LAKE STEVENS — The new school is called Stevens Creek Elementary.

The Lake Stevens School Board chose the name Nov. 9 after the district received more than 320 suggestions from people in the community. Others included Eagle View, Eagle Ridge or Alpine Ridge Elementary School.

Workers are setting the foundation for the elementary and a new preschool on 38 acres near Lake Drive and Soper Hill Road.

Water from the campus flows downhill to Stevens Creek, which connects to Lake Stevens. The name is meant to capture the natural elements around the school.

Though the name has been decided, decisions about which students will go to the new elementary still are being made. A 34-person committee is reviewing current school boundaries and deciding how to divvy up students once there are seven elementaries instead of six.

The preschool is expected to open in the fall. Stevens Creek Elementary should open in January 2018, halfway through the school year.

Students who are expected to attend the new school would learn in classrooms at other schools for the first half of the 2017-18 school year. A mid-year transition would move them into Stevens Creek. This is similar to the approach the district used to move students into Sunnycrest Elementary after it was modernized. Students were in portables at two other campuses for a year.

The boundary committee includes parents, others living in the district, school staff and administrators. The group hopes to recommend updated elementary boundaries to the school board sometime in January. First, the committee has at least two more meetings, on Nov. 28 and Dec. 5. Those meetings are not public comment opportunities but people may attend the school board meeting in January to address the boundary proposals.

Along with assigning students to the new elementary, the changes would move some students among other elementaries in the district. The goal is to reduce crowding in all of the schools, most of which have been over capacity for years. The new elementary is designed for 550 students, with additional room in the common areas.

The committee also is talking about whether to redraw the boundaries for Lake Stevens’ two middle schools. All students in the district funnel into Cavelero Mid High and Lake Stevens High School, but the elementaries are divided into two middle schools first.

“We have an even number of elementary schools feeding into an even number of middle schools, and the seventh elementary will change that,” district spokeswoman Jayme Taylor said. “The committee has not yet determined if they will change boundaries for the middle schools.”

Every school is represented on the committee, she said.

A few other decisions remain to be made about the elementary and preschool. Principal Matt Pewitt is working with a planning team to come up with a mascot and colors for the elementary. A name for the preschool should be decided in the same manner as the elementary school, by taking suggestions and working with a committee, Taylor said. A timeline for that has not been set.

The preschool and elementary are part of a $116 million bond passed by voters in February. An overhaul of the high school also is planned.

Kari Bray: 425-339-3439; kbray@heraldnet.com.