Troy School District Changes Part of Redistricting Plan

Photo: Troy School District Superintendent Todd Koehl addresses a crowd of parents on the district’s redistricting plan at a January meeting.

A change that ought to please at least some parents has been made to Troy School District’s redistricting plans.

One big area of concern was that some students at Heritage Trail Elementary would have to be bused to Shorewood Elementary, which means students would be riding on I-55.

The district no longer plans to have kids who live in the McClintock Acres and Leland Hills subdivisions of Channahon move from Heritage Trail to Shorewood Elementary.

Troy School District 30-C Superintendent Todd Koehl told The Herald-News that the change was made after getting parent feedback.

“It was clear that we were working inconsistently with our own primary purpose to build attendance centers based on geographic proximity,” Koehl said at a special board meeting Monday, as reported by The Herald-News.

Channahon resident Tracy Denton said at a previous redistricting meeting he was concerned about school buses having to use the interstate to get kids to Shorewood Elementary. In the redistricting plan, some students who attend Heritage Trail will be moved to Shorewood, which would affect Denton’s children.

“My concern is you’re gonna be putting kindergarten kids, first grade kids, second and third grade on the interstate on a school bus with one driver to monitor those children as they go up and down the highway,” Denton said. “That intersection at 80 and 59 is a terrible intersection to try to put a bus through. I’m absolutely against moving my kids from Heritage Trail to Shorewood.”