Redistricting Advisory Committee Seeking Members

Community Members Invited to Serve on Redistricting Advisory Committee for Agnor-Hurt, Greer & Woodbrook Elementary Schools

(ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Virginia) – Albemarle County Public Schools is seeking community representatives to serve on a redistricting advisory committee to address overcrowding at Agnor-Hurt and Greer elementary schools. Students would relocate to an expanded Woodbrook Elementary School, beginning with the 2018-19 school year.

Over the past five years, enrollment for these schools has increased by 250 students, and projections indicate that enrollment increases will continue. To address the need for more classroom space, the School Board proposed the equivalent of a 16-classroom addition to be built at Woodbrook in time for the 2018-19 school year. Albemarle County voters approved the use of general obligation bonds to finance the project in a referendum last November.

The Woodbrook addition would increase the capacity of the school by about 300 seats, moving the entire school’s capacity to nearly 600 students. This expansion is projected to serve the capacity needs of the urban ring elementary schools for at least the next 10 years.

Specifically, the redistricting advisory committee is asked to develop recommendations that address current and projected overcrowding at the three schools and to consider middle school student assignments that might be impacted by a change in elementary school attendance boundaries. Several guiding principles were set forth by the School Board:

Also, the School Board said that the committee should seek to achieve student demographic balance among all three schools, and it directed that the committee refrain from proposing the grandfathering of any students. The Board will retain that option.

The redistricting committee will consist of 12 community members: two apiece from the Agnor-Hurt, Greer, and Woodbrook school communities; one representative each from the Burley and Jouett middle school communities; and two at-large representatives. The final two members will be appointed from the school division’s Long-Range Planning Advisory Committee and its Equity and Diversity Committee.

Appointments to the committee will be made by Superintendent Dr. Pamela R. Moran by August, and the committee will hold two meetings per month in September, October and November. The committee’s final recommendations to the Superintendent will inform her redistricting recommendations to the School Board in December.

The Board will hold a public hearing on the redistricting proposal in January and will make a decision that month. A transition plan for the families who will be involved in the process will begin in February, and students will attend their new school beginning in August of 2018, when the Woodbrook addition is scheduled to be completed.

For information on the 2017 Redistricting Advisory Committee and to download an application, visit:

Applications must be received by the School Board Clerk via email, fax, or postal mail no later than noon on Friday, July 14, 2017. Additional submission details are provided on the application.