On Oct. 17, PPS released three scenarios for dividing up students who currently choose between attending Jefferson High School or Grant, McDaniel or Roosevelt high schools. The district’s goal: By the 2030–31 school year, all four schools will enroll at least 1,100 students each. District officials say that’s the baseline number the buildings need to function as comprehensive high schools.

The district is assigning specific elementary schools and K-8s to Jefferson, Grant and Roosevelt. Here’s what that change could look like:

THE STATUS QUO

Currently, dual assignment zones are broken down as follows. Students at four feeder elementary schools to Harriet Tubman Middle School—Boise-Eliot/Humboldt, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Irvington, and Sabin—choose between Jefferson and Grant. Student

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