When you're buying a home the location of schools is often top of the list of important criteria, right up there with the distance to your workplace. If you live in the Iowa City area you'll know we have a major debate going on right now about the redistricting of the boundary lines for schools in the Iowa City school district. This became necessary with the population explosion to the north of Iowa City in Coralville and North Liberty. (North Liberty is one of the fastest growing towns in Iowa, as you'll know if you follow my market reports). Anyway, the result of this population explosion has been that West High School is running over-capacity and the school district needs to find a long term solution for that. The committee set up to work through this process is expected to decide on the new boundary lines by mid April. (It's a hot button issue, so the timeline may change depending on the court of public opinion!)
Right about now you're probably wondering where I'm going with this... Bear with me, I'm getting there... This is all leading up to me sharing a map with the locations of the public schools in the Iowa City School District. This is something I've wanted to do for a while to help folks relocating to the area - It just took me some time to figure out the best way to do it. I have color coded the markers based on location and type of school. And when you click on the markers you'll find the address for the school, phone number and a link to their website.
Now getting back to the subject of redistricting: If you are relocating to the area you need to be aware that these redistricting changes are in the pipeline. To avoid surprises you should ask if these changes are likely to impact your child. Also, Roosevelt Elementary is closing in 2012 and a new school will be built a few blocks away on Camp Cardinal Rd.
The ICCSD website has the most up to date information on how the boundary line redistricting debate is progressing. Definitely worth checking out.
The link above is to a full page version of a map of public schools in the Iowa City School District. Below is a mini version. This of course is without any consideration to redistricting. That's something that certainly won't happen overnight.
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