About 75 to 100 students who currently attend Dishman-McGinnis Elementary School would be moved to Parker-Bennett-Curry Elementary School next school year under a redistricting plan discussed at the district’s board of education meeting Monday.

“We are currently looking at any streets north of Glen Lily moving over to Parker-Bennett-Curry,” Bowling Green Independent School District Superintendent Gary Fields told the board.

Although the plan is preliminary, Fields described it as “imperative” and said it would help alleviate overcrowding at Dishman-McGinnis. The school has an enrollment of about 500 students in a building that’s built for its current capacity.

There are about 320 students at Parker-Bennett-Curry, Fields said in a follow-up interview. He told the board that school has classroom space to spare.

In an email, BGISD spokeswoman Leslie McCoy said letters will be sent home to parents as early as this week.

Fields said the district will hold forums Feb. 26 at Dishman-McGinnis and Feb. 28 at Parker-Bennett-Curry. Both will be at 6:30 p.m.

The board won’t reach a final decision on the plan until its March or April meeting, Fields said, but he made it clear at the meeting that he hopes the board will vote in favor of the move. He cited what he described as rapid development growth in multifamily properties in the area.

“We anticipate that that enrollment will keep rising,” he said, referring to Dishman-McGinnis.

Dishman-McGinnis Principal Michael Wix agreed. Although the school doesn’t like moving students, “we are at a point where we’re significantly overcrowded,” he said.

Fields also noted that, after recently prioritizing equity in a districtwide improvement plan, moving the students to Parker-Bennett-Curry would help equalize enrollments at the district’s elementary schools.

“That then provides five elementary schools that are all within a very close range of enrollment, between 400 and 425 (students),” he said.

In other business, the board approved the purchase of three school buses for a total of $269,355. They will be ready for the start of the next school year, Fields said.

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