Faced with “stark” projections for declining enrollment at elementary schools, Boulder Valley leaders are working on a plan to gather community feedback on options that could include consolidating schools, moving magnet schools or reconfiguring grade levels.

The school district’s elementary schools were designed around three classes, or rounds, per grade level. But that’s no longer the reality for the majority of schools. At the same time, Superintendent Rob Anderson said, the community expectation is that elementary schools continue to “have all of the things that come with the number of students in a three round school.”

Now, with teachers and other staff members allocated schools based on enrollment numbers, smaller schools have less flexibility, more travelling teachers and more part

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