The Rio Rancho Board of Education has set boundaries for seven of 10 Rio Rancho elementary schools and for middle schools for the 2008-09 school year.

The board adopted the following changes included in the recommended Elementary Option 15C (see maps):

• Establishment of attendance boundaries for Cielo Azul Elementary School
• Reuniting the North Hills neighborhood north of Kings Rd. and Pine St. at Colinas del Norte Elementary.  Some North Hills students had been assigned to Stapleton.
• Moving the northern end of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School attendance area north of Abrazo Rd. from MLK to Stapleton Elementary, to provide enrollment relief at MLK.

Boundary Maps: Choose the map you wish to see below (pdf).

• All Elementary Schools
• Individual Elementaries: CDN | CAE | EHE | ESE | MLK | MCE | PDS | RRE | SVE | VGE
• All Middle Schools
• Individual Middle Schools: ERMS | LMS | MVMS
• High Schools (View the location map)

At the middle school level, the board adopted a recommended change to move students on the west side of the district, west of 10th St. between 28th Ave. and Northern Blvd., to Eagle Ridge Middle School.  These students were being bused to Mountain View Middle School, and the move will relieve enrollment at Mountain View and allow the students in the affected area to attend a school located much closer to their neighborhood.

The board did not approve the move of the northern end of the Lincoln MS zone north of Abrazo Rd. to Eagle Ridge.  The move had been suggested to maintain feeder alignment for students transferred from MLK to Stapleton in the elementary process.  Parents in the area indicated they would rather remain at Lincoln and the board decided not to make the change at this time.  The district will undertake a major review of middle school boundaries in the fall of 2008 for changes that would take effect in the 2009-10 school year.