The Maricopa Unified School District board last night outlined a plan for setting attendance boundaries for its first K-8 school.

The boundaries determine which neighborhoods and streets will feed into the new school planned for the Sorrento neighborhood , with the goal of ensuring it has balanced enrollment and efficient transportation.

A boundary committee will meet for the first time next month to review demographic reports, study existing attendance zones and draft scenarios for how the new school will be integrated into the district’s map, explained Tracey Pastor, MUSD20’s director of administrative services.

“This committee will be made up for an administrator, staff, parents, community members and students,” she said to the board, adding they will “ultimately recommend boundari

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