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Mint Hill town officials have endorsed a locally-created school boundary plan for the new Mint Hill High School.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has a staff-recommended boundary plan with a June 9 scheduled vote. However, Mint Hill officials and town residents have made it clear they don't like the CMS plan.
So Thursday night commissioners unanimously endorsed the locally-created plan.
The $53 million Mint Hill High School will be on Truelight Church Road and is scheduled to open in fall 2010. It is being designed to relieve overcrowding at Butler, Independence and East Mecklenburg high schools.
Planning staff from Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools proposed the school boundaries that include the new school earlier in May. Since then, Mint Hill citizens and leaders have created a different plan.
That proposal would:
Set boundaries for Mint Hill High School along the southeastern edge of Mecklenburg County. That district would include the Lebanon Road area, Bain School area and Clear Creek (east and west of Blair Road).
Span Independence High boundaries from Albemarle Road northward through the area surrounding J.H. Gunn and into Reedy Creek.
Extend Butler High's district along the southern part of the county, taking in Matthews and on to Idlewild Road. It would extend past Crown Point and into the Piney Grove area.
Give East Mecklenburg the Oakhurst, Rama Road area, Lansdowne and the Greenway Park areas.
In a resolution, Mint Hill commissioners said “…Based on the overwhelming desire to keep Mint Hill citizens in Mint Hill schools, the Town has determined that a boundary plan which would keep students from all three Mint Hill elementary schools together for high school while maintaining contiguous high school boundaries would be the best option for the vast majority of Mint Hill's students…”
Commissioners are encouraging town residents to attend the meeting to show support for the local plan.
To view a map of the local plan, go online to:
www.minthill.com.
You also look at the CMS proposals by going online to:
www.cms.k12.nc.us/cmsdepartments/StudentPlacement
-- Cliff Harrington
