APS Middle School Boundary Changes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing has been announced yet. I suspect their preferred plan is to do nothing unless they absolutely have to because of overcrowding.

+2. They've also been using voluntary, targeted transfers and that's been working pretty well to balance enrollment.

Yes. Of COURSE they prefer to do nothing. Have you read these boards whenever a change is brought up? Parents lose their minds. If a school isn't bursting at the seams, they aren't doing anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

[Anonymous]

Surely, I can count on being zoned to the middle school I can see from my house...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

Is Ashlawn split into 3 middle schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surely, I can count on being zoned to the middle school I can see from my house...

Williamsburg or Gunston - yes
Swanson, Jefferson, or Kenmore - probably
Hamm - no promises

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

Is Ashlawn split into 3 middle schools?

No. Prior to the 2018 boundary changes Ashlawn split between Kenmore and Swanson for middle school, then all went to W-L for high school. Since a number of the Ashlawn neighborhoods are far outside the W-L walk zone, a large chunk was rezoned to Yorktown for high school in 2018.

So today Ashlawn splits to Swanson > then W-L or Yorktown, and also Kenmore > W-L or Yorktown (but with guaranteed neighborhood transfers to W-L).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surely, I can count on being zoned to the middle school I can see from my house...

Haha, no. Esp if you are at DHMS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

Is Ashlawn split into 3 middle schools?

DP, and wholeheartedly agree that the Abingdon feeder pattern to middle schools (and even to high schools) is the worst in APS. Abingdon goes to three middle schools. Abingdon-Kenmore and Abingdon-TJ are both particularly problematic, as Abingdon-Kenmore splits to two high schools, and I think Abingdon-TJ also splits to two. So, there are significant disruptions in the ES-MS transition, and again in the MS-HS transition.

If there is a more disruptive pattern in APS, I don't know about it. It's a great idea that PP had to send all ES students to the same middle school. I think Abingdon families would just like to see their kids going to only two.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

Is Ashlawn split into 3 middle schools?

DP, and wholeheartedly agree that the Abingdon feeder pattern to middle schools (and even to high schools) is the worst in APS. Abingdon goes to three middle schools. Abingdon-Kenmore and Abingdon-TJ are both particularly problematic, as Abingdon-Kenmore splits to two high schools, and I think Abingdon-TJ also splits to two. So, there are significant disruptions in the ES-MS transition, and again in the MS-HS transition.

If there is a more disruptive pattern in APS, I don't know about it. It's a great idea that PP had to send all ES students to the same middle school. I think Abingdon families would just like to see their kids going to only two.

Does Abingdon also split to Yorktown? Or just Wakefield and W-L.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

Is Ashlawn split into 3 middle schools?

DP, and wholeheartedly agree that the Abingdon feeder pattern to middle schools (and even to high schools) is the worst in APS. Abingdon goes to three middle schools. Abingdon-Kenmore and Abingdon-TJ are both particularly problematic, as Abingdon-Kenmore splits to two high schools, and I think Abingdon-TJ also splits to two. So, there are significant disruptions in the ES-MS transition, and again in the MS-HS transition.

If there is a more disruptive pattern in APS, I don't know about it. It's a great idea that PP had to send all ES students to the same middle school. I think Abingdon families would just like to see their kids going to only two.

A simple solution like sending all kids at an elementary school to one middle school hasn’t been overlooked, it just doesn’t work across the board in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

Is Ashlawn split into 3 middle schools?

DP, and wholeheartedly agree that the Abingdon feeder pattern to middle schools (and even to high schools) is the worst in APS. Abingdon goes to three middle schools. Abingdon-Kenmore and Abingdon-TJ are both particularly problematic, as Abingdon-Kenmore splits to two high schools, and I think Abingdon-TJ also splits to two. So, there are significant disruptions in the ES-MS transition, and again in the MS-HS transition.

If there is a more disruptive pattern in APS, I don't know about it. It's a great idea that PP had to send all ES students to the same middle school. I think Abingdon families would just like to see their kids going to only two.

A simple solution like sending all kids at an elementary school to one middle school hasn’t been overlooked, it just doesn’t work across the board in Arlington.

Yup. It really can’t work even at the middle school level, if we assign two middle schools to each high school. Unless the community is willing to give up certain benefits like walkability/proximity to schools.

When Arlington Tech is complete, that would likely be that last time for APS to pursue some kind of once-in-a-generation, large scale boundary change at all school levels. But they punted on doing that after the W-L addition. So they may decide not to do it again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

Is Ashlawn split into 3 middle schools?

DP, and wholeheartedly agree that the Abingdon feeder pattern to middle schools (and even to high schools) is the worst in APS. Abingdon goes to three middle schools. Abingdon-Kenmore and Abingdon-TJ are both particularly problematic, as Abingdon-Kenmore splits to two high schools, and I think Abingdon-TJ also splits to two. So, there are significant disruptions in the ES-MS transition, and again in the MS-HS transition.

If there is a more disruptive pattern in APS, I don't know about it. It's a great idea that PP had to send all ES students to the same middle school. I think Abingdon families would just like to see their kids going to only two.

A simple solution like sending all kids at an elementary school to one middle school hasn’t been overlooked, it just doesn’t work across the board in Arlington.

Yup. It really can’t work even at the middle school level, if we assign two middle schools to each high school. Unless the community is willing to give up certain benefits like walkability/proximity to schools.

When Arlington Tech is complete, that would likely be that last time for APS to pursue some kind of once-in-a-generation, large scale boundary change at all school levels. But they punted on doing that after the W-L addition. So they may decide not to do it again.

Arlington tech is a lottery, how does that affect school boundaries at all?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the break up the kids from Middle school going to high school? Elementary kids in one school should all funnel to the same middle school and then should all funnel from middle to high school together. There are 6 middle schools and 2 middle schools should fully funnel to each of the 3 high schools, correct?

Unless you've looked at the Abingdon zone and fixed it, no other zone gets as jerked around in each transition.

Ashlawn parents would like a word

Is Ashlawn split into 3 middle schools?

DP, and wholeheartedly agree that the Abingdon feeder pattern to middle schools (and even to high schools) is the worst in APS. Abingdon goes to three middle schools. Abingdon-Kenmore and Abingdon-TJ are both particularly problematic, as Abingdon-Kenmore splits to two high schools, and I think Abingdon-TJ also splits to two. So, there are significant disruptions in the ES-MS transition, and again in the MS-HS transition.

If there is a more disruptive pattern in APS, I don't know about it. It's a great idea that PP had to send all ES students to the same middle school. I think Abingdon families would just like to see their kids going to only two.

A simple solution like sending all kids at an elementary school to one middle school hasn’t been overlooked, it just doesn’t work across the board in Arlington.

Yup. It really can’t work even at the middle school level, if we assign two middle schools to each high school. Unless the community is willing to give up certain benefits like walkability/proximity to schools.

When Arlington Tech is complete, that would likely be that last time for APS to pursue some kind of once-in-a-generation, large scale boundary change at all school levels. But they punted on doing that after the W-L addition. So they may decide not to do it again.

Arlington tech is a lottery, how does that affect school boundaries at all?

All I know is that was the plan. Arlington Tech will be the size of a moderately sized high school. 1,600 students I think? How that affects the high school enrollment is anyone’s guess.

[Anonymous]

All of this is kind of making the Fairfax pyramid model look pretty good. (At least, my understanding of the Fairfax pyramid model…)