School Redistricting Reaches Final Proposal: See Changes In Anne Arundel

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD — Officials recently eliminated all but one of the six school redistricting proposals in Anne Arundel County.

This is the second phase of redistricting for Anne Arundel County Public Schools. It will affect the Annapolis, Arundel, Broadneck, Crofton, Severna Park, South River and Southern clusters. AACPS has already completed redistricting for the northern part of the county.

The Anne Arundel County Board of Education hosted a public briefing on the only remaining proposal on Wednesday night.

Families will have a chance to comment during public hearings Thursday and Monday. Both meetings will be held in the board room at the Parham Building in Annapolis beginning at 6 p.m.

The school board opted for this final redistricting proposal after considering updated but unofficial enrollment figures presented at its Oct. 15 meeting, testimony from about 150 people and written comments in recent weeks.

The board opted to amend Board Recommendation 3, voting Nov. 5 to:

• Remove the rezoning of the Gingerville, Poplar Point, and Wilelenor communities from the South River cluster to the Annapolis cluster for elementary, middle, or high school, leaving those students in their current school assignments.
• Remove the rezoning of the neighborhoods south of Carrollton Road from the Georgetown East Elementary School catchment area into the Hillsmere Elementary School catchment area and remove the rezoning of the area bound by Jackson Street out of the Eastport Elementary School catchment area into the Georgetown East Elementary School catchment area, leaving those students in their current school assignments.
• Revise the legacy provision to allow only those students entering 12th grade in the 2026-27 school year the option to remain at the high school to which they are currently assigned. Students entering 11th grade in the 2026-27 school year would not have this option. Students enrolled in magnet programs would continue to be enrolled in their current school assigned program.
• Remove the rezoning of 28 students from Waugh Chapel Elementary School to Odenton Elementary School, leaving those students in their current school assignments.
• Allow four South River Colony communities to remain assigned to Central Elementary School.
• Retain the split articulation of Nantucket Elementary School such that middle and high school students living in a portion of the Nantucket Elementary School attendance area from Crofton Middle School and Crofton High School would move to Arundel Middle School and Arundel High School.

As revised, BR-3 would still:

• Maintain the Chalk Point and Shady Oaks communities at Deale Elementary School.
• Rezone the addresses of 442, 444, and 448 North Patuxent Road to Odenton Elementary School.
• Modify the boundaries for Four Seasons, Piney Orchard, Odenton, and Seven Oaks elementary schools such that the northern portion of Piney Orchard Elementary School would stay at Piney Orchard Elementary School, a portion of Four Seasons Elementary school will be rezoned to Piney Orchard, and the western portion of Odenton Elementary School would move to Seven Oaks Elementary School.

More information on the opportunities for public comment is available in this press release. A full recap of the redistricting process is posted at aacps.org/page/redistricting-process-phase-2.

Related: Over 1K Students Could Change Schools Amid Redistricting