The Frisco ISD board of trustees approved attendance zones Dec. 8 for four new schools and four existing schools for the 2015-16 school year.
One of the schools includes Reedy High School, which will open in 2015. The board approved the original proposal with modifications in a 4-2 vote.
In the modified proposal, ninth and 10
th graders currently in Park Place Estates and Village Lakes will have a one-time option to attend and finish at Reedy. The two neighborhoods will remain zoned for Frisco High School, and the district will monitor this attendance option in subsequent years based on capacity at Reedy.
Another part of the modified zoning includes allowing families in The Trails and Meadow Creek the one-time option to stay at Wakeland High School if their students would have been split between two high schools for three or more years. This option is only available to the 19 families who lived in those neighborhoods as of Dec. 8.
Finally, the Emerson Apartments on the northeast corner of Main Street and Dallas Parkway will be rezoned to Frisco High School in the 2015-16 academic year. Students who began and finished their 11
th grade year at Wakeland will have the option to stay there their senior year.
The majority of speakers during public comment spoke against the original zoning proposal for Reedy because of the one-time assignment for ninth and 10
th graders to the high school, saying the proposal would split families.
Place 1 board member Bryan Dodson said there was no great option for zoning Reedy, but the board had to make a decision.
"One of the things that's a little different from city council when you're looking at maybe bringing a Wal-Mart into town is you can just vote no," he said. "We can't just vote no. We have to come up with some option."
The board also approved the zones for Trent Middle School and Norris Elementary School, both opening in 2015. Modified zones were also approved for Robertson and Boals Elementary Schools and Lone Star and Wakeland High Schools.
The proposal for zoning Pearson Middle School, opening in 2015, was modified to leave Lebanon Ridge Apartments in the Hunt Middle School and Frisco High School zones.
View the attendance zone maps
here.