Quick Facts
- MGT, the third-party vendor leading the boundary adjustment process, hosted three community meetings this week to share the proposed scenarios, provide additional context, and collect input.
- A recording of one of the community meetings is available
on YouTube and MGT’s most up-to-date presentation, which includes the three scenarios, can be reviewed
here.
- An
advanced mapping tool from MGT allows you to more closely review the proposed scenarios, summaries of which are below.
- Input is being collected through
this survey. Monday, February 10 is the deadline to complete the survey.
- All input received from
this survey and community meetings will be shared with the School Board, which is scheduled to vote on the options at its April meeting.
Full Message/Details
Dear Families, Faculty, and Staff,
We hope you are well. We are writing to share with you an update regarding the boundary evaluation and adjustment process.
Earlier this week, MGT, the third-party vendor that is leading this process, hosted three in-person community meetings to share the proposed boundary adjustment options, provide additional context regarding the development process, and receive our community’s input. Thank you for your engagement during these important and informative meetings.
Proposed Scenarios
We continue to recognize that there is significant interest in this process. Accordingly, a
recording of one of the informational meetings is available on YouTube and the most up-to-date presentation from MGT can be found here. Both of these resources provide you with significant information regarding capacity and utilization data, MGT’s forecasts, the three scenarios, and more.
Additionally,
an advanced mapping tool that can be found here allows you to access and more closely review the proposed scenarios, including the potential impact for you and your family.
This tool allows you to zoom in to specific areas of interest and also search your address for each scenario (the search icon in the top left of the scenario slides). Please also note that to review the entirety of a specific scenario, click the arrows on the right- and left-hand side of the slides.
While we strongly recommend that you watch a recording of MGT’s informational meeting and review the PowerPoint presentation, below is a summary (it does not include all proposed changes) of the three scenarios:
- Blue Scenario
- Giles neighborhood would move from Cool Spring ES to Washington-Henry ES beginning in the 2025-26 school year. Atlee Manor, Craney Island Farms, and Craney Island Estates, and homes in the general vicinity would move from Cool Spring ES to Washington-Henry ES beginning in the 2027-28 school year with the opening of the replacement Washington-Henry ES.
- An area west of Route 301 near Pearson’s Corner ES would move from Rural Point ES to Pearson’s Corner ES.
- An area east of Route 301 that is south of Totopotomoy Creek and is near Studley Road would move from Washington-Henry ES to Rural Point ES.
- An area south of Meadowbridge Road would move from Washington-Henry ES to Mechanicsville ES.
- Green Scenario
- Atlee Manor, Craney Island Farms, and Craney Island Estates would move from Cool Spring ES to Washington-Henry ES beginning in the 2025-26 school year. Giles would move from Cool Spring ES to Washington-Henry ES beginning in the 2027-28 school year with the opening of the replacement Washington-Henry ES.
- An area west of Route 301 near Pearson’s Corner ES would move from Rural Point ES to Pearson’s Corner ES.
- An area east of Route 301 that is south of Totopotomoy Creek and is near Studley Road would move from Washington-Henry ES to Rural Point ES.
- An area south of Meadowbridge Road would move from Washington-Henry ES to Mechanicsville ES.
- Purple Scenario
- Kings Charter would be split along Charter Lake with some students remaining at Cool Spring ES and other students moving from Cool Spring ES to Pearson’s Corner ES.
- Craney Island Estates and Craney Island Farms would move from Cool Spring ES to Washington-Henry ES.
- Rutland Village townhomes west of Atlee Road would move from Pearson’s Corner ES to Washington-Henry ES.
- Middle School and High School
- Across all three scenarios, middle and high school boundaries are adjusted to align with the updated elementary school boundaries to create clean feeder patterns (more on this below).
- Specifically, these adjustments are for Oak Knoll MS/Hanover HS and Chickahominy MS/Atlee HS (slides 55 and 56 of the MGT presentation). No changes are proposed for Liberty MS/Patrick Henry HS or Bell Creek MS/Mechanicsville HS, meaning if your student currently attends one of those schools, they would not change schools in these scenarios.
- HCPS currently has four split feeder patterns – a split feeder pattern means all students from the same elementary school don’t attend the same middle and high school. This would be reduced to one (Mechanicsville ES) in all three scenarios, meaning all other elementary schools across HCPS would directly feed to the same middle and high schools.
- If middle and high school boundaries were to remain the same while elementary school boundaries change, the number of split feeder patterns would increase to six.
- The current feeder patterns and the proposed feeder patterns can be found on sides 57 and 58 of the MGT presentation.
Again, we strongly recommend that you read the presentation and utilize
MGT’s advanced mapping tool to more closely review the proposed options.
Your Input is Needed
Please be assured that no decisions have been made.
We are excited to continue this engagement process, recognizing the value of your input and partnership that informs this important work.
After reviewing the proposed scenarios, please complete this survey. As you will note, in addition to requesting your preference of the scenarios, there is also space for sharing additional questions, recommendations, or feedback. The input, along with that collected during this week’s in-person meetings, will be shared with the Hanover County School Board.
Please note that
the survey will remain open through Monday, February 10.
Next Steps
As noted above, MGT will share your valued input with the Hanover County School Board in February following the end of the survey window. The School Board is scheduled to receive the draft final options at its March business meeting (Tuesday, March 11).
The School Board is currently scheduled to vote on the boundary adjustments at its April business meeting (Tuesday, April 8).
We will continue to keep you informed throughout this process, including through
the dedicated boundary adjustment webpage that is serving as the hub of information.
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We hope that providing this comprehensive information allows you to access this important information as often as needed while also receiving the necessary context surrounding this process.
Thank you for your engagement, collaboration, and support as we work to ensure that our school buildings support the current and future needs of our school community.
Hanover County Public Schools