Summary of Online Comments

Since January 26, approximately 630 people have shared their feedback about potential attendance boundary changes using our online comment form. All comments are being analyzed by members of the planning committee to identify additional options or solutions that still achieve the goals of creating a new attendance areas for Clovis South High School opening in August of 2025 and avoiding overcrowded or under-enrolled schools across the District as the cities of Clovis and Fresno grow.

•A summary of the themes of these comments and those collected during community meetings are shown below.

•Concerns about the potential impact of change of any kind in the lives of young people

•Questions about how potential school attendance changes would impact services received under an individualized education plan for those students served by our Special Education Department

•Questions about how the district would address adequate walk paths, road crossings and potential busing in areas near Oraze, Young, Dry Creek and Riverview

•Questions about transfer options available in the event of childcare challenges presented if a school attendance boundary changes, or for details about how the existing policy on siblings remaining at the same high school (BP5116)

•Alternative map scenarios shared for consideration instead of the initial scenarios.

•Afﬁrmations of one or more of the three scenarios given their relative impact to one neighborhood or another

•Questions about the relative quality of schools, co-curricular offerings, and other student connection points in instances where a proposed change may impact high school attendance areas

•Concerns about a perception or belief that new families moving into development areas are being prioritized over the desire of existing students and their families, and requests to consider modiﬁcations that use new developments to balance enrollment

•Questions about whether other neighborhoods or other schools can be moved to new areas as opposed to the proposed changes

•Comments pertaining to a given neighborhood identiﬁed for possible changes and requests for additional data or expression of concerns that data are projections and may change over time in a way that would make a proposed change unnecessary.

•Requests to allow students to remain at their current school should they so desire, and require future students to follow new attendance boundaries rather than existing students