North Arl elementary schools
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Anonymous
Discovery actually does not pull from Tuckahoe. Some Tuckahoe students will go to Nottingham next year and McKinley the year after. |
Anonymous
And there are a few kids from Taylor going to Discovery. |
Anonymous
| I posted the thing about Discovery - I had in my spreadsheet that some Taylor kids would go to Discovery. For some reason I thought that had changed and Discovery would pull some kids from Tuckahoe. I haven't really been keeping up since it doesn't affect us. (we would be slated for Discovery but we're at ATS.) |
Anonymous
| The Tuckahoe families moving to McKinley aren't convinced that switch will happen. It is postponed until the completion of McK's addition, but there is a chance that the population prediction may be off again and they will stay at Tuckahoe. For reference, some of the Glebe houses in Tara-Leeway will be moving to McKinley, too. |
Anonymous
Where are you hearing this? I'm one of the Tara-Leeway homes slated now for McKinley; I didn't realize there was a chance we'd be redistrcted back to Tuckahoe...again. |
Anonymous
Just some Tuckahoe families. They don't trust that this chapter is closed. |
Anonymous
One suggestion. Park your car and get on a Capital Bikeshare bike -- bicycle around the area. You'll see much more and get a much better view. |
Anonymous
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Pls don't trust 14:11's very extensive list as it is wildly inaccurate in many ways. Use the boundary locators on the APS website. As PPs have mentioned, school boundaries are determined via Planning Units, not via neighborhoods so a given neighborhood may have planning units that go to two different schools.
Planning units were developed based on census data that is now quite out of date. The boundaries of the units themselves should probably at some point be revised but considering the fights that occurred during the redistricting process a year or two ago, that would likely result in a blood bath. |
Anonymous
Fabulous suggestion! Thanks! |
Anonymous
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Another piece of advice is to always double check the schools that the agents have listed on the sales materials against the actual APS boundary map. When we were looking two years ago, we found a number of houses advertised with the wrong schools in the MRIS listing. I don't think the agents were doing anything shady-- I think it more likely that they just went by what the sellers told them and if the seller hasn't had a kid in APS for a while they might not have known that the school boundaries had changed.
Also, keep in mind that the boundaries for both middle and high school are likely to change within the next 2-5 years so unless you are within a few blocks of a particular secondary school building, the assigned school may shift. |
Anonymous
| It's all a never ending guessing game. Have to take one year at a time. |