Why is my kid zoned for the further away school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure your house is not the only one in the neighborhood assigned to that school, right? It's possible you're very close to a boundary line, so maybe the people across the street are zoned for another school. You can go to this site and enter your address to see for sure:

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/SchoolAssignmentTool2/Index.xhtml

This is the answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posted this in the wrong forum earlier, hoping to get some help here!

We just moved. Seems like most kids in the neighborhood go to one elementary school yet we are assigned to a different one that’s actually further away. Is this common? We would like him to go to the school with most of the neighborhood kids. I’m assuming they won’t make any changes or approve any requests to switch assigned school?

Yes, it is impossible to assign every house to the closest school. They would have to find perfectly located land for every school and ensure that neighborhoods were built perfectly around every school. MoCo is fairly wealthy but the money for this does not grow on trees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is your school K-2 and 3-5?
If so, your K-2 school may be the further one with the 3-5 being the closer one. If you want to go to a K-5 school, you should ask for it. For example there are people living close to PineCrest ES (3-5) who are bussed to Montgomery Knolls ES (K-2) even though Highland View ES is closer to them.
I personally know several families zoned for Montgomery Knolls who were able to transfer to Highland View ES.

That makes no sense when HVES is overcapacity and PCES and MKES have empty seats.

I'm told if the school you want to go is less crowded and the one your zoned for is overcrowded you have a much better chance of getting the COSA through

[Anonymous]

It happens. I can see Westland from my house yet my child is a Pyle. it's ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is your school K-2 and 3-5?
If so, your K-2 school may be the further one with the 3-5 being the closer one. If you want to go to a K-5 school, you should ask for it. For example there are people living close to PineCrest ES (3-5) who are bussed to Montgomery Knolls ES (K-2) even though Highland View ES is closer to them.
I personally know several families zoned for Montgomery Knolls who were able to transfer to Highland View ES.

Are you sure you aren’t talking about New Hampshire Estates and Oakview? I’m not sure that HVES is really closer to Pinecrest than MKES is.

I think they were referring to Forrest Knolls since FKES is also overcrowded and parts of FKES boundaries were redrawn to MKES/Pine Crest but some families chose to COSA back to FKES (which kind of defeats the puprose of changing the boundaries to alleviate overcrowding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is your school K-2 and 3-5?
If so, your K-2 school may be the further one with the 3-5 being the closer one. If you want to go to a K-5 school, you should ask for it. For example there are people living close to PineCrest ES (3-5) who are bussed to Montgomery Knolls ES (K-2) even though Highland View ES is closer to them.
I personally know several families zoned for Montgomery Knolls who were able to transfer to Highland View ES.

Are you sure you aren’t talking about New Hampshire Estates and Oakview? I’m not sure that HVES is really closer to Pinecrest than MKES is.

I think they were referring to Forrest Knolls since FKES is also overcrowded and parts of FKES boundaries were redrawn to MKES/Pine Crest but some families chose to COSA back to FKES (which kind of defeats the puprose of changing the boundaries to alleviate overcrowding

Now that the new boundary has taken effect, FKES is no longer overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember this come time for September board of education elections and do not vote for any incumbents.

Let's remember that Montgomery county has not been able to redraw boundaries in decades because Nice UMC Parents who scream about housing values every time there's a move to redo boundaries. I mean nobody is racist but God forbid their kid to go to a school that is not x% white and Asian. Will somebody please think of the test scores and the great school ratings?

[Anonymous]

OP, post the school or you are a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, post the school or you are a troll.

my money is on troll