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MEMORANDUM
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Community Development 33 E. Broadway Avenue, Meridian, ID 83642
Phone 208-884-5533 Fax 208-888-6854 www.meridiancity.org
October 1, 2024
TO: Bill Parsons, Current Planning Supervisor
FROM: Hether Hill, Long Range Associate Coordination Planner
RE: H-2023-0070, Rolling Hill
CUMULATIVE IMPACTS ON SCHOOLS
The proposed residential development application is located at 1560 S Rolling Hill Drive. This
section of the memo looks at cumulative impacts over a broad area and provides entitlement
data in areas affected by the subject application. The following information is intended as a
reference, rather than a decisive tool, and serves to forecast the number of school-aged
children, enrolled in both public and private schools, using city-wide census data. Within the
last five years, there have been 1,790 entitled units (777 single-family and 1,013 multi-family)
approved within a 1-mile radius of the project location resulting in approximately 1,045 school-
aged children.
480
259 306
1,045
414
231 275
919
66 28 31
126
-
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
Elementary Middle High Total
Forecasted Students Based on Entitlements
Total Students Public Private
Exhibit A
West Ada School District
STUDENT GENERATION RATES
West Ada School District (WASD) uses a Student Generation Rate (SGR) to determine what
impact future development will have on enrollments. Based on the submitted application
materials, the proposed project will contain 0 single family units and 154 multi-family units
resulting in approximately 19 school-aged children. The proposed project is within the
following school district boundaries, currently, and approval of the project may affect
enrollments at the following schools:
23-24’ Enrollment Architectural Capacity
Pepper Ridge Elementary School 533 675
Lewis & Clerk Middle School 859 1000
Centennial High School 1780 1900
*This information is intended as a reference, rather than a decisive tool.
HISTORICAL ENROLLMENTS
The following table includes historical student enrollment data for schools in close proximity to
the proposed development that may be affected by future school boundary changes:
Development Area Zone
Attendance
2023 - 2024 2022 - 2023 2021 - 2022 2020 - 2021
Pepper Ridge Elementary School 533 535 537 361
Lewis & Clark Middle School 859 881 887 851
Centennial High School 1780 1941 1959 1881
Mountain View High School 2537 2469 2373 2261
Notes:
• Attendance data per Idaho Department of Education 1. WASD also provides historical enrollment
data: https://www.westada.org/page/district-data
• Projects can be built in phases and full impacts not immediate.
• Architectural Capacity – the capacity established at the time a school is designed based on the
number of general education classrooms in the building.2
1 https://www.sde.idaho.gov/finance/
2 https://www.westada.org/page/facility-plan/
Single Family Multi Family Single Family Multi Family
Pepper Ridge Elementary School 0.22 0.12 0 154 19.00 675
Development Area Zone
Student Generation Rates (SGR)Total Units Estimated
Students
Architectural
Capacity
Exhibit B