MPSA - new school or move to north Arlington?

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Anonymous wrote:I think pk-8 MPSA at one of the low enrollment North Arlington schools is probably the best way to move the school relatively cheaply, free up space at Gunston, and give the Arlington Tech campus the space it needs. It's just not very accessible to South Arlington families. But it's definitely preferable to the School Board spending $50 million to renovate the old Career Center building to custom-build it for MPSA (which is what MPSA wants, I think). It doesn't make sense to have it on that campus anymore, anyway.

Unfortunately, losing any elementary school is likely to mean we are going to have to build another one soon. But the new school should be a neighborhood school, not an option program.

No we won’t need another elem, families are going private same reason no new high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Are they going to combine the middle school with it to make a K-8 school? It would give some relief to Gunston, which is massively over-crowded.

How big is current career center site? Maybe it would fit the whole k-8 program.

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Anonymous wrote:Do people in NW Arlington care which school MPSA takes over? Assuming it won’t go into Discovery because the building is too new.

Of course they care. Nobody wants to lose "their" neighborhood school - and especially when it is supposed to be "walkable" even though they drive for drop-off and/or pickup anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:So Duran confirmed at last SB meeting that MPSA would have to relocate as new careeer center gets built. Will it move to north Arlington and replace a school there or get a new school building in south Arlington? Any place that makes sense other than near the current site?

If they build a NEW school for a program again there will be pitchforks.

Buh bye Nottingham, you know most of your kids will be private in 4 years anyway.

I look forward to my home value going up even more when my house is walkable to Discovery and MPSA.

I think you're sorely over-estimating the value of being .5m from MPSA.

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Anonymous wrote:So Duran confirmed at last SB meeting that MPSA would have to relocate as new careeer center gets built. Will it move to north Arlington and replace a school there or get a new school building in south Arlington? Any place that makes sense other than near the current site?

If they build a NEW school for a program again there will be pitchforks.

Buh bye Nottingham, you know most of your kids will be private in 4 years anyway.

I look forward to my home value going up even more when my house is walkable to Discovery and MPSA.

Agree but MPSA will have to go to Discovery or Tuckahoe. Easier for Nottingham to take trailers and it is the most walkable neighborhood school.

The answer is always Tuckahoe – closer to transportation options.

Don't poke the Tuckahoe bear...or he will remind us of all the dense housing that is going in, Tuckahoe will be over capacity with all of those townhouses oh my.

What, like Nottingham is going to be inundated with multi-family housing? or Discovery? or Jamestown?

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Anonymous wrote:Are they going to combine the middle school with it to make a K-8 school? It would give some relief to Gunston, which is massively over-crowded.

Relocating 6-8 immersion would be a much greater capacity relief to Gunston. Middle school Montessori isn't very many students. They can combine it with K-5 and have the single location they want and the rest of us finally be rid of them. If they think they can grow so much to warrant high school level, they can have Nottingham....since it can handle those trailers better.

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Anonymous wrote:Do people in NW Arlington care which school MPSA takes over? Assuming it won’t go into Discovery because the building is too new.

Of course they care. Nobody wants to lose "their" neighborhood school - and especially when it is supposed to be "walkable" even though they drive for drop-off and/or pickup anyway.

I was just wondering because it’s not like you’re going from a good school to a bad school.

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Anonymous wrote:Do people in NW Arlington care which school MPSA takes over? Assuming it won’t go into Discovery because the building is too new.

Discovery is losing teachers and families left and right. Many are not happy.

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What is MPSA?

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Anonymous wrote:What is MPSA?

https://montessori.apsva.us/

It has 493 seats for the total program (390 K-5; 103 pre K). Discovery of the best choice is from a space perspective people. Larger than Tuckahoe and Nottingham.

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From a boundary, walk zone and transportation perspective, that wouldn’t make sense. Nottingham or discovery could more easily be eliminated as they overlap walk zones with multiple schools- and discovery can take on many more students before they get to capacity. Cardinal woukd send kids where? No room at Ashlawn or Glebe. Some would go to Nottysbd the rest bussed somewhere random?

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Anonymous wrote:Do people in NW Arlington care which school MPSA takes over? Assuming it won’t go into Discovery because the building is too new.

Discovery is losing teachers and families left and right. Many are not happy.

Why?? We are back in school what is issue.

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Anonymous wrote:So Duran confirmed at last SB meeting that MPSA would have to relocate as new careeer center gets built. Will it move to north Arlington and replace a school there or get a new school building in south Arlington? Any place that makes sense other than near the current site?

If they build a NEW school for a program again there will be pitchforks.

Buh bye Nottingham, you know most of your kids will be private in 4 years anyway.

I look forward to my home value going up even more when my house is walkable to Discovery and MPSA.

I think you're sorely over-estimating the value of being .5m from MPSA.

.25, it’s a very easy walk. But that aside, it would be great for the neighborhood to get it. Nottingham is too far away for many people in SA to send their kids there for MPSA (and not especially accessible by mass transit either), which means lottery applications from SA will drop off noticeably and it will be easier for our kids to get in. It’s a bummer to a lose the current neighborhood shook, but kids adjust quickly and then we’ll have a walkable neighborhood school and a walkable option school. I truly hope APS brings MPSA to North Arlington.

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They’re just moving them into the old Arl Tech building, I believe. They aren’t being moved off site or to North Arlington, just to a different old building, much to MPSA’s PAC chagrin.