Las Cruces Students Must Pick High School
Due to newly approved attendance boundaries for the new Centennial High School, about 1,100 Las Cruces students must decide in the coming weeks which high school they will attend next school year.
The Las Cruces Board of Education on Tuesday approved changes to the existing boundaries for Las Cruces, Mayfield and Onate high schools, and students who live in the redistricted areas to declare their choice of schools by Jan. 13. Eighth-, ninth- and 10th-graders, must decide whether they will attend Centennial or remain at the high school in their current attendance zone.
“The school board wanted to ensure that families that are impacted by the new boundaries have flexibility and choices,” Superintendent Stan Rounds said. “We will give that leeway during the next two months by allowing the impacted students to choose their high school.”
If the redistricted students decide to remain in their current high schools, rather than going to Centennial, their transfers will be automatically approved as long as they fill out their declaration forms by the Jan. 13 deadline. Students who do not meet that deadline will be automatically assigned to Centennial, Rounds said.
However, redistricted students who choose to stay at their current school will not be provided bus transportation, said Jo Galvan, director of LCPS communications.
“The bus transportation for redistricted students follows the district’s existing transportation guidelines,” Galvan said. “The redistricted students who will receive bus transportation are those who will attend their new designated school — Centennial.”
Parents will receive information on new attendance boundaries, a declaration form to sign and return to their current school registrars/counselors, a question-and-answer sheet about transfers and an informational flyer about Centennial High School.
Students who were not redistricted but want to attend Centennial or another school out of their home attendance zone, will need to fill out a transfer application during the district’s standard high school transfer period, Feb. 1-April 15.
