The Atlanta Public School System’s latest Demographic study and preliminary proposals for redrawing school attendance boundary lines has been a hotly debated topic so far, and we’re only about half way through it now. The outcome of how the school boundary lines turn out could have serious implications for homeowners in the City of Atlanta both from resale value of their home as well as the parents’ perceived value of their children’s education.
Many homeowners and parents in Atlanta and Buckhead specifically, have lost sleep since the beginning of December when the 4 options for how the elementary school lines could be redrawn, but it appears that the Warren T. Jackson Elementary School lines have remained untouched in all four of the first proposals. Warren T. Jackson enjoys a very good reputation among public elementary schools and many home buying decisions were based on the home falling inside of Warren T. Jackson school boundary lines. For that to change could very possibly mean the drop in demand for the area and thus a drop in home values.
Next week, from January 30-February 2nd, the next round of the Demographic Study will be released and socialized among the community. The committee is expected to bring two or three new options to the meetings, based on the feedback they had gathered from the original four options, so everything could change, but all-in-all, it looks like Jackson parents and homeowners will likely be unaffected for the most part at least when it comes to Elementary School boundary lines.
If you’d like to see a great tool developed by a member of the community which shows layered maps of the 4 proposed changes, check out this site. You can toggle between layer for each option to see what the boundaries look like for each option. The Official Maps can be found at the APS Demographic Study site.
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