A number of Naperville residents took a first look at a new proposed school boundary map at a forum Thursday and told school board officials that they are unsatisfied with the proposal.

The new map – known as map 6 – calls for 1,204 students in Naperville Unit District 203 schools to switch schools including 819 elementary, 124 junior high and 261 high school students.

The district’s enrollment committee – which reached a consensus on the new map on Jan. 25 – calls for some students in the Seven Bridges and Green Trail East neighborhoods to attend Ranch View Elementary. The change, according to officials, would free up space at Meadow Glens to accept the Highland students east of Naper Boulevard who would have otherwise moved to Maplebrook.

The district—which held input forums at various schools from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. and plans for another forum for Feb. 8 – plans to share the input with the enrollment committee for review on Feb. 15.

But district officials got an earful on Thursday night with many residents accusing them of unfairly targeting neighborhoods and subdivisions on the east side of the district.

“Based on the map, my sixth- and seventh- graders may be at separate high schools, take separate buses in the morning, and my first-grader will be pulled away from a majority of his peers three times in the next seven years,” said Huntington Estates East resident Mariam Qunell to officials. “This will be a disruption for my family.”

Many told the board the district should focus on the problem head on and alleviate overcrowding at Beebe and Mill Street elementary schools. Others said the board should reconsider and possibly scrap a proposed plan for all-day kindergarten at the district, noting it may be unnecessary and would require more space for students.

Superintendent Mark Mitrovich told residents all-day kindergarten is needed because of new common core standards that will be mandated by the federal government in years to come.

“The teachers are telling me they don’t have enough time (to work with the kindergarten children),” said Mitrovich, adding that more than 80 percent of schools in the state have already implemented all-day kindergarten. “We have to remain as one of the top performing districts.”

But parent Shelia Gallagher sees all-day kindergarten in a different light.

“There is no evidence that all-day kindergarten is effective,” said Gallagher, before the meeting. “How much is this going to cost us? We should be focusing on the overcrowding issue not this (kindergarten) right now.”

School officials said they are unsure when a recommendation on the map change will come back to the board, but added that it could be at the next school board meeting on Feb. 21.