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Where might your elementary student be rezoned?

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Courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

Photo courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

Photo courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

Photo courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

Photo courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

Photo courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

Photo courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

Photo courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

Photo courtesy of Hoover City Schools.

In response to the multiple meetings with parents and residents, Hoover City Schools released a breakdown of a proposed realignment plan for the 2015-2016.

When word of possible rezoning within the school system got out in the past few weeks, some parents and residents responded by forming support groups on Facebook and holding parent-only meetings with Superintendent Andy Craig.

Bluff Park United is one of those Facebook groups with about 540 people involved. Stephen Hertz, head of Bluff Park Unites, said the original purpose of the group was to spread information to get the community involved with the rezoning issue.

Hertz said one of the biggest concerns of the group is the disproportion of resources being divided among the schools.

“Every other school is gaining something in resources or any number of things,” Hertz said. “Bluff Park is kind of at the end of the line of dominos, and we are being taken from.”

Parents of current Bluff Park Elementary School students met with Superintendent Andy Craig in a closed meeting Aug. 11. During those community meetings, Craig provided some realignment maps for each of the nine areas that could possibly be affected.

“The proposed rezoning plan takes one of the oldest communities, in one of the oldest parts of the city, and cuts it in half,” Hertz said. “It goes against all the reasons people move to Bluff Park. We move here not because the houses are nice and new and have pools in the backyards. We move here for sense of community.”

Although the proposal is still in draft form and no official decisions have been made, those maps are now available in PDF form on the Hoover City Schools website.

“I know for some folks it feels like we shouldn’t have to rezone, but in our community we are in this continuous growth,” Craig said. “There are going to be times along the way where we are going to have to realign ourselves, re-balance things, and hopefully we do that in such a way that it looks forward as well so we won’t have to do this more often than we would otherwise.”

Craig said he hopes to have a final draft of the rezoning proposal ready by the Sept. 8, the next board meeting, so that residents can provide additional feedback before any proposal is given a vote. He said he is working collaboratively to put the district in a position to provide quality education for a long period of time for all students.

Possible area reassignments

The realignment summary provided by Hoover City Schools on its website illustrates nine areas that could possibly be rezoned for the 2015-1016 school year. For more detailed information, refer to the maps above that include boundary line proposals for the ten elementary schools in the system.

 The possible reassignments are: 

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