Her husband was one of those new employees, and that's what initially brought her family to the district. The influx hasn't let up since. Right now, we have overcrowding in all schools. Bentonville's 1,500-capacity high school will open this month. Naturally, there is uneven distribution of students in the four school districts.
Some schools are more crowded than others, depending on factors such as housing availability.
In Fayetteville, for instance, Washington Elementary in the downtown area is not as full because that area's housing market is fairly stable. Younger families are moving to areas where housing is available or more affordable, New said. Because some schools are more full than others, the four districts have no choice but to shuttle students away from their neighborhood schools to ones with fewer students. For several years in Rogers, a student who needed to be bused to another school was first brought to his neighborhood school, bused to a central location and then taken to the school that had room. The busing situation will ease somewhat this year because of a major revamp of district boundaries.