Board of Education voted to reapportion the territory of the school district.
In their April 12, 2012 meeting Elgin Board of
Education voted to reapportion the territory of the school district into
board districts. This action was required because in the 2010-11 school
year Elgin Schools average daily membership exceeded 1,800 students.
Candidates for seats on the Board of Education shall now file by ward.
Voting on candidates for a seat on the Elgin Board of Education will be
district wide. The Elgin Board of Education was assisted in this
reapportioning by Scott March, GIS Analyst for the Center for Spatial
Analysis in Norman, Oklahoma.
The action taken by the Elgin Board of Education was
to place the District in compliance wit Section 56 of the School Laws of
Oklahoma which states:
Section 56. Independent and Dependent School Districts - Board of Education - Members - Election.
The following provisions and the provisions of Section 13A-101 et seq.
of Title 26 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall govern the election of
members of the board of education for a school district:
B. In all school districts, the members of the board of education shall be elected as follows:
1. a. Between August 1 and December 31 of the year following the
submission by the United States Department of Commerce to the President
of the United States of the official Federal Decennial Census, the board
of education shall reapportion the territory of the school district
into board districts. Beginning with the reapportionment following the
1990 Federal Decennial Census, all boundaries of board districts shall
follow clearly visible, definable and observable physical boundaries
which are based upon criteria established and recognized by the Bureau
of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce for purposes
of defining census blocks for its decennial census and shall follow, as
much as is possible, precinct boundaries. Board districts shall be
compact, contiguous and shall be as equal in population as practical
with not more than a ten percent (10%) variance between the most
populous and least populous board districts.
b. School districts having fewer than one thousand eight hundred (1,800)
students in average daily membership during the preceding school year
may choose not to establish board districts and may nominate and elect
all board members at large.