February 10, 2000 Are our school children facing another change? New school boundaries presented By JaNAE FRANCIS_ Standard-Examiner staff SLATERVILLE/MARIOTT -- A study group formed to look at boundary adjustments in the Weber school district recently presented three scenarios which entail uprooting up to one-third of the district's junior high students. They are: to adjust boundaries, build a new elementary school in west Roy, and build a new junior high in the Harrisville area while building either one or two new elementary schools. The boundary shift scenario would cost about $1.6 million the first year in transportation costs. But officials said they included it because they get frequent suggestions from parents to redistribute the junior high students equally. "People say level all junior highs and draw boundaries where they may," said Lex Puffer, boundary study group chairman and district supervisor of secondary education. Puffer said the challenge in equalizing junior high enrollment is that while the district has space, it's in the wrong area. The plan includes all the district's junior highs except Snow-crest, which is in the Ogden Valley. The plan would move 342 North Ogden students to Wahlquist, 283 Wahlquist students to Rocky Mountain, 467 Rocky Mountain students to Roy, 379 Roy students to Sand Ridge, 193 Sand Ridge students to T.H. Bell and 39 T.H. Bell students to South Ogden. "With this plan, you would have only 100 students at Roy Junior High that are the same as the year before," Puffer said. At the high school level, the plan would move 84 students from Weber to Fremont, 306 stu-dents from Fremont to Roy and 136 students from Roy to Bonneville. Other boundary changes include shifting sixth graders to junior highs, putting ninth graders in high school and shifting Fremont High students to Roy. The plan to shift sixth-graders to junior highs would mean taking 100 Valley Elementary students to Snowcrest; 80 Valley View students to Sand Ridge; and 70 Riverdale students to T.H. Bell. Four hundred ninth-grade students from North Ogden Junior High and 120 Snowcrest Junior High students would move up to high schools. The second scenario would take 650 students from County View, Hooper, Kanesville, Midland, Municipal and Valley View elementaries to fill a proposed new elementary school in West Roy. At the junior high level, this scenario has five possibilities that would relieve overcrowding at Rocky Mountain Junior High and Fremont High School. That plan entails taking 150 students from Rocky Mountain and putting 50 into Roy Junior High and 100 into Sand Ridge. Roy High would receive 150 students from Fremont. The plan could take effect either by adjusting enrollment over time or immediately adjusting enrollment. Since the proposed new junior high school would feed into Weber High, 120 Fremont High students would transfer to Weber High. Puffer said the change would put Weber High over the 1,800 functional capacity of other district high schools, but said Weber was built to hold up to 2,175 students. 489