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We start with 19 schools. It does not make sense to close newest schools due to maintenance - takes 9 schools out.

Schools that have a capacity of 600 and have at least 500 students in them.

They are going into the schools that they might close: CF, EW, CC, PB, OE, and ZW. None of them are very large. All are older schools. A couple things that stood out -- EW needs serious capital repair. Students come from all over the district and the transportation is paid for. It then makes sense to move them and expand the STEM magnet.

Schools on east are closer to capacity. It is going to be tough to move students. Osseo school does not have continuous areas -- they are broken. Osseo is our smallest school and makes sense to move the populations into areas that are closer and/or can be split easily.

Now they have CF, CC, PB and ZW left.

When Teamworks ran the numbers they just verified what they wanted by applying the assumptions given above.