Worcester Public Schools held its first of several community forums about the recently-launched School Boundary and Quadrant Alignment Project.
The first meeting was held March 23 at South High Community School, which brought about 150 attendees: parents, caregivers, staff, and community members.
Facilitated by Dillinger Research and Applied Data, a non-profit research and data analysis organization, the project is District Goal #3 for this school year, and will continue through 2027-28.
Through the project, the district will consider adjusting school boundaries and related systems to more efficiently assign students to schools and improve the experiences of students and families. This could include a student’s walk to school, the school they are assigned to, and various feeder patterns.
The project seeks to:
Reduce the student population in schools that are over capacity
Increase the student population in schools that are under-enrolled
Ensure school programming aligns with each school’s building capacity, along with student and community needs
Improve school feeder patterns (meaning the series of schools students matriculate to based on their residential addresses)
And improve citywide/magnet school designations to best reflect the needs of the community
Visit the project website, worcesterschools.org/alignment, which will be continuously updated with more information throughout the life of the project.