OAK PARK : Boundaries Studied for New School

Officials in the Oak Park Unified School District are studying how to redraw district boundaries to accommodate a proposed new elementary school.

Board President Pat Kavulic said Friday she expects many parents to attend a school board meeting Tuesday to give their views on how boundaries should change.

To alleviate crowding at Brookside and Oak Hills elementary schools, the board decided last month to build a third elementary school at Rockfield Street near Lindero Canyon Road.

The school is expected to be completed by fall, 1993.

On Tuesday, the board will consider a recommendation from the district’s director of administrative services, Stanley Mantooth, on how school boundaries should be redrawn to accommodate the new school.

Mantooth has recommended that children living between Sunnycrest Drive and Deerhill Road east of Kanan Road, an area that is still being developed, be sent to the new school.

Students living in this area now attend Brookside.

Under Mantooth’s proposal, the new school would open with an about 300 students and gradually grow to more than 500.

Enrollment at Brookside, which now has 485 students, would be expected to drop gradually over several years to fewer than 400 students. Oak Hills’ enrollment would stay about even with its present enrollment of 450.