-08 school year, the sibling will attend the Home School based on address, which may not be the multi-age building.
    2. The sister school for Alton Darby will remain Darby Creek/Brown and the sister school for Norwich will remain Britton.
    3. Guidelines for entrance into (and opting out of) multi-age programs remains the same.
  3. The following elementary schools will serve as feeders for each of the multi-age buildings:
    1. Alton Darby:  Brown, Darby Creek, Hilliard Crossing, Hilliard Horizon, Hoffman Trails & Scioto Darby
    2. Norwich:  Avery, Beacon, Britton, JW Reason, Ridgewood & Washington
  4. The new elementary -- Washington Elementary -- will not open at design-capacity (roughly 600 students), but is intended to grow with the build-out of the assigned attendance area.

Middle School/High School

  1. All graduating seniors in the 2009-10 school year will graduate from Hilliard Darby or Hilliard Davidson; the new high school will not have a senior class when it opens in the fall of 2009. To this end, it is possible families may have students in two high schools for the 2009-10 school year. Transfers for younger siblings of families in this situation may not be granted.
  2. OHSAA (Ohio High School Athletic Association) rules stipulate a student in grades 9-12 whose voluntary transfer to another high school is granted is ineligible to participate in any sport at any level for one calendar year from the date of transfer regardless of the level of team on which they play. Realignment of boundaries establishes athletic eligibility.
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