A check with Asst.Supt. Scroggs provides the following information:

2003-2004 census
Schools	Membership	Walk Zone	Bus	Car	Walk/Bike
SCROGGS	657		353		236	152	269
MCD ES	612		297		163	269	123
EPHESUS	445		180		139	240	57

So clearly, when a school is constructed adjoining a neighborhood, with sidewalks leading to it, and with a walkzone which is safe for children, anywhere from 1/4 up to 2/3 of the children who could walk, WILL walk. This could still be the case for Twin Creeks if the eastern location is found to be feasible for an ES. I hope the BOCC will encourage and fund consideration of this approach, this time including the school board in the planning.

The other ES/MS in the CHCCS have so few children in a walkzone that they are irrelevant, except as examples of what happens when the relationships between family location and civic facilities are ignored.

Best regards, Matthew Barton