Beaverton Schools Boundary Process is Back

The Beaverton Schools District boundary process is back on track with a new series of maps being released and new public meetings being scheduled.

The process - which is necessary to accommodate a new high school in the South Cooper Mountain area - dominated the last few months of the tenure of Superintendent Jeff Rose who left at the end of the school year to take over a district in Georgia.

A proposal supported by Rose was scuttled just before it had been expected to be adopted has been redrawn.

The plan unveiled Tuesday calls for changes in four areas: part of Aloha-Huber Park K-8; portion of McKinley Elementary School; and two portions of Elmonica Elementary School.

The maps, which can be seen here, will be discussed at five public input sessions - one at each of district's five comprehensive high schools:

Monday, September 12, 2016, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Sunset High School, cafeteria;

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Westview High School, cafeteria;

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Aloha High School, cafeteria;

Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Southridge High School, community room; and

Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Beaverton High School, cafeteria.

Each session will include public testimony.

After that, district staff, the High School Boundary Adjustment Committee and Superintendent Don Grotting - who was hired to replace Rose - will review public input and develop a final map, revising, if necessary.

Then Grotting will submit his recommended map along with a report to the school board for review.

The hope is that a final map will be adopted in late September or early October.