RED BANK, S.C. — Some students could be heading to a new school come next school year.
Growing pains in Lexington School District One have led to a proposed rezoning of elementary schools.
"It's gonna be a big loop. I'm literally on the border," said Caleb McGee, a Lexington One elementary school student who could be rezoned into a new school.
Caleb and his parents attended Tuesday's first community information session at Saxe Gotha Elementary School.
Lexington School District One proposes changing the attendance lines to account for a third school, South Lake Elementary.
"Carolina Springs Elementary is about 755 kids Saxe Gotha just over 600. So these proposed attendance lines looking at where students are zoned now would make the student enrollment fairly equal among those three schools in the 400 450 range," Clark Cooper with Lexington School District One said.
The changes will impact most elementary students, but this year's fourth-grade students, like Caleb, will get an option on whether they'd like to change schools.
"I could stay at Saxe Gotha but I also could go to the new school," Caleb said.
Lexington One said this is the grandfather option.
"Rising 5th graders will be able to grandfather which means they'd be able to stay at their current school and also we would extend that option to their siblings," Cooper said.
For the McGees, this comes down to what's best for Caleb.
"I would go wherever is best for you and your family," Caleb's father, Joshua McGee, said.
South Lake Elementary School is set to open its doors in August 2024.
The district will hold another community meeting at Carolina Springs Elementary on Monday, Dec. 4, before a second reading with the entire school board.