The board voted 7-0 on the changes, which would establish “choice zones” in and near Louisville’s West End and central business district to give families options to send their children to middle and high schools closer to their homes, align school boundaries with high school enrollment borders to better streamline student progression and expand magnet offerings to a more diverse population of students.

The revisions, released Monday, affect proposed assignment boundaries for Atherton High, Ballard High, Fern Creek High, Jeffersontown High and Waggener High.

Instead of Bardstown Road running through the middle of the school’s boundary, the proposal calls for Bardstown Road to divide Atherton’s and Waggener High’s enrollment zones. 

Superintendent Marty Pollio gave his fourth annual “State of the District” address Thursday at the newly renovated Academy @ Shawnee auditorium, part of some $40 million in renovations at the middle and high school in Louisville’s West End.

The proposal for dual “resides” middle and high schools, which indicate which JCPS schools students can automatically enroll in, in satellite areas primarily in the city’s west end has been discussed as a means to improve choice for some of the district’s most underprivileged students.

JCPS Superintendent Marty Pollio floated the idea during Tuesday’s Student Assignment Review Advisory Committee meeting.