Two meetings scheduled in January will continue the 2024-2025 school boundary study process that Wicomico County Public Schools has been actively engaged in for months and plans to conclude in February.
The first meeting will be a work session the morning of Friday, Jan. 10 (rescheduled from Jan. 7 and then from Jan. 9 due to weather and road conditions) with consultant Cropper GIS, which facilitated the School Boundary Planning Team process. Cropper GIS will be presenting to the Board of Education its recommendations – developed with public input from meetings, surveys and feedback forms – for changes to Wicomico’s school attendance boundaries.
This work session will be held in the Board of Education Auditorium at 101 Long Ave., Salisbury, and will begin immediately after a special open meeting that starts at 10:15 a.m. While public input will not be part of this meeting, the public is welcome to attend the work session or view it on livestream or later through the website at https://www.wicomicoschools.org/page/watch-board-meetings.
The recommendations to the Board of Education for school boundary changes are available to view on the website for the school system’s boundary study process, https://www.wcpsboundarystudy.org/. To see whether your address is included in the recommendations for boundary changes, please visit the interactive Webmap on this web page. You can also go directly to the Webmap at https://croppermap.com/wicomico/. Put in your street address and hit Enter to see the school attendance areas for your address. You may need to clear your browser history to see the attendance areas for the current recommendation.
The Board of Education will hold a public hearing on the recommendations for school attendance boundary changes at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14 at West Salisbury Elementary School. (The Jan. 14 Board of Education meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. to better accommodate families’ schedules for the hearing.) Following the public hearing, public input may also be submitted online until Monday, Feb. 3 using the general feedback forms on the website (https://www.wcpsboundarystudy.org/).
As a reminder, the boundary study process focuses on elementary school attendance areas, and related secondary school feeder patterns, to see where adjustments might help balance enrollment and relieve overcrowding. Addresses in the Delmar Elementary attendance area are not part of this boundary study due to the Bi-State Agreement.
A final vote on the recommendations for school boundary changes is planned for the Board of Education meeting on Feb. 11, with any school boundary changes taking effect for the 2025-2026 school year. The February Board of Education meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at 101 Long Ave., Salisbury.
