Students in Hoover City Schools return to the classroom Thursday morning. The new school year will be the first under the Superintendent Dr. Kathy Murphy.Murphy’s first day on the job was June 1. For more than two months, she’s traveled around the school district to meeting everyone from principals to custodians.Murphy explained that her goal is to take Hoover City Schools from “very good to very great.”“We know that water is hot at 211 (degrees), but you never create steam at 211. You’ve got to get to that one extra degree to get to 212,” Murphy said. “We’re ready to be that 212-degree school district, create that steam and move that locomotive and just do things better than we’ve ever done them.”Murphy is enthusiastic about her future with Hoover City Schools, but she recognizes the challenges.According to Murphy, realigning school zones is an unavoidable challenge.Hoover City Schools is working with the Department of Justice to attaining unitary status from the 1971 federal desegregation order. Murphy said part of this will be taking a look at rezoning.“Good, bad or otherwise, we will look at rezoning. We need to do that for unitary status, but also because it’s good businesses for us to revisit where our children are attending school.” Murphy said.Redrawing school zones was a hot topic under the previous superintendent Andy Craig. But Murphy said this isn’t an issue that should cause parents concern.“What we don’t want to do is lift students out of the community and send them to some distance away,” Murphy explained. “We are very supportive of the community school idea. We want students to attend school in their community.”The rezoning plan is something Hoover City Schools will be working with the Department of Justice on in the coming months. Murphy said this will not affect the current school year, but parents can expect to see some changes next year.