GARDEN GROVE : Schools’ Attendance Boundaries Changed

In a move to balance enrollment at intermediate schools and ease overcrowding at two elementary schools, the Garden Grove Unified School District board has approved attendance boundary changes that will affect about 336 students.

“We have growth in sections of the district where we had no classroom space, so we’re moving them to a section where we do have classroom space,” district spokesman Alan Trudell said.

The board unanimously approved the proposal at its meeting last week. The plan, which aims to balance enrollment at eight intermediate schools and relieve overcrowding at Heritage and John Marshall elementary schools, will go into effect at the beginning of the 1991-92 school year. About 91 intermediate school students and 245 elementary school students will, as a result, switch schools next year.

Under the plan, a small portion of James Irvine Intermediate School’s attendance area has been shifted to Donald S. Jordan Intermediate School, and one section each from the James Irvine and Stephen R. Fitz intermediate schools’ attendance areas will become part of McGarvin Intermediate School’s boundaries. The intermediate school changes will affect seventh-graders only for 1991-92.

Additionally, the southern portion of the Heritage Elementary School attendance area will be reassigned to Leo Carrillo Elementary School, while the northern portion of the Heritage area and part of the John Marshall Elementary School area will be incorporated into the Thomas Paine Elementary School attendance boundaries.