The Lawrence school district has scheduled three meetings during the first week of December to hash out school boundary changes.

The 11-member Boundary Advisory Committee, which is charged with making final recommendations to the school board, will discuss alternatives at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 1 in the Curriculum Conference Room of the district’s main offices, 110 McDonald Drive. Members of the public may attend but will not be able to publicly address the committee.

Two meetings where the public can provide feedback on boundaries relating to Deerfield and Schwegler elementary schools also have been set. Deerfield community members can meet with school officials at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 4 in the school library, 101 Lawrence Ave.

Schwegler families can meet at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4 in the school library, 2201 Ousdahl Road.

At the Lawrence school board’s Nov. 24 meeting, officials agreed to hold additional meetings to explore alternative boundary changes that would impact enrollment at six elementary and middle schools.

Maps of the alternative boundary changes can be found at the district’s website, USD497.org. However, by the end of the Nov. 24 board meeting, officials were drawing over some of those maps and exploring other options.

Three alternatives gained more traction than others at the Nov. 24 meeting:

• Moving fewer students living immediately north of Sixth Street out of the Deerfield zone into Sunset Hills’. Instead, the district would move students between Kasold Drive, Monterey Way and Peterson Road to Sunset Hills, as well as some students living to the north of Peterson.

• Sending students living between Kasold Drive, Clinton Parkway and Kansas University’s west campus to South Middle School after finishing at Schwegler.

• Sending students living between Folks Road, Sixth Street, Monterey Way and Harvard Road to West Middle School after finishing at Quail Run.

Public meetings for Schwegler and Deerfield were scheduled because the Nov. 24 meeting produced alternative boundary changes to those schools that had not been seen by the public before, according to district spokesperson Julie Boyle.

The BAC first made suggestions to the school board for eight boundary changes in late September to balance enrollment among elementary and middle schools. Through the fall, the district held six public meetings to gather input on each one.

Parents raised concerns — primarily in regard to Deerfield, Schwegler and Quail Run elementaries — that touched on transportation, overcrowding and divided neighborhoods.

District officials said they hope the school board can vote on final recommendations by the BAC at its Dec. 8 meeting, the last of 2014.