Lincoln High School classroom
Rob Manning / OPB
Portland and Beaverton school districts are planning to change where children attend school. Parents in both places will see school boundary proposals for the first time Thursday night.
Beaverton and Portland are both planning for growth.
Portland officials are preparing at least two scenarios with complicated goals: to relieve crowding at some schools and increase enrollment at others. Portland's K-8 system could give way to separate elementary and middle schools. Changes would start to take effect districtwide in fall 2016.
Beaverton wants to balance enrollment, too, but it's adding a new high school at the same time. Drawing a boundary around a new South Cooper Mountain High School creates a domino effect, involving Beaverton's five other high schools.
Unlike Portland, Beaverton would take boundary changes for elementary schools separately after it's done high schools. Elementary and high school changes would take effect in Fall 2017.
Beaverton middle school boundaries would wait until later, possibly years later. Both Portland and Beaverton are planning a series of meetings before boundary changes are finalized.
