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Updating School Boundaries

Following the School Board’s decision to close three schools, the district must update school attendance areas to reflect these changes. Our goal is to create balanced, sustainable attendance zones that support student learning, minimize disruptions, and maximize resources.

Community Feedback Opportunities

We value your input in this process and invite families, staff, and community members to provide feedback on two proposed options for new school boundaries.

Review the Proposed Attendance Areas

  • The district has developed two possible scenarios for updated school boundaries.
  • These options take into account student populations, transportation,  and school capacity.

Share Your Feedback

  • Online Survey: Submit your thoughts on the proposed attendance areas via our online feedback form. 

Summary of Proposed Attendance Area Options

As part of the school consolidation process, the district has developed two options for updating school attendance areas.

Option 1 – Minimal Impact

  • Students from the closing schools are reassigned to the nearest neighborhood schools.
  • No other school attendance areas are adjusted.
  • Affects 566 students.
  • Maintains current feeder patterns, meaning some elementary schools may still send students to multiple middle and high schools.
  • Impacts the attendance areas of: 
    • Anne Wien Elementary
    • North Pole Elementary
    • Ticasuk Brown Elementary
    • University Park Elementary
    • Weller Elementary
    • Woodriver Elementary

Option 2 – Balanced Approach

  • Attendance areas across Fairbanks are adjusted to better balance school enrollment.
  • Affects 956 students.
  • Creates a cleaner elementary-to-middle-to-high school feeder system, so all but one elementary school feeds into only one middle and one high school.
  • Impacts the attendance areas of: 
    • Anne Wien Elementary
    • Arctic Light Elementary
    • Denali Elementary
    • Hunter Elementary
    • Ladd Elementary
    • North Pole Elementary
    • Randy Smith Middle
    • Ryan Middle
    • Ticasuk Brown Elementary
    • University Park Elementary
    • Weller Elementary
    • Woodriver Elementary