When the back-to-school bell rings for the 2008-2009 school year, some students in the Clear Creek Independent School District will be going to a different school. The Board of Trustees approved new school boundary attendance zones for more than a dozen elementary and intermediate schools.

The changes are the result of months of meetings, five public hearings and countless hours of work by members of the School Boundary Advisory Committee (SBAC). Chairman Trent Martin said, "We did the best job we could to move the least amount of students, ease overcrowding and populate two new elementary schools and the Ninth Grade Center conversion to an intermediate school." 

The committee is made up of volunteer parents who represent all areas of the district. "We had a hard time coming up with a recommendation that would move kids easily," said Martin.

Boundaries will change next school year for five elementary schools and three intermediate schools. Thirteen other campuses will be affected by the attendance zone changes in the 2009 - 2010 school year. 

"We see some schools that are under crowded at 2010, but they'll reach capacity in 2011or 2012," school board president Paula Tomasi said. "We're a little ahead of the curve on some things. We're behind in others."

The SBAC chairman told the Board of Trustees while the committee's work was difficult, "What I like, as a volunteer and as a parent, is to have a say in the process."

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