Shouldn’t Weaver Lake be turned back into a traditional school in this attendance boundary change process?
There are two schools in the district without attendance boundaries – Weaver Lake: A Science, Math and Technology School and Birch Grove School for the Arts. Both of these are considered to be Northwest Suburban Integration School District (NWSISD) magnet schools and are a part of our Achievement and Integration requirements under Minnesota Statute 124D.861.
The idea of changing Weaver Lake to a neighborhood school was studied at length by the school board in 2019. Board members agreed to keep it as a magnet school within NWSISD at that time. Also of note, changing Weaver Lake to a neighborhood school would backtrack the success that the school has seen in its current location.