The Provo City School Board used mapping software during its Sept. 19 study session to review several test boundary scenarios for a small area of Provo where a single neighborhood (the Boulders/Lakewood area) is split among three elementary schools.
Transportation/district staff member Troy demonstrated live map adjustments and ran estimates of student moves and bus-route effects. Troy showed one option that would move portions of the Boulders area from Spring Creek’s feeders into Franklin or Sunset View and said the scenario would require additional unfunded bus routes.
Jared (board/administrator; comment) summarized current enrollments and impacts, saying "Spring Creek is at 426, and so a move would bring them well below 400. Franklin's enrollment is 338, and Sunset View is already over 600 — it's at 630." Troy’s routing simulations produced a projected net transfer of roughly 36 students for one swap, and staff said some options would require the district to add up to three unfunded bus routes (district-paid because they fall inside the state-funded mileage threshold).
Board members expressed concern about moving highly impacted households (intergenerational-poverty census areas) into Franklin while it remains in turnaround. Principal Brooke Dalby had earlier described the school’s active turnaround work and some early academic gains. Board members discussed delaying large boundary shifts to give the principal and staff time to stabilize the school and to accommodate pending city housing changes near Sunset View.
The board asked staff to prepare a narrower item for the Oct. business meeting limited to a small group of households on Upper Carterville Road, where a few homes are currently assigned to a school across a hill; multiple board members supported moving that specific cluster into a closer boundary and noted grandfathering or phased transitions might apply.
No boundary changes were adopted at the Sept. 19 study session. Staff said they will return with more refined options, costed transportation impacts (funded vs. unfunded routes) and community-notice plans before any public hearings.