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Home Park Torn on APS Redistricting Proposals

Neighborhood not sure about new options.

Some Home Park residents are unsure what the latest school redistricting proposals would mean for the neighborhood.

In both proposals released late Friday, the approximately 1,200 households of Home Park would be zoned out of the desirable Grady High School cluster. Currently, Home Park kids go to , and .

"I think it’s safe to say that at the moment the neighborhood is divided and/or still figuring out what the new proposals would mean," Dan Noyd, president of the Home Park Community Improvement Association, said Monday in an email.

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Under the new proposals, Centennial Place would be rezoned to the new North Atlanta middle and high schools in the Buckhead area. Some residents think the change could be negative, since the schools are much farther in distance than Inman and Grady.

"The bottom line is that I think Home Park/Georgia Tech should fight to keep our kids in the feeder/cluster system that they're in," Home Park resident Kathy Boehmer said Monday in an email. "There is no good reason to pull them out of our community ... APS needs to look at keeping neighborhoods together, not splitting them."

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But some Home Park leaders think the new APS proposals are far better than , which rezoned Centennial Place to Kennedy Middle School and Frederick Douglass High School.

Several school officials and Home Park residents said those original proposals would have been to Centennial Place and could placed Home Park in "."

"The new options are definitely better than what was proposed previously (Kennedy & Douglass)," Noyd said. "However, whether they are better/worse or just different than what we have now (Inman & Grady) is up for debate."

A will be held Monday night at 6:30 p.m. at Jackson High School to discuss the new options.

More information about the APS redistricting is online.


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