The Guilford County Schools Redistricting Steering Committee gave its blessing Monday to a proposal that could radically alter the feeder zone configuration drawn by the steering committee. Specifically, the steering committee, which is overseeing the countywide redrawing of school attendance lines, approved a request from the Feeder Zone 3 mapping committee to meet with Feeder Zone 2 to consider moving or removing entirely the boundary line between the two feeder zones. A feeder zone is a large geographical area containing at least two high schools.
Elementary schools feed middle schools within the zone and middle schools feed the high schools.
The steering committee divided Guilford county into five feeder zones. The mapping committees are responsible for drawing new school attendance lines in each feeder zone. The Zone 3 mapping committee is drawing attendance lines in east Greensboro and east and southeast Guilford County. Curl said Zone 3 committee members want to remove the boundary line, which now extends north along U.S. 29 and then east, following Buffalo Creek. This would result in a four-feeder zone configuration for the county schools, and would certainly change the way attendance lines are being drawn in Zone 2.