The boundaries for the two middle schools in Barrington Area Unit School District 220 will not change if the school board decides to adopt later start times next school year, according to Superintendent Brian Harris.
In June, Harris said 15 minutes of travel time on each bus route would be saved if middle-school boundaries were decided by which side of the Metra railway the students lived on.
But after spending the last two weeks with new bus routing software, the administration concluded that changing the boundaries would only eliminate four school buses, a savings of nearly $55,000. Changing the boundaries also did not reduce the amount of time students spent on buses enough to improve the three options the board is considering.
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A copy of the latest school start time options presented to the Board of Education at last night’s meeting can be viewed here.
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