Some San Marcos CISD students may have to switch schools at the start of the 2015-16 school year if a plan to redraw the boundaries for the district’s six elementary schools and two middle schools moves forward. The plan is scheduled to go to the school board for a vote on March 30, and the district hosted a final workshop March 26 to address parents’ concerns and explain the reasoning behind the new boundaries. Many parents voiced concerns about the plan, including longer commute times to their new schools and their children having to start at schools where they do not know other children. Lillian Garcia, a mother of a first and fourth grader, said she is familiar with the teachers and staff at her children’s school, and she is not interested in changing schools. “I’m not sending my child to Crockett [Elementary School],” Garcia said. “I want Travis [Elementary School]. I should be able to choose where I send my daughters. I don’t want to send them to Crockett, and I don’t want them to go to Miller [Middle School]. I want them to go to Goodnight [Middle School].” Assistant Superintendent Karen Griffith said the primary reason behind the new boundaries is to address potential overcrowding at some of the district’s schools. “We have capacity at these schools, and we have to set boundaries to determine where the children in the neighborhood are going,” Griffith said. “Right now we are overflowing at some of these campuses.” Griffith said the district's Bonham Prekindergarten School campus, which opened in February, opened a lot of capacity at Hernandez Elementary School, which formerly housed the district's pre-K program. Parents can file transfer requests that allow fourth graders entering fifth grade and seventh graders entering eighth grade to remain at their current school for one final year. Griffith said the district will make every effort to accommodate those requests, but because of capacity issues, not every request can be guaranteed approval. As long as campuses are not at capacity, the requests will be granted, she said. Parents whose children are grandfathered in will be responsible for transporting their children to school. Griffith said students in other grades will also be allowed to fill out the transfer requests, but preference will be given to fourth graders entering fifth grade and seventh graders entering eighth grade. The new boundaries are aimed at getting schools near 95 percent capacity, Griffith said. That leaves some room for new students moving to the district. “If a new person comes in the neighborhood and we’re at capacity, we have to bus them to a different school,” Griffith said. “It’s not fair to that person. The magic number is 95 percent because we have to leave room for those kids that are moving to the area.” Travis and Bowie elementary schools are dealing with overcrowding issues, said Lolly Guerra, assistant superintendent for human resources. Four teachers currently share one classroom at Bowie, she said.