Wotton boundaries, is there a talk about any changes?

[Anonymous]

Part of RC may move to Dufief but then back to Lakelands Park MS and QO -split articulation .
Moving them on to Wootton hasn't been decided.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought they were looking at rezoning some areas with Dufief ES and RC ES, and also Gaithersburg HS to Wootton. Nothing written in stone yet.

Gaithersburg HS kids getting rezoned to Wootton would be a disaster. Seriously this would never happen just because of the sheer amount of pure freak out the entire cluster would be in.

[Anonymous]

Heard they may move some Cold Spring people to Ritchie Park since Cold Spring so overcrowded and RM is getting a new ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heard they may move some Cold Spring people to Ritchie Park since Cold Spring so overcrowded and RM is getting a new ES.[/quote

Cold Spring is underenrolled. You are confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought they were looking at rezoning some areas with Dufief ES and RC ES, and also Gaithersburg HS to Wootton. Nothing written in stone yet.

yes they were talking about that. Some kind of rezoning involving the areas along I-370 from Gaithersburg HS to Wooton HS. I'm not sure of the current state of that discussion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't know if it means anything but I heard that the new head of capital planning (or whatever that department is called) came over from Howard County Public Schools.

And at HCPSS they were constantly rezoning schools school boundaries for a while. ie there were parts originally zoned for River Hill that got changed to Atholton.

Then there was something about updating the areas that fed into Hammond and Reservoir.

Some parents talked about going to school board meetings about these rezonings.

So maybe the new person is more willing to redraw boundaries. Assuming that they get the necessary support and approval to do so.

HoCo is much smaller and the SES/race disparity isn't as large as MCPS. Much harder to do here, I would think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heard they may move some Cold Spring people to Ritchie Park since Cold Spring so overcrowded and RM is getting a new ES.

Cold Spring is underenrolled. You are confused.

I think that PP is a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought they were looking at rezoning some areas with Dufief ES and RC ES, and also Gaithersburg HS to Wootton. Nothing written in stone yet.

Yep I heard they were considering sending part of Rachel Carson to Dufief - which would then mean Wootton. I hadn't heard about Gaithersburg HS.

THe planning document is kept relatively up to date - http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/

I don't think anyone in the Wootton cluster is in danger of being zoned out of it. Rather, other areas will more than likely get zoned into it since Wootton cluster is under capacity overall, and continue to be so in the future.

Here's the planning doc for Gaithersburg HS:

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP18_Chap4_Gaithersburg.pdf

Looks like GHS may get rezoned with Sherwood and MacGruder.

Dufief planinng:

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP18_Chap4_Wootton.pdf

"Planning Issue: Projections indicate that enrollment at Rachel
Carson Elementary School will exceed capacity by 92 seats or
more by the end of the six-year planning period. To address
the high enrollment at Rachel Carson Elementary School,
the Board of Education approved the expansion of DuFief
Elementary School to accommodate the overutilization of
Rachel Carson Elementary School"

I know Rachel Carson is overcrowded but location-wise it seems strange to pull students from there down to the Wootton cluster, when there is over crowding in the RM cluster which is walkable to Wootton and other cluster elementary schools from some nearby neighborhoods.

Where do you think RC kids should go then? Darnetown? Germantown?

[Anonymous]

The motion of moving southern part of I 270 of Gaithersburg HS to Wooten HS had been rejected by superintendent last year. Around 350 students from Rachel Carson ES will be reassigned to Dufief ES, which will be renovated and expanded in 2022 or later. But, this is no boundary change meaning the re-assigned students will back to Lakeland MS rather than Frost MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The motion of moving southern part of I 270 of Gaithersburg HS to Wooten HS had been rejected by superintendent last year. Around 350 students from Rachel Carson ES will be reassigned to Dufief ES, which will be renovated and expanded in 2022 or later. But, this is no boundary change meaning the re-assigned students will back to Lakeland MS rather than Frost MS.

source? curious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The motion of moving southern part of I 270 of Gaithersburg HS to Wooten HS had been rejected by superintendent last year. Around 350 students from Rachel Carson ES will be reassigned to Dufief ES, which will be renovated and expanded in 2022 or later. But, this is no boundary change meaning the re-assigned students will back to Lakeland MS rather than Frost MS.

source? curious

I-270 is a North-South road. That really doesn't define a boundary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought they were looking at rezoning some areas with Dufief ES and RC ES, and also Gaithersburg HS to Wootton. Nothing written in stone yet.

Yep I heard they were considering sending part of Rachel Carson to Dufief - which would then mean Wootton. I hadn't heard about Gaithersburg HS.

THe planning document is kept relatively up to date - http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/

I don't think anyone in the Wootton cluster is in danger of being zoned out of it. Rather, other areas will more than likely get zoned into it since Wootton cluster is under capacity overall, and continue to be so in the future.

Here's the planning doc for Gaithersburg HS:

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP18_Chap4_Gaithersburg.pdf

Looks like GHS may get rezoned with Sherwood and MacGruder.

Dufief planinng:

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP18_Chap4_Wootton.pdf

"Planning Issue: Projections indicate that enrollment at Rachel
Carson Elementary School will exceed capacity by 92 seats or
more by the end of the six-year planning period. To address
the high enrollment at Rachel Carson Elementary School,
the Board of Education approved the expansion of DuFief
Elementary School to accommodate the overutilization of
Rachel Carson Elementary School"

I know Rachel Carson is overcrowded but location-wise it seems strange to pull students from there down to the Wootton cluster, when there is over crowding in the RM cluster which is walkable to Wootton and other cluster elementary schools from some nearby neighborhoods.

Where do you think RC kids should go then? Darnetown? Germantown?

They should go to the BOE and complain about the crappy population-growth models MCPS uses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The motion of moving southern part of I 270 of Gaithersburg HS to Wooten HS had been rejected by superintendent last year. Around 350 students from Rachel Carson ES will be reassigned to Dufief ES, which will be renovated and expanded in 2022 or later. But, this is no boundary change meaning the re-assigned students will back to Lakeland MS rather than Frost MS.

last year. was last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The motion of moving southern part of I 270 of Gaithersburg HS to Wooten HS had been rejected by superintendent last year. Around 350 students from Rachel Carson ES will be reassigned to Dufief ES, which will be renovated and expanded in 2022 or later. But, this is no boundary change meaning the re-assigned students will back to Lakeland MS rather than Frost MS.

last year. was last year.

Wootton is bursting. No way they're sending more kids there

[Anonymous]

Most of those homes in Potomac now are investment properties, sold. Empty. nobody lives there. So that is why projected enrollment is
lower and will be lower still.