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Article posted: 8/22/2012 4:23 PM

Dist. 203 encouraged by early returns on boundary changes

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Second-grade teacher Jane Reich has about 12 fewer students in her Mill Street School classroom this fall thanks to boundary changes implemented by Naperville Unit District 203.

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The average fifth-grade classroom at Naperville's Mill Street Elementary School now has 22 students, Principal Mary Baum said.

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There are 10 fewer students this year in this fourth-grade class at Mill Street Elementary School in Naperville.

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Attendance figures always fluctuate early in the school year, but Naperville Unit District 203 officials and parents say they've seen enough to call the first phase of this year's controversial boundary changes a success. District officials say 17,421 students were enrolled for the first week of classes, which is right on target with their projections. But they're even happier because their projections appear on the money for both Mill Street and Beebe elementary schools, which were seriously overcrowded before the boundary changes were implemented

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