School Board passes elementary boundary change

-- Suzie Harrison

To cheers and sighs of relief, the Laguna Beach Unified School

District Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved boundary line changes for

the city’s two elementary schools.

Earlier this month, Supt. Theresa Daem recommended the transfer of all

Club Laguna, The Terraces and California Cove students from Top of the

World Elementary School to El Morro Elementary School, including all

students in the district that live on the north side of El Toro Road.

El Morro has just undergone a $4-million renovation.

As the board voted unanimously in favor of the proposal, cheers went

up from the crowd of parents, faculty, and PTA members.

“I am very much in favor of what you are doing now,” said parent Mary

Derby Barton.

Months of meetings and hundreds of hours of research took place prior

to Daem’s recommendation. The district plans to help students, who are

having to change schools, get acclimated to their new surroundings.

“What is so nice about this community is everyone has an opinion,”

said board member El Hathaway. “All our schools score highly in API

testing. All the schools are in the category for excellence.”