Central Unified School District has finalized new boundary maps for the 2025-26 school year.
It helps redistribute students as a new elementary school is set to open and as changes are made to the high schools.
Construction is well underway at Shields and Brawley in northwest Fresno for a currently unnamed elementary school that is set to open in the fall of 2025.
That’s the same time newly created school boundaries will go into effect across the district.
“This is a great place to live and raise your kids, and we’ve got to have school ready to welcome them in,” Superintendent Ketti Davis said.
Davis says the new boundaries help determine which students will attend the new school.
It also addresses future population problems at Herndon-Barstow Elementary and reduces the number of students at Justin Garza High School.
“While it, by equation, has enough space for 2,500 students, anyone who is on that campus, just because of the traffic and the footprint says that’s just too many students. It’s hustling, over flowing for us,” Davis said.