KSD Planning for Growth

Your input on this survey is important. Please submit before November 10, 2016.

The following is a series of questions relating to the development of a facilities master plan for the Kuna School District. A committee of patrons, students and employees are working on the development of the plan and would greatly appreciate your feedback. Your specific and thoughtful responses will help us determine what facility improvements are necessary in order to develop a learning environment which is supportive of the educational philosophy, programs and needs of our schools. Please review the following information before responding to the survey questions.

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* 1. I am....

A Kuna School District student

A Kuna School District staff member

A patron with no children in the District

A patron with children in the District

A concerned citizen who lives outside of District

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* 2. To accommodate anticipated growth at the elementary level, please rank the following options in order of preference, 1-6, with 1 being most preferred and 6 being least preferred.

Change attendance boundaries at the elementary schools to better use existing classroom space

Move 6th grade to the present middle school and/or a new middle school

Add classrooms and increase enrollment at present elementary schools

Build at least one new elementary school

A combination of two or more of the above

Other (*add your suggestions on #8)

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* 3. To accommodate anticipated growth at the middle school level, please rank the following options in order of preference, 1-5, with 1 being most preferred and 5 being least preferred.

Convert an existing building into a middle school

Build an additional middle school

Build a new grades K-8 magnet school (example: a technology or arts school)

Create a 6-12 magnet based school (example: Synergy, STEM, arts)

Other (*add your suggestions on #8)

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* 4. To accommodate anticipated growth at the high school level, please rank the following options in order of preference, 1-5, with 1 being most preferred and 5 being least preferred.

Convert adjacent buildings into additional high school facilities for selected programs and/or grades

Develop and/or build a new specialized career and technical high school (example: health care, auto mechanics, technology, etc.)

Build the first phase of a second general, grades 9-12 District high school

Create a 6-12 magnet based school (example: Synergy, STEM, arts)

Other (*add your suggestions on #8)

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* 5. Please rank the following Kuna School District facility issues in order of greatest importance, with 1 being most important and 6 being least important.

School overcrowding and increasing enrollment

Lack of specialized educational programs and related facilities
( career and technical, etc.)

Elementary building grade configurations

Secondary building grade configurations

Older building maintenance and modernization

Other (*add your suggestions on #8)

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* 6. Please indicate your preferred secondary grade configuration

Grades 6,7, and 8 Middle School / Grades 9-12 High School
(with some degree of 6th grade segregation)

Grades 7 and 8 Middle School / Grades 9-12 High School

Grades 7,8, and 9 Middle School / Grades 10-12 High School
(with some degree of 9th grade segregation)

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* 7. To accommodate ongoing District growth, I would support passage of a school bond for a mixture of school remodeling, addition, and new construction work…

Under no circumstance

Only if the bond did not increase my current tax rate

Regardless of whether there was a modest tax increase or not

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* 8. Other - please add any suggestions you had when you marked 'other' in your answers

Thank you for your help! Your input will be taken directly to members of the community serving on the Master Plan Task Force. We anticipate a presentation of future plans to the Board of Trustees in mid-December.