Long Beach School Boundaries May Change
By Kevin Butler, Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif.
Jun. 5–LONG BEACH — The city’s Board of Education tonight is set to approve enrollment boundaries for its new elementary and middle schools opening this fall.
The five-member board will decide whether to accept boundary changes that would affect a total of four schools.
The newly constructed Dooley Elementary School is scheduled to open this fall at 5075 Long Beach Blvd., near Del Amo Boulevard. This will allow the district to convert Sutter Elementary to a middle school, to be renamed Perry Lindsey Middle School, in honor of the first African-American principal in the Long Beach Unified School District.
If the board approves the proposal, Dooley Elementary would have the same enrollment boundaries as those of Sutter Elementary, located at 5075 Daisy Ave.
Boundaries for Lindsey Middle School will be created by dividing Lindbergh Middle School’s current enrollment area at Atlantic Avenue, with the west portion of that boundary belonging to Lindsey.
Current students living in the new boundary would be allowed to continue attending the school in which they are now enrolled. New students in the boundary and incoming sixth-graders would be assigned to Lindsey.
All students currently enrolled at Sutter in kindergarten through fourth grade next school year will begin attending Dooley Elementary, named for a family that owned a hardware store that formerly occupied the site.
The proposal also includes a minor change to the northern boundary of Lindbergh Middle School, located at 1022 E. Market Street. The proposal calls for shifting that boundary further north, from 60th to 61st Street.
Students living in that narrow area are now assigned to Hamilton Middle School, at 1060 E. 70th Street.
Current students living in that area could opt to continue at the school in which they are now enrolled. New students in the boundary and incoming sixth-graders would be assigned to Lindbergh.
That change is expected to affect about 100 students.
In the LBUSD, parents under the “school-of-choice” rules can apply to have their children attend a district school outside their home school’s enrollment area.
If parents opt to send their child to another school, the parents are responsible for the child’s transportation.
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