Maps Show School’s Attendance Area

Maps showing which streets will be included in--and excluded from--the attendance boundaries of the new Lang Ranch Elementary School will be available to the public Dec. 5 at the Conejo Valley Unified School District offices on Janss Road.

The school board has set a special meeting for 6:30 p.m. Dec. 9 to hear from the district’s facilities director, Sean Corrigan, about any changes he has made in his original attendance boundary proposal. The public will get a chance to ask questions and make comments before trustees vote.

At the board’s Nov. 18 meeting, nearly 100 parents complained that their homes near the new school site had been wrongly excluded from the proposed boundaries, and that their children would be unable to attend the new, modern Lang Ranch school, which is scheduled to open next fall.

Residents of Parkview and Laurelwood drives were especially upset, that because their streets feed directly into the new school, and yet, but their homes were not included in Corrigan’s original map.

Corrigan told the board that he worked out the attendance boundaries according to a city plan created in 1986. He added that those homes were never included in the city’s Lang Ranch Specific Plan. But many residents told the board that they had been promised by developers and unnamed school officials that their children would attend the new school.

After listening to more than an hour of complaints, trustees directed Corrigan to consider altering the boundaries.