School Board Director District Boundaries
**Please note this process will NOT affect where a student attends school. This process affects School Board Director Districts ONLY, not attendance areas.**
Why Redistricting?
- Every ten years school districts must review their board of director districts to ensure equitable geographic representation. RCW 29A.76.010
- Soap Lake School District has five School Board Directors, three of which represent geographic regions, or "districts" and two that serve at-large, or from any of the regions.
- This process will ensure the population is balanced between the three geographic regions or districts.
Redistricting Criteria
- Director districts or must be population balanced
- Director districts must be contiguous
- Director redistricting must be drawn in compliance with all local, state, and federal laws including the Federal Voting Rights Act
- Director redistricting must not be done to favor or disfavor a protected class or political party
- Director districts should be as compact as possible
- Director districts should preserve communities of mutual interest
- Director districts should preserve the use of existing natural boundaries
- Director districts or should not split census blocks
Redistricting Timeline
- September 2021: 2020 US Census Data released
- February - March: FLO Analytics analyzed data and creates SLSD Springboard Maps
- March 22, 2022: Process Kick-Off Meeting/Workshop (internal)
- April 19, 2022: Publish Draft Maps
- April 25, 2022: Board meeting with public comment on Draft Maps
- May 17, 2022: Publish Final Map
- May 23, 2022: School Board adopts final map