The committee, which is made up of teachers, principals, administrators and parents, are currently working with four different maps.The School Board provided three of those maps to them.
The first map presented at previous meetings separated the existing district lines at Airport Road and then follows the bayou around. The second map drew the line at the same place but excludes the Belaire and Meadowbrook subdivisions on the west of Airport Road and includes the neighborhood located behind Northshore Square Mall.
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The committee came up with their own fourth map, a hybrid that includes both sides of Airport Road into the same district.
All four maps are available on the St. Tammany Parish School Board Web site at www.stpsb.org and are posted at both Bayou Woods and Carolyn Park.
Parents are asked to review the maps and make comments of suggestions, which will be considered by the committee.
The new school is being built to accommodate 780 students, but Superintendent Gayle Sloan said she does not want to start it off at full capacity.
Sloan said as the maps evolve and change, parents will be notified and new maps will be posted.
Sloan is encouraging parents to participate in the process and attend Tuesday night’s meeting.
Ground was broken on the new school, which will serve students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, in September last year.
The new school, which will be named in honor of long-time educator Henry Mayfield, will serve the students in the western portion of the existing attendance districts of Bayou Woods Elementary and Carolyn Park Middle.
The school site is located on the south side of U.S. Highway 190.
Construction underway, and the school is set to open for the start of the 2011-2012 school year.
This school is being built to relieve overcrowding issues at Bayou Woods Elementary School and Carolyn Park Middle School.�
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