When you a buy a home one of the biggest factors in the decision making process is the location of schools. Now if you live in the Iowa City area you’ll know we have huge changes in the pipeline with the redistricting of the boundary lines for schools in the Iowa City school district. This became necessary with the population explosion to the north of Iowa City in Coralville and North Liberty. (North Liberty is one of the fastest growing towns in Iowa, as you’ll know if you follow my market reports). Anyway, the natural consequence of this population explosion has been that West High School is running over-capacity and the school district needed to find a long term solution for that. The committee set up to work through this process is expected to decide on the new boundary lines by mid April. (All going well).

Right about now you’re probably wondering where I’m going with this… Bear with me, I’m getting there… I want to share a map with you where mapped the public schools in the Iowa City School District. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while to help folks relocating to the area – It just took me some time to figure out the best way to do it. Now to the important bit: If you are relocating to the area you need to be aware that these redistricting changes are in the pipeline and not assume to know the school your child will attend. Also, Roosevelt Elementary is closing after the 2010-2011 school year and a new school will be built a few blocks away on Camp Cardinal Blvd.

The ICCSD has the most up to date information on how the boundary line redistricting debate is progressing. Definitely worth checking out!