APS 2021-2022 boundary-adjustments

[Anonymous]

They constantly kick the can and listen too much to the small group of current and heavily invested vocal families. They need to limit the role the PTAs play.

[Anonymous]

What are the current MS enrollments? Is Hamm, which was low to begin with, even lower? Why is it not involved in the boundary shift? Did more kids materialize there? Is that why only TJ and Gunston are involved? Also, we can see from AEM that people don’t actually want to walk their kids to school, or hub stops. It’s almost like “walkable” is code for something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Article also said moving some kids from Wakefield to W-L. All I hear from parents of kids at W-L is how packed it is there already. Is the former admin building they are converting to classrooms open yet?

W-L is just going to be so huge.

Nope they will drive away a bunch of families to FFX as planned

[Anonymous]

Love the combine Drew and Abingdon idea. Make it an upper and lower school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Article also said moving some kids from Wakefield to W-L. All I hear from parents of kids at W-L is how packed it is there already. Is the former admin building they are converting to classrooms open yet?

W-L is just going to be so huge.

Nope they will drive away a bunch of families to FFX as planned

How big will WL get? Are they moving Wakefield and Yorktown PU into WL? I thought it’s size was from its own boundary?

[Anonymous]

LOL @Arlington parents. Whining about boundary changes for decades (I've lived here since the 1980s). Don't worry, your snowflakes will be ok!

[Anonymous]

They aren't moving Fairlington. Stengle said in her presentation it would be the units that were proposed in the "Getting Started" map from back in 2018. That is the map that moved units to Drew that were not "contiguous" to other Drew units. Basically the units along S. George Mason and Four Mile run.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the current MS enrollments? Is Hamm, which was low to begin with, even lower? Why is it not involved in the boundary shift? Did more kids materialize there? Is that why only TJ and Gunston are involved? Also, we can see from AEM that people don’t actually want to walk their kids to school, or hub stops. It’s almost like “walkable” is code for something else.

I am also curious about Hamm. I was hoping they might rebalance Hamm and Swanson since they messed that up when setting the original Hamm boundaries. Is APS likely to continue to allow Swanson kids to lottery in for empty seats at Hamm if they don't adjust boundaries now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the current MS enrollments? Is Hamm, which was low to begin with, even lower? Why is it not involved in the boundary shift? Did more kids materialize there? Is that why only TJ and Gunston are involved? Also, we can see from AEM that people don’t actually want to walk their kids to school, or hub stops. It’s almost like “walkable” is code for something else.

Hamm - 854 (+16.3% since June 2020)
Shriver - 7
Gunston - 1,114 (-0.7% since June 2020)
HB - 243
Jefferson - 852 (-21.1% since June 2020)
Kenmore - 932 (-6.5% since June 2020)
Swanson - 891 (-8.1% since June 2020)
Williamsburg - 791 (-17.9% since June 2020)
Virtual - 204

Overall MS enrollment is -3.4% vs. June 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Article also said moving some kids from Wakefield to W-L. All I hear from parents of kids at W-L is how packed it is there already. Is the former admin building they are converting to classrooms open yet?

W-L is just going to be so huge.

Nope they will drive away a bunch of families to FFX as planned

How big will WL get? Are they moving Wakefield and Yorktown PU into WL? I thought it’s size was from its own boundary?

Don’t think Yorktown is involved. And no, the addition they built is too big just for the current W-L boundary, and Wakefield is too crowded. So the plan is to move additional Wakefield PUs to W-L.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the current MS enrollments? Is Hamm, which was low to begin with, even lower? Why is it not involved in the boundary shift? Did more kids materialize there? Is that why only TJ and Gunston are involved? Also, we can see from AEM that people don’t actually want to walk their kids to school, or hub stops. It’s almost like “walkable” is code for something else.

Hamm - 854 (+16.3% since June 2020)
Shriver - 7
Gunston - 1,114 (-0.7% since June 2020)
HB - 243
Jefferson - 852 (-21.1% since June 2020)
Kenmore - 932 (-6.5% since June 2020)
Swanson - 891 (-8.1% since June 2020)
Williamsburg - 791 (-17.9% since June 2020)
Virtual - 204

Overall MS enrollment is -3.4% vs. June 2020.

Did APS shift some students out of TJ? That's quite a large drop. What happens if APS shifts a bunch of students there and then the old students come back. Do Gunston and TJ have larger building capacity than other schools?

[Anonymous]

• Adjusting the attendance areas for Arlington’s two English-Spanish immersion elementary schools, and working to create a balance of half native-Spanish speakers and half English-speakers at the schools.

Key just had a major disruption moving to a new building. They really shouldn't ask students to switch to another school, putting them in three different schools three years in a row (plus pandemic disruptions).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

• Adjusting the attendance areas for Arlington’s two English-Spanish immersion elementary schools, and working to create a balance of half native-Spanish speakers and half English-speakers at the schools.

Key just had a major disruption moving to a new building. They really shouldn't ask students to switch to another school, putting them in three different schools three years in a row (plus pandemic disruptions).

Don’t you think it will be forward-looking? Not moving current students, but newly admitted ones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Article also said moving some kids from Wakefield to W-L. All I hear from parents of kids at W-L is how packed it is there already. Is the former admin building they are converting to classrooms open yet?

W-L is just going to be so huge.

Nope they will drive away a bunch of families to FFX as planned

How big will WL get? Are they moving Wakefield and Yorktown PU into WL? I thought it’s size was from its own boundary?

Isn't W-L (our neighborhood school) going to get more space by taking over the administration building, whatever it's called?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

• Adjusting the attendance areas for Arlington’s two English-Spanish immersion elementary schools, and working to create a balance of half native-Spanish speakers and half English-speakers at the schools.

Key just had a major disruption moving to a new building. They really shouldn't ask students to switch to another school, putting them in three different schools three years in a row (plus pandemic disruptions).

Don’t you think it will be forward-looking? Not moving current students, but newly admitted ones?

I hope so, but APS hasn't committed. That also runs into the sibling and busing issues.

APS has previously refused to grandfather students for other boundary changes because it makes transportation a mess.