All students who live in the Elmer Wolfe Elementary School district will attend New Windsor Middle School starting next fall, even if they now go to Northwest Middle.
The Carroll County Board of Education made the boundary change at its meeting Wednesday night at Francis Scott Key High School.
Most of Elmer Wolfe's students have attended New Windsor Middle, but about 10 percent who live in the Route 75 corridor went on to Northwest Middle in Taneytown.
Now that New Windsor Middle is getting a new, larger building, it will be able to accommodate all of the students from Elmer Wolfe in September, school officials said. Also, the administration has sought to streamline the feeder system so that all of the children in one elementary school move on to the same middle school, and all students in one middle school go to the same high school.
The change will affect about 15 students in fifth grade at Elmer Wolfe and in grades six and seven at Northwest Middle.
Another 15 students live in the same area but already attend New Windsor or other middle schools by special permission.
Parents may send their children to schools outside their district lines under certain conditions, such as for day care, if the school has room.