The Horry County Board of Education is moving forward with plans for attendance lines for the new River Oaks Elementary School Monday night.
The school is slated to open for the Fall 2012 school year.
The school board heard preliminary plans for River Oaks Elementary School about a week prior, which will serve Carolina Forest. The plan takes more than 100 Carolina Forest Elementary students from an area southwest of Highways 501 and 31. It also takes more than 450 students from Ocean Bay Elementary from an area bordered by Highway 31, Burcale Road, and the Intracoastal Waterway.
The Horry County Board of Education has also been discussing rezoning or possible plans for relieving overcrowding at some of the schools in Carolina Forest.
NewsChannel 15 has been following this story since the school board began meeting on the rezoning in April.
About 15 percent of the schools in the district are above capacity. Some of those are in the Carolina Forest area, which has had a population boom over the past few years.
Board members say they are still considering several options to relieve the overcrowding. The latest, introduced at a retreat on October 3rd.
would be to reutilize Ocean Bay Middle school so is not overcrowded and make program changes at Blackwater Middle to attract students.
An initial proposal suggested sending a majority of kids who complete Carolina Forest Elementary to Black Water Middle School instead of Ocean Bay Middle School starting in the 2012-2013 school year.
That upset many members of the Carolina Forest Civic Association. They have been lobbying the board since this summer, and one member has created a Facebook group with more than 160 members.
