The as-yet-unnamed second Waukee high school is 2½ years from opening, and before that time, school officials will have to plot out a feeder system. First, though, it has to cope with an entire district’s worth of students pouring in each year.
When Waukee opened its eighth elementary in 2016, it resulted in the seventh adjustment of school boundaries in 22 years, the Des Moines Register reported. Now it’s time for elementary number nine, Radiant, which the district says refers to a coal company that operated in the area in the early 20th century. In five years, Radiant is projected to have more students in kindergarten through fifth grade than the K-12 enrollments of more than half the districts in Iowa.
No word on whether elementary number ten will be named Terrific or Some Pig.
Here’s the map approved last week (PDF), which marks out the prime farmland that will be plowed under for an Apple data center on the district’s western edge.