GALVESTON, Texas — Galveston public school district trustees, who will decide later this month which schools to close, are asking parents and residents to share their opinions Wednesday about reconfiguring the district.

“This is a community decision,” said Andy Mytelka, school board president.

Trustees, facing mounting recovery costs, a dwindling student population and a growing budget shortfall, are considering closing schools in 2009-10.

Four schools remain closed almost four months after Hurricane Ike swamped the island and most of the district’s buildings.

Before Ike, the district was facing a budget shortfall of $6 million and almost every school was under capacity.

The hurricane caused $65 million in damage to district buildings and displaced 25 percent of the student population.

The district could lose more students next year, Superintendent Lynne Cleveland has said.

Administrators have presented three reconfiguration options.

All three included closing hurricane-damaged Central Middle School and Burnet and Scott elementary schools; opening a charter school, associated with the nationally recognized Knowledge is Power Program, at Rosenberg Elementary School; and enrolling at least 150 more students at the magnet program at Austin Middle School.

Details of the options include:

•Keeping all elementary students at Morgan, Oppe, Parker and Rosenberg schools and all non-magnet school students in grades five through eight at Weis Middle School.

•Enrolling all students in grades prekindergarten through five at Morgan, Oppe, Parker and Rosenberg elementary schools and enrolling all non-magnet school students in grades six through eight at Weis Middle School. Developing a specialized curriculum for Weis.

•Eliminating attendance zones, allowing parents to choose either Morgan, Oppe, Parker or Rosenberg elementary in which to enroll their children and giving each school a specialized theme. Enrolling all non-magnet school students in grades five through eight at Weis Middle School, which would have its own specialized curriculum.

The public meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Ball High School, 4115 Ave. O.

Trustees will meet in a workshop a week after the public input meeting to discuss the options before making a decision in late January.

Because of declining enrollment in the past decade, the district has shuttered two elementary schools within three years.