DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) -- After unveiling new elementary and middle school maps last year, Dublin City Schools is readying to redraw high school boundaries in 2025 as construction begins to expand an existing high school.
The district is again collaborating with Cropper GIS, a consultant specializing in school planning that aided in remaking the elementary and middle school boundaries announced in December, to now outline each high school's map. John Marschhausen, superintendent of Dublin schools, said redistricting is needed given Jerome High School's enrollment is disproportionally growing compared to Scioto and Coffman high schools.
Dublin director’s commercial will air during Super Bowl LIX"As we look at the distribution of high school students across Dublin, we're looking at less than 1,500 kids at Scioto, over 1,800 kids at Coffman, and approaching 2,100 students at Jerome," the superintendent said at a Jan. 13 board of education meeting. "Jerome's gonna continue to grow. If we don't do anything, this distribution of students and these gaps will only continue to rise."
Marschhausen noted that redistricting will not just shift 500 students over to Scioto, but rather remove about 600 from Jerome and delegate half to Coffman and the other half to Scioto. This process, which will mark the first redistricting of Dublin's high schools since 2006, is expected to eventually even out the district's three high schools to house about 2,000 students each.
Dublin families can expect a webinar on the redistricting process to be hosted by Marschhausen and Cropper GIS in April. When class is back in session this fall, the district will host a public input session at each high school followed by a month of feedback collection. In November, Dublin will unveil the final high school maps before the district begins planning in late December for the following school year.
New high school boundaries will take effect at the start of the 2026-2027 year. Rising sophomores through seniors will be allowed to remain at the high school they are enrolled, the superintendent said. That means this year's eighth graders will be permitted to stay at the high school they begin attending this upcoming fall.
Dublin plan to revamp Metro Center office district could include this mixed-use project"This a plan that can last us at least until into the mid or early 2030s, anything after that is just a wild projection," said Marschhausen. "This is a solid plan. ... It balances the enrollment at the three high schools, it allows us to offer those similar opportunities at all three high schools, and we already have the money to do it."
Dublin schools is able to complete the redistricting due to a planned 60,000-square-foot Scioto expansion that will allow for 500 to 600 more students. Set to break ground May 22, the addition was announced last August after Marschhausen paused a nonbinding agreement to buy Cardinal Health's west campus headquarters. Since then, the district has formally withdrawn from the plan, which would've seen the building turned into a fourth Dublin high school.
Earlier in August, the city's planning commission signaled they were unsupportive of the zoning changes needed to repurpose Cardinal's building. Dublin schools had entered into the purchase agreement in spring 2024, which allowed the district more than a year to determine if the building could be configured to serve as a school.
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