Henrico County Public Schools

There are procedural guidelines that are used when attendance zones are altered:

Major roads and natural boundaries will be used whenever feasible to define attendance zones.
All reasonable efforts should be made to ensure contiguous geographic zones which minimize division of clearly identifiable community components (e.g. apartment units, residential subdivisions).
All legal and judicial guidelines for the maintenance of a unitary school system will be strictly adhered to.
Efforts will be made to establish walking schools and reasonable walking zones where feasible.
Efforts will be made to ensure an efficient system of school bus transportation.
Provisions should be made to ensure the continuity of a child's K-12 progress. This may be accomplished by offering older students in a school the option to remain at an existing school if parents provide transportation.
Implementation of a rezoning plan over a span of several years would be preferable if it has the effect of minimizing the need for additional line changes for a community in the near or immediate future. (Possibility of phasing in certain changes to avoid additional changes when new school construction is completed.)