Working options, not final. The proposed zones shown here are drafts for public comment and may be refined before the School Board votes on the final zones.

Proposed Elementary Attendance Zones For 2027-28

Stewartsville Elementary closes at the end of this school year. Its families need new elementary zones, and the zones around them would shift so every school stays within its space. This public tool shows the working options the District is considering: the proposed zones under each, what they would mean for your home, and a way to tell the District what you think. Nothing here is final.

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What Is Being Decided

Stewartsville Closes

On 8 October 2026 the School Board decided to close Stewartsville Elementary for 2027-28. No other school closes.

4 Working Options To Compare

The study team drew three working options of proposed elementary zones, plus a second version of Option 3 that keeps Thomas Jefferson Elementary less full. Each comes with proposed middle and high school zones. They are drafts for comment and will change.

  • Working Option 1 : Main Roads
  • Working Option 2 : Ridges And Rivers
  • Working Option 3 : Balanced
  • Working Option 3T : Balanced, Thomas Jefferson Held Lower

Your Comments Count

The District is collecting feedback on the working options. The zones may be refined before the School Board votes on the final zones, and your comments will help inform them.

How To Use This Tool

1 Find My Zone

See which elementary, middle and high school your home is zoned to today and under the proposed zones of each working option.

  1. Type your street address and press Find, or click your home on the map.
  2. Read the table: one row per working option, with your proposed elementary school and whether it changes, and your proposed middle and high school.
  3. On the map, drag the divider: a working option's proposed zones are on the left, today's zones on the right. Pick the option under the address box.

2 Elementary

Look at one working option's proposed elementary zones at a time against today's zones.

  1. Pick a working option. The map shows its proposed zones on the left of a divider and today's zones on the right; drag the divider to compare.
  2. Red outlines with numbers mark the areas that change school. The table under the map lists each area, the roads in it, and how many children live there.
  3. The school table shows how full each school would be under the proposed zones.

3 Middle And High

See the proposed middle and high school zones that go with each working option.

  1. Pick a working option and a version: aligned (each proposed elementary zone feeds one middle school) or small splits kept (fewer students move).
  2. Drag the divider: proposed middle and high zones on the left, today's on the right; red outlines mark areas whose middle and high school would change.
  3. The numbers show how many students live in areas that change and how full each school would be.

4 Compare

All the working options and today side by side: how many students change school, how full the fullest and emptiest schools are, how much of each boundary follows roads, streams or ridges, and bus rides.

5 Comment

Tell the District what you think about a working option, a school, or the process. Your name is required; email is optional. Comments go to the District and the study team and are not shown to other visitors.

Models Built With The Following Assumptions (Not Final, Pending School Board Decisions)

Transfer Students

Students who attend a school other than their zoned school today stay at that school until they finish grade 5. New transfers are limited for the first two to three years.

Children Finishing Grade 4

Rising 5th graders whose home would be rezoned finish grade 5 at their current school in 2027-28. Stewartsville's 4th graders move, because the school closes.

Middle And High School

The model assumes that current middle schoolers may finish middle school in their current school, and that current high schoolers may finish high school in their current school. The model assumes that all new entrants to middle and high school attend the newly zoned schools.

How The Working Options Were Drawn

  • Lines follow major roads, rivers and ridges wherever they can, and run along property lines.
  • Every home within two miles by road, or a mile in a straight line, of its nearest school is zoned to that school.
  • Every school stays below 100% in each of the first three years while transfers phase out, and the working options aim for 65% to 85% in the long run.
  • Every proposed zone is one piece, and lines move only where they buy space, shorter rides or a cleaner boundary.

Reading The Numbers

  • How full a school is (utilization): students as a percent of the building's space, not counting preschool rooms. The working options aim for 65% to 85%.
  • 2027-28 to 2029-30 are the first years, while transfer students and rising 5th graders stay where they are; 2036 is the long-run forecast, including planned housing.
  • Areas that change are numbered the same way on the maps and in the tables.
  • <5 means fewer than five children; small numbers are not shown, to protect privacy.
  • Bus rides are simulated typical rides, calibrated to the District's actual rides.
Students: 3,687 K-5 students in 2026-27 (official 30 September count). Prepared by Demographic Analytics Advisors for Bedford County Public Schools, 2026-11-02.
Your home on the map
Proposed elementary changes would take effect in fall 2027. Today's transfer students, and rising 5th graders whose home would be rezoned, stay where they are (see Welcome). Middle and high: everyone now enrolled stays; new 6th and 9th graders would follow the proposed line. 'Aligned' and 'small splits kept' are the two proposed middle and high versions the District is weighing.
How full each school would be under the proposed zones
Percent of each building's functional capacity. Today: actual 2026-27 enrollment. 2027-28 to 2029-30: today's transfer students, and rising 5th graders whose home would be rezoned, stay where they are. 2036: long-run forecast with planned housing. Goodview is counted at 581 seats, its space once the preschool classrooms and a program move there from Stewartsville. Shaded red above 85%, amber below 65%.
Areas that would change school
Numbered as on the map. K-5: children living there in 2026-27. Counts under 5 are shown as <5. Ride: simulated typical bus ride for the area's riders, today and under the proposed zones, in minutes.
How full each middle and high school would be under the proposed zones
Long run, once everyone now enrolled has finished: today's enrollment plus the students each school gains, minus those it loses.
The working options side by side
Today: actual 2026-27 enrollment with every transfer in place. Working options, 2026-27: every child at the school of their proposed zone. Rides: simulated K-5 bus rides.
Proposed middle and high zones
Send a comment
Tell the District what you think of a working option, a school, or the process. First and last name are required. Email is optional; if you leave one, the District can follow up.
How comments are used

The working options on this site are the drafts the study team gave the District in October 2026; the zones they show are proposed, not decided. The District is collecting feedback now; the zones may be refined before the School Board votes on the final zones.

Pick the working option your comment is about so it reaches the right place, or leave it as General. If it concerns one school, pick the school too.

Every comment is saved with the time it was sent and passed to the District. Nothing you write is shown to other visitors.
Demographic Analytics Advisors • Bedford County Public Schools • Round 2