The opening of Clovis Unified’s newest high school area and the Terry P. Bradley Educational Center in August of 2025 means changes will be coming to student attendance boundaries for several Clovis Unified schools. Public meetings and opportunities for community input began in late January 2024, a decision on new attendance boundaries will follow in April 2024 and those new attendance boundaries will take effect with the 2025-26 school year.
During the fall of 2023, a steering committee of approximately 50 Clovis Unified employees from across schools and support departments has been working to research city planning decisions, residential development forecasts, census data and enrollment projections to develop maps for consideration. Their work is guided by defined purposes (in no particular order) to:
- Maximize facility space while moving as few students as possible,
- Value neighborhood schools and keep neighborhoods together,
- Reduce operational expenses,
- Create boundaries that will last for 5-10 years whenever possible, and
- Balance enrollment across high school areas.
Initial findings by the committee show that schools in the Clovis East Area and some in the Clovis High Area are currently overcrowded, and likely some of those students will become part of the new Clovis South Area. On the opposite side of the district, data shows that most schools in the Clovis West Area have seats available, while several schools in the nearby Clovis North Area and Buchanan Area are at or above capacity. Clovis Unified’s close to 200-square-mile boundaries extend south to Kings Canyon Boulevard and north to the edge of Millerton Lake and includes most of the city of Clovis, 20% of the city of Fresno and a small portion of unincorporated Fresno County.
More than 100 meetings were held in all school areas, at individual schools and with individual families to discuss the boundary study and gather feedback on two draft proposal maps. The district released a third proposed draft map, Scenario Silver, on Feb. 23, and gathered input on it before releasing a final map March 29.
While the driving force behind the review is the addition of the Terry P. Bradley Educational Center at Highland Avenue and the Clinton Avenue Alignment in Fresno – a campus that will house Clovis South High School and a yet-to-be-named intermediate school – the committee’s boundary review includes looking at all district schools in terms of capacity and recommending adjustments to create more efficient use of schools that are under capacity while easing crowding at those that are over capacity.