Parents and staff at Leonardo da Vinci and Hollywood Park schools say they are hoping for some clarity tonight about proposals to consolidate the neighboring campuses.

Leonardo da Vinci and Hollywood Park are two of a handful of schools initially recommended for programmatic changes or consolidations, but they were not mentioned last week when Sacramento City Unified School District trustees decided against closing and consolidating five elementary schools and two high schools.

School consolidations and closures are on the agenda for tonight's 6:30 p.m. school board meeting at the Serna Center, 5735 47th Ave.

"Parents are concerned and waiting is hard," said Sarah Foley, who has two children at Leonardo da Vinci, a high-performing kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school.

At last week's school board meeting, several board members made it clear that the closure and consolidation process was flawed and that trustees would like to see more community discussion.

District trustees could have voted as early as tonight on proposals to close A.M. Winn, Collis P. Huntington and Freeport elementary schools and to consolidate Edward Kemble and Cesar Chavez elementary schools. Instead, the district took them off the table at the Dec. 8 board meeting and shelved a controversial proposal involving West Campus and Sacramento Charter high schools. A community group formed to explore that proposal was disbanded.

Community groups established at other campuses are still moving forward. That leaves the potential for programmatic, grade configuration or consolidation changes at Hollywood Park and Leonardo da Vinci as well as the School of Engineering and Sciences, Caleb Greenwood and Kit Carson.

Larry Boles, parent of two Caleb Greenwood students, is concerned that the school will eliminate seventh and eighth grades at the school.

Boles is on the Caleb Greenwood community group, which met for a fourth time Tuesday evening.

"One of the things that concern me is that now that some schools are off the table, does that put more pressure on the other schools to consolidate or close?" Boles asked.

Parents said they would like to have more answers after the meeting.

"I'm hoping to hear that they take it off the table completely and don't consider it any longer," said parent Paula Balzer, who has two children at Leonardo da Vinci.

District trustee Patrick Kennedy said Tuesday that he wasn't sure whether more proposals will be taken off the table at tonight's meeting, but added that whatever changes are made will come from the design team process.

"In the future, I don't want to make recommendations prior to having community dialog," Kennedy said. "I want the recommendations to come from the community dialog."

Leonardo da Vinci design team member Cindy Kazee, who has two kids at the school, said the group voted unanimously against consolidation Tuesday night.

"It doesn't sound like a consolidation to me," Kazee said. "It sounds like a school closure for Hollywood Park. I think it's a mistake to close the neighborhood school."

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