Brookwood Hills in Buckhead is mobilizing against the APS redistricting option that would remove the neighborhood from the E. Rivers Elementary district.

The community also opposes the second elementary option, which would keep Brookwood Hills in the E. Rivers district, but remove other neighborhoods that have been part of the school community.

Option A of the new demographers’ options released last week would place Brookwood Hills in the district of a proposed new elementary school.

The APS’ Option B would keep the neighborhood in the E. Rivers district but, “the school loses many of its PTA-strong neighborhoods and gains the multifamily, heavily Spanish-speaking, section 8 housing area behind Home Depot along Lindberg/Piedmont east to I-85,” according to an email from neighborhood resident Elizabeth Wickland asking the  community to email school officials to oppose the redistricting options. Option B would shift neighborhoods like Loring Heights to another possible new elementary, closer to Midtown.

Wickland said that Option A removes Brookwood Hills from other neighborhoods in the Peachtree Road corridor such as Peachtree Hills, Ardmore Park, Collier Hills and Collier Hills North, which would remain in E. Rivers.

“They’re singling us out in Option A, sending our kids to a school east of us with kids not in our community,” she said The Brookwood Hills community of single-family homes would be placed with multi-family apartment units of the Lindbergh Road area.

Brookwood Hills residents are also urged to turn out at the APS public meeting on the new options at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at North Atlanta High, and at the next school board meeting Monday.

The neighborhood also opposes both of APS’ middle school options, which the email says would rezone Brookwood Hills away from Sutton Middle School into a zone “that extends to the south side of downtown, to the Georgia Dome and the Grady curve” for construction of a new middle school.

Other Brookwood Hills residents say they have contributed significant time and money over the years on improving E. Rivers.