With the recent Atlanta Public Schools Demographic Study, and the 4 original options that have been proposed, many people have been left confused over how it will affect their school, their neighborhood, or their home search if they are looking for a home in particular school.  While we talked about the expansions, construction of new schools and closing of other schools, it important to note that each of the plans calls for redrawing of the school lines.  There is a great tool out there that a community member has created that maps out the changes to the elementary schools for each of the 4 APS options in Layers.  Keep in mind that the official maps are located at the APS Demographic Study Website, but this tool is great.  You can zoom in and out to street level and toggle between the layers of what the current school boundaries are and what the proposed boundaries are for each of the 4 options.

Here is a breakdown of how Morris Brandon Elementary Boundaries will look with each of the 4 options.

Option 1

• Mainly the whole neighborhood of Ridgewood Heights, Fernleaf and the part of Underwood Hills that was in Morris Brandon will now be attending Bolton Academy
• The rest of the school boundaries remain the same

Option 2

• Similar to option on, except that Ridgewood Heights will remain in Morris Brandon

• Fernleaf and the parts of Underwood Hills that are currently in Morris Brandon will be attending Bolton Academy

Option 3

• Rigdewood Heights, Fernleaf and the part of Underwood Hills that was in MB will remain in Morris Brandon
• The neighborhoods in the northeast corner of the current MB boundaries will be rezoned to Rivers Elementary.  These neighborhoods are all of Arden/Habersham, Argonne Forest, Wyngate, and part of Peachtree Heights West.
• A small sliver of Peachtree Heights West will be rezoned to Garden Hills Elementary as well which will be the homes located between Cherokee Rd – Slaton and Peachtree as East West Boundaries and between W Wesley and W Paces Ferry on the North/South boundaries

Option 4

• This will be the same boundary changes as option 3 except it will rezone the small neighborhood of Channing Valley to Rivers Elementary from Morris Brandon.