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2003 – present
The reorganization: In the 2003–04 school year, under Superintendent Joan Raymond, the corporation rebuilt its ladder and called the plan Plan Z. The elementary schools became Primary Centers, teaching kindergarten through fourth grade; the middle layer became Intermediate Centers, teaching fifth through eighth grade; and magnet programs were planted through the system to draw students across the attendance map the consent decree required the corporation to balance. The high schools were touched hardest at one point: LaSalle High School closed as a high school and was converted into one of the intermediate centers, LaSalle Academy, a change the corporation dates to 2004 — a band-history source gives 2002 as the high school's last year, and both dates are carried in the LaSalle entry below.
The ladder since: The center names of the Plan Z era have since settled back toward plain school names in the corporation's current roster — the intermediate centers appear today as middle schools and academies, listed in the middle-school entry below — but the structure Plan Z built, primary centers feeding intermediate centers feeding four high schools, remains the shape of the system. It is the frame inside which the closing waves of the next entry were argued, school by school.
Sources:
- Final Report of the South Bend Reparatory Justice Commission (filed March 2026) — Plan Z's first year, 2003–04, its primary and intermediate centers, its magnets, and the LaSalle conversion.
- Joan Raymond, her own published account — the plan implemented from 2003–04 under her administration, with boundaries redrawn under the consent decree.
- The corporation's current school roster — the present names and grade spans of the former intermediate centers.