Attendance Boundary Options

Moorpark Unified School District trustees are considering four ways they can redraw attendance boundaries for elementary and middle schools so that the schools are balanced in population and ethnic composition.

One factor that affects the boundary lines is the configuration of the new Walnut Canyon Elementary School. Trustees will be sending parents a questionnaire in the first week of January, asking whether they want a K-5, K-2 or grades 3-5 school.

The questionnaire also will ask about amenities parents may want at the campus, such as music or district-run child-care programs.

Trustees reviewed the first two options earlier this year and examined the third closely last week.

Here are the options they are considering:

Option A would:

* Create boundaries for a K-2 Walnut Canyon Elementary School.

* Reassign some midtown Latino students from Peach Hill Elementary School to Mountain Meadows Elementary School.

* Move some students north of the Arroyo Simi who attend Mountain Meadows to Walnut Canyon.

* Extend boundaries for Mesa Verde Middle School farther west.

Option B would:

* Create boundaries for a K-5 Walnut Canyon Elementary School.

* Reassign some midtown Latino students from Peach Hill Elementary School to Mountain Meadows Elementary School.

* Move some students from north of the Arroyo Simi who attend Mountain Meadows to Walnut Canyon Elementary School.

* Assign students who will come from the Carlsburg housing development to Walnut Canyon.

Option C would:

* Create boundaries for a K-5 Walnut Canyon Elementary School.

* Assign half of the future students from the Carlsburg housing development to Walnut Canyon and the other half to Peach Hill Elementary School.

* Move some downtown students from Peach Hill to Mountain Meadows.

* Reassign some Mountain Meadows students north of the Arroyo Simi to Walnut Canyon Elementary School.

Option D would:

* Create boundaries for a grades 3-5 Walnut Canyon Elementary School. It would take students as they graduate from the K-2 Campus Canyon Elementary School.

Trustees did not have time to look at option D, which would further increase imbalances at Mountain Meadows and Peach Hill. The plan would not achieve ethnic balancing without making further changes in the Mountain Meadows and Peach Hill boundaries, district staff members said.