A community meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 3 at Philips Elementary School to discuss the district’s proposed boundaries for the new school being built at Stapleton.

The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the school, located at 6550 E. 21st Ave. All interested parents and community members are invited to attend.

The plan pending before the Board of Education would move a small portion of the neighborhood currently assigned to Philips Elementary School to the new facility, scheduled to open in August 2003.

The plan to install the boundaries would affect about 25 students currently attending Philips, although those students would be eligible to apply to stay at Philips under the district’s open-enrollment Choice process.

The streets that would define the Stapleton attendance area would be Montview Blvd. and city limits on the south, Quebec St. on the west, Havana St. on the east, and the city limits on the north.

The new school will share space with Odyssey Charter School, which is contracted to serve 216 students.

The opening day enrollment for the new DPS portion of the school isn’t clear at this point, according to an analysis by the Department of Planning and Research. Nonetheless, the report expects the school may grow 400-450 students in the next two to three years.