The Tooele County School Board Tuesday added Stansbury High School to the list of schools that are closed to new applications for open enrollment.
The school board also approved the organization of an advisory committee to review school boundaries.
“We can’t continue to do business as usual and feel good about best practices for kids,” said Scott Rogers, Tooele County School District superintendent. “We are putting portables in some areas where we have overcrowding.”
Stansbury High, with an enrollment of 1,602 students, has a capacity of 1,600 and currently has two double-room portables and one single-room portable.
State law allows parents to apply for open enrollment to send their children to any school in the district as long as there is room at the school.
Currently, 177 students that live in Tooele High School’s boundary area, and 19 students in Grantsville High School’s boundary area, attend SHS.
The board’s action will not affect those students, however.
“Students already attending Stansbury High School from other school boundary areas will be allowed to stay at Stansbury High School,” said Rogers. “We will also continue to take open enrollment applications from their siblings so families can keep their children in the same school.”
Board member Scott Bryan pointed out that closing SHS to new open enrollment applications means students who now attend Clarke Johnson Junior High School and are in Tooele High’s boundary area will go to THS not SHS.
Last year the school board closed Rose Springs and Stansbury Elementary Schools to new open enrollment applications.
Rose Springs currently has an enrollment of 851 students and a capacity of 675 students. Stansbury Elementary has an enrollment of 904 students and a capacity of 800 students.
All other schools in the district are open to applications for open enrollment.
The school board also approved a request from Rogers to approve the formation of an advisory committee to review all school boundaries.
That committee will meet starting in January. Who will be on the committee has not been determined.
“We need to look at boundaries,” said Rogers. “We can’t justify bonding for new buildings when we have 14,000 students and 18,000 seats.”