Local News in Brief : Las Virgenes Schools List Options on Space

Las Virgenes Unified School District elementary students Thursday took home letters that outlined six options to relieve crowding in district schools, including placing some schools on a year-round calendar.

Crowding could be a problem for “the next 10 to 15 years if appropriate steps are not taken,” the letter said.

The letter said the school board, at its next meeting, will consider:

Placing Sumac, Willow and Yerba Buena elementary schools on a year-round calendar beginning July 1, 1987.

Placing Lindero Canyon Middle School on a year-round calendar that would be the same as the elementary school year-round calendar. Lindero and Yerba Buena elementary school are on the same campus.

Changing school attendance boundary lines so graduating Sumac students would attend A. E. Wright Middle School instead of Lindero Canyon.

Building a temporary school in the city of Agoura Hills.

Moving sixth-graders out of middle schools and placing them on elementary campuses. Las Virgenes elementary schools then would include kindergarten through sixth grade instead of the current kindergarten through fifth grade.

Placing Yerba Buena students in first through third grade on double sessions, with half of the youngsters attending school from 6 a.m. to noon and the other half from noon to 6 p.m.

The board will discuss those and and other options when it meets Tuesday at Agoura High School, the letter said.