The Lawrence school district is going back to the drawing board on several proposed changes to school attendance boundaries.

At the school board meeting Monday, the Boundary Advisory Committee, tasked with recommending new boundaries to the board, agreed to evaluate several alternative options after parents raised various concerns.

The boundaries are at issue because the board wants to balance school enrollment and avoid crowding.

In September, the committee recommended eight specific changes to zones that determine which elementary and middle schools students attend based on where they live. Monday, school officials entertained around a half-dozen alternatives that involve elementary schools such as Deerfield, Sunset Hill, Schwegler and Quail Run, as well as West and South middle schools.

School board member Rick Ingram, who also has a seat on the seven-member boundary committee, said that group would consider all alternatives, but three gained the most traction at Monday’s meeting:

• Moving fewer students living immediately north of Sixth Street into the Sunset Hills zone. Instead, the district would move all 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.

• Sending students living between Folks Road, Sixth Street, Monterey Way and Harvard Road to West Middle School.

Ingram said the committee will convene Dec. 3 to consider the alternatives. He said there is a “real desire” for the school board to vote on new boundaries at its Dec. 8 meeting, the last of 2014, but a vote might have to wait until the new year.

Ingram said the boundary committee will try to schedule another gathering in which members of the public can again offer input before Dec. 8. The district already hosted six public meetings in the fall and heard from eight members of the public Monday night.

One of those speakers was Gavin Young, who has voiced concerns about transportation issues and overcrowding in regard to a proposal to have some Quail Run students go on to West after elementary school.

“I think, in talking to the other (parents) who were here, we were very pleased with the meeting,” he said after the board adjourned.

District officials were caught off guard when the 2013-14 school year began and they saw that kindergarten enrollment at Deerfield had grown by 100 students. Officials had been expecting an increase of only 60 students.