FCPS School Rezoning: What Changes for Fall 2027

These answer two different questions, and mixing them up is the easiest mistake to make here. One shows you today. The other shows you fall 2027.

Current zones, in effect right now

FCPS uses a tool called SchoolSite Locator. Type in a street address and it returns the elementary, middle, and high school that address is assigned to today. This is the number to trust for the 2026-27 school year, and it is the one to check before you sign a lease or make an offer on a house. It is linked from the FCPS school rezoning page.

The approved boundary changes, effective fall 2027

This is a separate, map-based tool. FCPS tells families to look for the search icon in the top left corner and type in your student's home address and see how the proposed school boundaries affect your family. Open the interactive map and search your address to see whether it sits inside the new attendance area.

One wording note so the map does not confuse you: FCPS still describes these boundaries as proposed, because that page was written before the June 2026 vote and has not been rewritten since. The boundaries are approved. The map is current; only the label around it is behind.

This page deliberately does not name which streets or neighborhoods move. That is what the map is for, and a written summary of it would go stale or be wrong at the edges. We describe the process. The map decides your address.

Four elementary schools, plus the new one:

• Meadowthorpe Elementary
• Sandersville Elementary
• Coventry Oak Elementary
• Booker T. Washington Elementary
• Helen Caise Wade Elementary, the new school at 1411 Greendale Road, opening for the 2027-28 year

The list appears twice in FCPS materials, with one small difference. The May 28, 2026 committee recap says:

Affected schools: Meadowthorpe, Sandersville, Coventry, and Booker T. Washington

The district's May 21 news post and its March 12 recap both write the third school as Coventry Oak, which matches the FCPS school directory. It is the same list of four schools with one name shortened, not two competing lists.

The same May 28 recap gives the size of the change:

Total impact: 749 students (grades K-5) affected by the reassignment of specific study areas

What this does to each building

The stated goal was to keep every building under 90 percent of its capacity, and comfortably under 100 percent. Without the change, FCPS told the community that enrollment at the affected schools would have climbed to 800 or 900 students each, held together with portable classrooms and overflow adjustments.

Two of the four were reported on specifically at that meeting. Booker T. Washington sits at about 67 percent capacity, and its boundary was deliberately left mostly alone to preserve economic diversity and protect student services, with the spare room going to additional preschool spaces and MSD classrooms. Meadowthorpe is projected at 71 to 72 percent, a building that also takes in 90 to 95 students from outside its boundary.

Helen Caise Wade is built for 750 students, pre-K through grade 5. FCPS wants to open it with 550 to 600 so it has somewhere to grow. About 679 resident K-5 children are expected to live inside the new boundary at opening.

Every date below is from an FCPS source. The one that matters most is June 22, 2026.

1. November 2025

   Phase 1 of Project Right Size, Bright Future begins: reviews of school programs across the district.

2. End of February 2026

   Phase 1 wraps up.

3. February 26, 2026

   Phase 2 kicks off. This is the redistricting phase, tied to the new Greendale Road elementary school.

4. March 12, 2026

   The committee is walked through the method: 853 neighborhood-based Study Areas, growth projections through 2031, and the five goals the boundary lines have to satisfy.

5. March 26, 2026

   The board votes to name the new school Helen Caise Wade Elementary. Wade became the first Black student to integrate FCPS when she enrolled in a summer class at Lafayette High in 1955.

6. April 2, April 23, and April 30, 2026

   Scenario development, refinement against community feedback, and final scenario review.

7. May 14 and May 21, 2026

   The Right Size committee finishes its draft boundary proposal.

8. May 28, 2026

   Community feedback meeting at the STEAM Academy on Georgetown Road, 5:30 p.m. The committee presents the proposed boundaries, the 749-student impact figure, and the capacity projections through 2031-32, then takes questions.

9. June 8, 2026

   District officials present the recommended rezoning plan to the school board at its planning session, ahead of a vote later that month.

10. June 22, 2026

    The board approves the rezoning plan, 5-0, as item I.19 on the consent agenda. This is the decision.

11. July 6, 2026

    The board adopts the minutes of the June 22 meeting, making the record of that vote official.

12. June 2027

    Construction of Helen Caise Wade Elementary is scheduled to be complete.

13. August 2027

    The school opens for the 2027-28 year and the new boundaries take effect. Nothing changes before this date.

Who was in the room

FCPS calls the structure a shared accountability model, and it has three parts: district leadership from the Operations, Pupil Personnel, and Budget departments; a community committee of business and civic representatives, faith leaders, and education advocates; and representatives from the impacted schools, meaning their staff and their students' families.

Above all three, one line on the FCPS page settles who actually decides:

Note: The Fayette County Board of Education makes the final decisions.

How the lines were drawn

The district does not draw boundaries street by street. It works in blocks. From the March 12, 2026 recap:

The district is divided into 853 neighborhood-based Study Areas. Each unit contains about 50 to 100 K-12 students.

Planners move whole study areas rather than splitting neighborhoods, run each combination through scenario modeling software, and see the enrollment effect immediately. Five goals constrained the result: keep capacity in reserve for growth, reflect the district's overall diversity, relieve overcrowding at the four schools without needing portables, minimize disruption to feeder patterns and bus times, and use permanent landmarks so the lines hold for years.

The vote itself

The rezoning plan was item I.19 on the June 22, 2026 consent agenda. A consent agenda is how a board approves a batch of items in a single motion instead of debating each one, so there was no separate rezoning debate that night. The official minutes, which the board adopted at its July 6 meeting, record it:

A motion to approve the items on the consent agenda including any items added by addendum passed with a motion by Penny Christian and a second by Amy Green.

All five members voted yes: Amanda Ferguson, Amy Green, Tyler Murphy, Penny Christian, and Monica Mundy. The district's own recap of that meeting listed the approval in plain language, as Rezoning plan to accommodate the August 2027 opening of Helen Caise Wade Elementary on Greendale Road.

On the plan's name

You will see the name Plan 2B attached to this. Said carefully: the committee's recommendation was called Plan 2B in the committee's own materials, the board approved an item titled simply the rezoning plan for Helen Caise Wade Elementary, and the interactive map presents the scenario from those materials. No FCPS source states the name of the plan the board adopted, so this page does not claim one.

If you have searched for this and come away unsure, the search results are the reason, not you.

FCPS's school rezoning page is the page that ranks for the obvious searches, and it documents the previous cycle: the working group, the scenarios, and the community forum that preceded Mary E. Britton Middle School. Its timeline runs from November 2023 to August 2024. The current elementary rezoning appears on it only as a link, under the heading Related Activity in 2025-26.

The current cycle lives on the Project Right Size, Bright Future page and in individual board and committee recap posts. As of the verification date at the bottom of this page, the Right Size page still described the June 8 presentation as pending action at the June 22 regular meeting, and the interactive map still called the boundaries proposed. Both were written before the vote.

None of that is hidden or wrong, and district communications teams have a lot to keep current. It just means the pieces a parent needs are spread across a handful of posts, with the most important one, the vote, recorded in a consent agenda item and a set of minutes. That is the gap this page fills.

FCPS has run this exact process recently, for Mary E. Britton Middle School on Polo Club Boulevard, and the shape of it is a fair guide to what happens next.

That cycle started with internal data review in November 2023. Through spring 2024 a rezoning team worked with a demographics consultant to build numbered scenarios, six of them in the end, publishing draft maps and minutes as it went. A community forum was held at Frederick Douglass High School on June 13, 2024. The proposal went to the school board on August 8, 2024. The rezoning page records the outcome in one line:

Aug. 26, 2024: School board approval of Scenario 6

Britton opened in August 2025, a year after the vote. Students who had been zoned to Crawford or Edythe J. Hayes Middle moved to it.

Two things carry over. First, the gap between the vote and the doors opening is real, and families had roughly a year to plan. This time the gap is longer: approved June 2026, opening August 2027. Second, FCPS says it communicates directly with the families affected by a boundary change, which it did during the Britton cycle. If your address moved, expect to hear from the district, and do not wait on that before checking the map yourself.