Which Dublin schools will be affected by new boundaries
DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) -- Dublin City Schools is redrawing the neighborhood boundaries for its elementary and middle schools, as the district is readying to expand an existing high school and open a new elementary school.
The district is collaborating with Cropper GIS, a central Ohio-based consultant specializing in school planning, to outline each elementary and middle school's new boundary. Possible zones will be presented later this fall, and community members will be able to give feedback through a survey and during an input session at Jerome High School on Oct. 21.
Dublin's goal is to have the new boundaries formally published by January, then have the boundaries go into effect at the start of the 2025-2026 school year. The redistricting is needed given Dublin is one of the fastest growing districts in central Ohio.
The district's upcoming Bishop Elementary will be overcapacity when the building opens next fall, said John Marschhausen, superintendent of Dublin schools, during a city planning meeting earlier this summer. Marschhausen also noted Eversole Run Middle School and Abraham Depp Elementary already use modulars for overflow.
Eversole Run and Abraham Depp are among the eight schools the district is anticipating will be impacted by redistricting, including the following:
- Deer Run Elementary
- Glacier Ridge Elementary
- Pinney Elementary
- Grizzell Middle School
- Karrer Middle School
- Sells Middle School
Elementary and middle school students, including rising 5th graders, will not be permitted to remain at their current school if they are impacted by the new boundaries. The district's website reiterates that all students and their siblings will attend school in the attendance area outlined in the redistricting plan.
Marschhausen also announced last month that the district is pursuing a 60,000-square-foot addition to Dublin Scioto High School. The superintendent said the expansion would allow the district to shift 500 to 600 students to Scioto, helping alleviate an anticipated increase in high school enrollment throughout the next decade.
"Our enrollment projections indicate, by moderate projection, that we'll have 2,000 new high school students by 2034," said Marschhausen during an August meeting. "We're still going to need room for about 1,500 additional students by 2034. But, this is the short-term solution."
When at capacity, Scioto currently is home to about 1,400 students, while Dublin Coffman serves 2,000 and Dublin Jerome has 2,400. Dublin schools aims to break ground on the Scioto addition next summer, with a targeted opening for August 2026.
Once the elementary and middle school redistricting process is nearing completion, the district said it will begin redrawing the boundaries for its high school. However, no work will be done on high school redistricting until after the new year, and answers about how boundaries will shift will not be available until the summer of 2025.
The Scioto expansion announcement came after the district said it was pausing a nonbinding agreement with Cardinal Health the buy the 250,000-square-foot west campus headquarters at 7200 Cardinal Place for $37 million.
Marschhausen paused the Cardinal agreement after the city's planning commission signaled they were unsupportive of the zoning changes needed to repurpose the building. Dublin schools had entered into the purchase agreement earlier this year, which allowed the district more than a year to determine if the building can be effectively configured to serve as a school.
“The Cardinal Health building is something that is going to require collaboration and ongoing conversations with our partners at the city and our largest employer and business in Dublin,” said Marschhausen. “There is a mutual commitment between the three of us to have these conversations in search of a long-term solution.”