If a school boundary changes when your kid is in 10th grade, what happens?

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Anonymous wrote:so a rising 9th grader would go to old HS for one year and then switch? it seems more reasonable that once you're in a school you can stay thru the terminal grade

Presumably you mean a rising 10th grader at the time of the boundary changes, but yes, some kids would spend their 9th grade year at one school and then 10-12 at another. If they did it your way, Woodward and Crown would start out with only one grade of kids and take three full years to reach full enrollment, which isn't really realistic.

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Anonymous wrote:so a rising 9th grader would go to old HS for one year and then switch? it seems more reasonable that once you're in a school you can stay thru the terminal grade

Presumably you mean a rising 10th grader at the time of the boundary changes, but yes, some kids would spend their 9th grade year at one school and then 10-12 at another. If they did it your way, Woodward and Crown would start out with only one grade of kids and take three full years to reach full enrollment, which isn't really realistic.

It's not totally unrealistic. Guilford Park High in Howard County opened up with only 9th and 10th graders it's first year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilford_Park_High_School

Although that's two grades of students, compared to the one grade which you're saying is unrealistic.

But there are schools that open without the full capacity of students.

[Anonymous]

What do they do about varsity sports teams and advanced courses and upper level performing arts groups if they don’t have any juniors and seniors? Are the sophomores who are ready for those things just out of luck?

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Anonymous wrote:What do they do about varsity sports teams and advanced courses and upper level performing arts groups if they don’t have any juniors and seniors? Are the sophomores who are ready for those things just out of luck?

Seems like it. But it's like that any students in the first group of a new school will have a pretty raw deal either way. Where it sounds like the Northwood students went a couple of years without an auditorium. And it's questionable if some new schools have/had athletic fields ready when the schools opened.

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Anonymous wrote:so a rising 9th grader would go to old HS for one year and then switch? it seems more reasonable that once you're in a school you can stay thru the terminal grade

Presumably you mean a rising 10th grader at the time of the boundary changes, but yes, some kids would spend their 9th grade year at one school and then 10-12 at another. If they did it your way, Woodward and Crown would start out with only one grade of kids and take three full years to reach full enrollment, which isn't really realistic.

It's not totally unrealistic. Guilford Park High in Howard County opened up with only 9th and 10th graders it's first year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilford_Park_High_School

Although that's two grades of students, compared to the one grade which you're saying is unrealistic.

But there are schools that open without the full capacity of students.

That is the assumed plan for Woodward as well.

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Anonymous wrote:so a rising 9th grader would go to old HS for one year and then switch? it seems more reasonable that once you're in a school you can stay thru the terminal grade

Presumably you mean a rising 10th grader at the time of the boundary changes, but yes, some kids would spend their 9th grade year at one school and then 10-12 at another. If they did it your way, Woodward and Crown would start out with only one grade of kids and take three full years to reach full enrollment, which isn't really realistic.

It's not totally unrealistic. Guilford Park High in Howard County opened up with only 9th and 10th graders it's first year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilford_Park_High_School

Although that's two grades of students, compared to the one grade which you're saying is unrealistic.

But there are schools that open without the full capacity of students.

Yes, that is exactly what MCPS is proposing to do as well. Honestly even that is a bit of a stretch but schools do it to make things easier for the kids. But you want to cut that in half and run a whole high school with only a few hundred freshmen?

[Anonymous]

So does that mean the new high school will start with just 9th and 10th graders in 2027 and those 10th graders will be the first to graduate from the school - Woodward or Crown?

What if your kid is taking some Math pathway (not magnet) in home school and the new school does not have the same offerings?

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Anonymous wrote:So does that mean the new high school will start with just 9th and 10th graders in 2027 and those 10th graders will be the first to graduate from the school - Woodward or Crown?

What if your kid is taking some Math pathway (not magnet) in home school and the new school does not have the same offerings?

Yes.

They will have to iron out the details about special programs or pathways. When they changed the boundaries for Seneca Valley, Clarksburg, and Northwest, there were certain cases specified where students could remain at their prior school to finish a unique pathway they had already started.

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Anonymous wrote:Does your kid get to finish out high school in the current school with a COSA or your kid has to go to the new school that you will be zoned for?

My kid will be in 9th grade in 2026-27. I am wondering what will happen for 10th grade since our high school will most likely be changed.

The superintendent has said he plans to recommend to the Board that rising 7th and 10th graders have to move to the new school, while rising 8th, 11th, and 12th graders get to stay at the old school.

It’s really disruptive to the rising 10th graders.

And the rising 7th graders. At least for the 10th graders there's some justification before you don't want the new high schools to have only freshmen in them and take 3 full years to fill up. But the middle schoolers are just changing places, not filling any empty schools, so there's no good reason to make the 7th graders switch besides "that's the way we've always done it."

High school is more detrimental as they need to apply for college. If they feel depressed during the change(e.g., leaving their friends), this has more impact on their future.

Maybe the kid can write an inspiring overcoming a hardship essay about changing high schools after freshman year.

You’re assuming all kids will be able to overcome this hardship without any damage.

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Anonymous wrote:Does your kid get to finish out high school in the current school with a COSA or your kid has to go to the new school that you will be zoned for?

My kid will be in 9th grade in 2026-27. I am wondering what will happen for 10th grade since our high school will most likely be changed.

The superintendent has said he plans to recommend to the Board that rising 7th and 10th graders have to move to the new school, while rising 8th, 11th, and 12th graders get to stay at the old school.

It’s really disruptive to the rising 10th graders.

And the rising 7th graders. At least for the 10th graders there's some justification before you don't want the new high schools to have only freshmen in them and take 3 full years to fill up. But the middle schoolers are just changing places, not filling any empty schools, so there's no good reason to make the 7th graders switch besides "that's the way we've always done it."

High school is more detrimental as they need to apply for college. If they feel depressed during the change(e.g., leaving their friends), this has more impact on their future.

Maybe the kid can write an inspiring overcoming a hardship essay about changing high schools after freshman year.

You’re assuming all kids will be able to overcome this hardship without any damage.

So they are not suppose to make changes because there could be outliers?

The boundaries are changing and students have to change with them. There will be some adjustment.

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Anonymous wrote:Does your kid get to finish out high school in the current school with a COSA or your kid has to go to the new school that you will be zoned for?

My kid will be in 9th grade in 2026-27. I am wondering what will happen for 10th grade since our high school will most likely be changed.

The superintendent has said he plans to recommend to the Board that rising 7th and 10th graders have to move to the new school, while rising 8th, 11th, and 12th graders get to stay at the old school.

It’s really disruptive to the rising 10th graders.

And the rising 7th graders. At least for the 10th graders there's some justification before you don't want the new high schools to have only freshmen in them and take 3 full years to fill up. But the middle schoolers are just changing places, not filling any empty schools, so there's no good reason to make the 7th graders switch besides "that's the way we've always done it."

High school is more detrimental as they need to apply for college. If they feel depressed during the change(e.g., leaving their friends), this has more impact on their future.

Maybe the kid can write an inspiring overcoming a hardship essay about changing high schools after freshman year.

You’re assuming all kids will be able to overcome this hardship without any damage.

So they are not suppose to make changes because there could be outliers?

The boundaries are changing and students have to change with them. There will be some adjustment.

They can make changes, but the impact should be minimized. Forcing high school students to leave their current school and attend a different one is not humane

[Anonymous]

We have been told DCC students who are now 8th graders will be able to stay at their high school even if they chose their home school and the home school changes.

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Anonymous wrote:so a rising 9th grader would go to old HS for one year and then switch? it seems more reasonable that once you're in a school you can stay thru the terminal grade

I don’t think they’ve really thought this through completely. I have kids at two different MCPS high schools and there are some pretty significant differences, both academically with course offerings/sequences and also with extracurriculars. It would be unfortunate to transition and find out your foreign language isn’t offered at the new school or you actually don’t have a spot in the chamber singers or quiz bowl team anymore and your club sport doesn’t exist. Not to mention the social aspect.

Yep. Can't wait for the chaos to begin. Thanks Taylor.

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Anonymous wrote:We have been told DCC students who are now 8th graders will be able to stay at their high school even if they chose their home school and the home school changes.

Yes, DCC students and anyone in a county-managed program can stay even if they're in 9th next year. Others will likely have to move.

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Anonymous wrote:We have been told DCC students who are now 8th graders will be able to stay at their high school even if they chose their home school and the home school changes.

Yes, DCC students and anyone in a county-managed program can stay even if they're in 9th next year. Others will likely have to move.

This is very unfair to current 7th graders. We made the sacrifice to drive to a DCC school out of consortium so we could have the access to Wheaton engineering and Blair CAP. There are 3 programs that any kid going to a DCC middle school can apply to.

So all this for nothing? Our home school sucks and we wanted DC to have every advantage they could.