Washington-Liberty boundaries?

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is.

There’s another elementary that goes to 3 high schools? The weirdest part about this one is that’s is a small kid population. It’s doesn’t make a dent in numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

its not about Yorktown being bad, its about a group of 10 kids going to a totally different HS than their elementary/middle school friends b/c they are on the "yorktown island". In light of COVID and the stress kids have already been through, parents fought to have them go to W&L with their peers for their mental health. APS did not care.

Thousands of freshman start at new private schools every fall and might know only a few kids, and yet, they seem to survive.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

its not about Yorktown being bad, its about a group of 10 kids going to a totally different HS than their elementary/middle school friends b/c they are on the "yorktown island". In light of COVID and the stress kids have already been through, parents fought to have them go to W&L with their peers for their mental health. APS did not care.

Thousands of freshman start at new private schools every fall and might know only a few kids, and yet, they seem to survive.

By choice. Not the same at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Oh I didn't know that about Ashlawn!

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My kid is a very happy IB transfer from Yorktown to W-L

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is.

There’s another elementary that goes to 3 high schools? The weirdest part about this one is that’s is a small kid population. It’s doesn’t make a dent in numbers.

I'm not sure why people are saying Ashlawn goes to 3 middle schools and high schools. Pretty sure they go to Swanson or Kenmore and WL or Yorktown.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is.

There’s another elementary that goes to 3 high schools? The weirdest part about this one is that’s is a small kid population. It’s doesn’t make a dent in numbers.

I'm not sure why people are saying Ashlawn goes to 3 middle schools and high schools. Pretty sure they go to Swanson or Kenmore and WL or Yorktown.

That is correct, but it’s nuanced. All the children that go to Swanson go to Washington liberty. The majority of the children that go to Kenmore go to Washington liberty, with a very small percentage getting sent up to Yorktown.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is.

There’s another elementary that goes to 3 high schools? The weirdest part about this one is that’s is a small kid population. It’s doesn’t make a dent in numbers.

I'm not sure why people are saying Ashlawn goes to 3 middle schools and high schools. Pretty sure they go to Swanson or Kenmore and WL or Yorktown.

That is correct, but it’s nuanced. All the children that go to Swanson go to Washington liberty. The majority of the children that go to Kenmore go to Washington liberty, with a very small percentage getting sent up to Yorktown.

Not quite correct. The Ashlawn kids that live in Dominion Hills (north of Wilson Blvd) and go to Swanson were redistricted to Yorktown.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is.

There’s another elementary that goes to 3 high schools? The weirdest part about this one is that’s is a small kid population. It’s doesn’t make a dent in numbers.

I'm not sure why people are saying Ashlawn goes to 3 middle schools and high schools. Pretty sure they go to Swanson or Kenmore and WL or Yorktown.

That is correct, but it’s nuanced. All the children that go to Swanson go to Washington liberty. The majority of the children that go to Kenmore go to Washington liberty, with a very small percentage getting sent up to Yorktown.

Not quite correct. The Ashlawn kids that live in Dominion Hills (north of Wilson Blvd) and go to Swanson were redistricted to Yorktown.

And again, you’re not unique in this. Alcova Heights kids go to Barcroft. Kids from Barcroft split between Kenmore/TJ. And then both Kenmore and TJ split between Wakefield and W-L. And there are probably other neighborhoods on the edge of boundaries that have this same issue, but I only know this one. That’s what happens on the edge of boundaries.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is.

There’s another elementary that goes to 3 high schools? The weirdest part about this one is that’s is a small kid population. It’s doesn’t make a dent in numbers.

I'm not sure why people are saying Ashlawn goes to 3 middle schools and high schools. Pretty sure they go to Swanson or Kenmore and WL or Yorktown.

That is correct, but it’s nuanced. All the children that go to Swanson go to Washington liberty. The majority of the children that go to Kenmore go to Washington liberty, with a very small percentage getting sent up to Yorktown.

Not quite correct. The Ashlawn kids that live in Dominion Hills (north of Wilson Blvd) and go to Swanson were redistricted to Yorktown.

And again, you’re not unique in this. Alcova Heights kids go to Barcroft. Kids from Barcroft split between Kenmore/TJ. And then both Kenmore and TJ split between Wakefield and W-L. And there are probably other neighborhoods on the edge of boundaries that have this same issue, but I only know this one. That’s what happens on the edge of boundaries.

Exactly. I have no problem with Ashlawn being a split feeder. But the neighborhood is a bit peeved since all of Ashlawn used to feed into W-L. It is a tight neighborhood community. Another split feeder is the Woodbury Park apartments that feed into TJ from Innovation ES. Then those apartments split off to Yorktown, when the majority of TJ feeds into W-L and the remainder to Wakefield.

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Anonymous wrote:Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L.

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown. Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools. The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids. Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is.

There’s another elementary that goes to 3 high schools? The weirdest part about this one is that’s is a small kid population. It’s doesn’t make a dent in numbers.

I'm not sure why people are saying Ashlawn goes to 3 middle schools and high schools. Pretty sure they go to Swanson or Kenmore and WL or Yorktown.

OK, so the person who said Ashlawn is split into 3 middle and 3 high schools was being dramatic. Or perhaps counting the tiny number heading to HB.