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Interactive Boundary Maps

The Kent School District is implementing new school boundaries for the 2023-2024 school year. This is an opportunity to balance enrollment districtwide and continue to build positive school cultures that nurture and inspire student success. Our school leaders are excited about this opportunity and are eagerly preparing to welcome incoming students. This includes hosting an open house prior to the special transfer window for families impacted by the boundary changes. This will be a time for students and families to learn more about their new boundary school. 

The boundary changes, in most cases, will reduce time students spend on buses; remove most of our students from learning in portables; and take enrollment pressure off our highest impacted schools and communities. With these?benefits in mind for the entire school district, we are excited to communicate the following steps in our boundary implementation process: 

• New boundaries are based on your physical home address in the boundary area for each school. 
• Every family will receive letters with their students’ placement for the 2023-2024 school year. Multilingual families will receive additional communication based on their language preference in Skyward. 
• There will be a special transfer request window in January, specifically for students and families impacted by the boundary changes. This opportunity will occur before all other transfer windows open. 
• We will work to accommodate transfer requests as much as we are able, however, there is no guarantee a transfer will be granted.
• Notification of in-district transfer approval/denial will be communicated in February of 2023.  

Inclusive Education 

Beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, the boundary committee has recommended adding several programs at all levels in several schools, ensuring that our students have the opportunity to access those programs in their boundary school or in their feeder strand. The boundary committee believes moving forward with these recommendations is best for our students, families, and schools.