APS School Capacity Info
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Anonymous
| Where do you find it? I looked on the website, but I didn't see it - thanks. |
Anonymous
| Thank you! |
Anonymous
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Please keep in mind that the county overrode its demographer's advice and that in the most recent years the APS has been shocked at actual enrollments (which are much higher than the county's projections. https://www.arlnow.com/2017/02/09/peters-take-can-aps-get-a-grip-on-enrollment-projections/
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Anonymous
At least one school is already severely off the projections, so don't look at these as having any reflection on actual reality. Despite being provided numbers to the contrary, APS stuck with their 757 projection for McKinley. Final numbers don't come in until 30 September but it looks to be over 800. |
Anonymous
Agreed. It's sort of a capacity cluster in Arlington. I actually think that is the biggest issue facing the county. It needs to decide what it is going to do. |
Anonymous
| I was asking because I was curious as to how a family would determine whether they could request a transfer, given that the receiving school had to be at less than 95% capacity. The way this looks, there are not terribly many options, if you wanted to transfer... |
Anonymous
| Also, according to this, parents at Henry should be complaining more, compared to those at McKinley or Tuckahoe! Henry will be at 144% for this school year?!?! Am I reading that wrong? |
Anonymous
| It looks like the schools that need the most immediate relief are Henry and Claremont. One is 200+ seats over capacity, the other is 150+ seats over. That's incredible. The County has to fix that first, then tackle the schools with 50-70 seats. |
Anonymous
| I heard Oakridge was chaos yesterday- 8 kindergarten classes. Henry will move to the new school but probably will still be over capacity- the surrounding neighborhoods are filled with toddlers who will in K in 2020 at the new school. |
Anonymous
They have promised to keep the same boundaries for Henry. They can move it , but have promised to keep the same student body. |
Anonymous
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There were rumors that Henry might take on Alcova, but that was not from an official source as far as I could tell. Just wistful thinking.
Still, the problem seems way worse in South Arlington with Henry and Claremont at the elementary level. |
Anonymous
There are 6 kindergarten classes at Oakridge. (And two pre-K.) It may be in chaos frequently, but not for that reason. 
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Anonymous
Not PP, but were the 6 K classes in line with projections? Or were you expecting more? |
Anonymous
Is there any room to physically expand the Oakridge campus? Or is it geographically constrained? |