BARTOW, Fla. — Polk County Schools will host the first of a half-dozen community meetings on Thursday night to address proposed boundary changes for high schools.
The boundary changes are needed because of exponential growth in certain areas of the county, which has pushed school capacities to their limits.
Director of Facilities Planning and Real Estate for Polk Schools Joshua McLemore says the plans drafted by the School Boundary Committee are aiming to help elevate overcrowding and improve district transportation.
“While some of our schools are feeling that impact more so than others with the presence of overcrowding and the heavy reliance on portables, others are not,” said McLemore. “So what we are attempting to do, and what is the main goal is to cross balance the enrollment across all the high schools as well as improve the bus route planning.”
The first of the community meetings is scheduled for Thursday night at Bartow High School.
The schools to be discussed include Bartow, Fort Meade, Mulberry and George Jenkins.
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