In an effort to balance student enrollment at area high schools, the district has modified the boundary lines for the 2015-16 school year.

“I’m excited about the changes,” Principal Derrell Douglas said. “I would love to have more students than we have now.”

Currently, Timberview has the lowest enrollment of the five comprehensive high schools in MISD.

“Mansfield ISD uses a demographer who is responsible for projecting each school’s population,” Douglas said. “The demographer has determined that in a few years Lake Ridge will be overpopulated, so the district decided that the boundary lines needed to be changed.”

High school students who are affected by the boundary changes will be allowed to attend the same school as long as they can provide their own transportation.

“Hopefully, I (will) have my driver’s license by then so I won’t have to move schools,” sophomore Daria Ervin said.

She said she is worried about the changes.

“I think it’s annoying because all of my friends are (here),” Ervin said. “If they change it up, I might not be able to see them again.”

Most students want to remain at the same school, she said.

“Many of us (students) like to start at a high school and graduate from that same school,” Ervin said.

Sophomore Isaiah Eaton said he is worried about the increase in students.

“I’m a little upset about the change,” he said. “It’s not that the class size would increase, but that the classes that are already full will increase more.”

Because of the change, Timberview will remain classified as 5A instead of being moved to 4A.

“With our current school population, we are classified as a smaller 5A school,” Douglas said.

The change in boundary lines, which primarily affects the Cabaniss Elementary School zone, will bring back familiar faces, Douglas said.

He said, “The neighborhood that we are getting belonged to Timberview before Lake Ridge opened, so we are going to be getting a lot of kids from our former neighborhood back.”