The Grand Island Independent Grand Island is a community in which neighborhood identity is extremely important. Those neighborhoods are built around the elementary schools located throughout the community. Those neighborhoods are built around the elementary schools located throughout the community. Such knowledge is important for the Grand Island school board to keep at the top of its awareness as it goes through the difficult process of changing school boundaries. The boundary changes involve the Newell, Jefferson, Dodge, Wasmer and Starr school districts and the reason for making changes makes some sense.
Some schools are overcrowded.
Other schools have the capacity to take on extra students. The school board wants to see class sizes kept at a reasonable number to enable students to receive the optimum education possible. But Grand Island should have learned an important lesson from the Lincoln School bond issue. The matters of neighborhood identity and school loyalty are just as important as class size and cost-effective measures by the school system. The boundary changes under consideration are significant ones and involve a sizable number of Grand Island families.