And the ensuing draft of new regions has additional shuffles ahead of the finalization expected to come on Dec. 19 which sets classification and region alignments for the 2025-27 school years.

The biggest changes in the latest draft come in the 5A and 4A classifications. In the first draft released on Dec. 4, each classification had five regions, with five of those 10 total regions containing just five schools.

After feedback from schools, 5A and 4A now have four regions apiece in the proposed “second consideration” that followed the Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday.

That includes the proposed 5A regions for Weber and Davis counties.

A Region 5 with Bonneville, Box Elder, Fremont, Roy and West Field now potentially includes Clearfield and Northridge. The three schools from south Davis County (Bountiful, Viewmont, Woods Cross) are now tentatively aligned with Salt Lake-area schools Alta, Brighton, Olympus and Skyline in Region 6.

Details of that potential alignment: the southernmost Davis County school, Woods Cross, is 48 miles away from Box Elder. The northernmost school of those in southern Davis County, Viewmont, is 28 miles from the southernmost school (Alta) in the proposed Region 6.

The 3A classification is also consolidated in the latest proposal, shrinking from three regions to two. The region with Ben Lomond, Layton Christian, Morgan and Ogden has taken on Summit Academy (Bluffdale) and Union (Roosevelt), an expansive region that also includes Grantsville, Logan and Providence Hall (Herriman).

Logan’s drop to 3A has complicated the Bear River-plus-Cache County region in Class 4A, which has, in the new proposal, grown to eight by including Tooele County schools Deseret Peak, Stansbury and Tooele.

Class 6A’s Region 1, an alignment unlikely to change, still contains Davis, Farmington, Layton, Syracuse and Weber.

The final step comes Dec. 19 when the Board will consider final requests, which includes any requests from schools to move up a classification in a specific sport.