Tuckahoe by the numbers - how can it stay a neighborhood school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone's walkers could ride a bus somewhere. What is 14:15 even saying? Tuckahoe has 190 current walkers not going to Reed or McKinley in any scenario. More than bunch of schools according to the APS maps.

How many of those walkers couldn’t walk to Nottingham?

[Anonymous]

It will be a showdown between Nottingham and Tuckahoe. Choose your t-shirt colors carefully, civic associations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone's walkers could ride a bus somewhere. What is 14:15 even saying? Tuckahoe has 190 current walkers not going to Reed or McKinley in any scenario. More than bunch of schools according to the APS maps.

14:20 On the map it looks like Tuckahoe is surrounded by i66, Lee and Sycamore. 74 students could walk to Nottingham without having to cross Sycamore. The county is under a budget crunch and we would need one less crossing guard. So really that leaves 116 or less walkers for Tuckahoe. 14:20 you will make it through these dark and stormy days **hugs**.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone's walkers could ride a bus somewhere. What is 14:15 even saying? Tuckahoe has 190 current walkers not going to Reed or McKinley in any scenario. More than bunch of schools according to the APS maps.

112 of whom could easily walk to Nottingham. You're talking about 78 students who are not obvious candidates to walk somewhere and may require a single bus route to take them all to another school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please check my math but I really don't see how Tuckahoe can continue as a neighborhood school. Just by looking at a map it doesn't look good.

Current Enrollment 528 K-5 students (Or 541 PreK-5)

There just will not be many left once Reed opens up :

Walkable to Reed - 186 Students
16040 - 37
16050 - 42
16060 - 41
16061 - 66

Bus to McKinley - 163 (because McKinley will send 281+ walkers to Reed)
16130 - 41
16121 - 10
16120 - 17
16110 - 54
16101 - ~5
16100 - 36

Walkable to Nottingham - 74 (because Nottingham will send 84 16070 walkers to Reed)
16030 - 38
16031 - 36

186 + 74 + 163 = 423 students to Reed / Nottingham / McKinley.

Currently enrollment at Tuckahoe is 528 K-5 (or 541 PreK-5)

528 - 423 = 105 left at Tuckahoe

There will be plenty of space for the 16020/16021/16022 PUs at Reed / Nottingham / McKinley because of the students that go to Tuckahoe as an Option.

Finally if any additional space is needed a few PUs can change in the Discovery / Glebe area.

What is the best option for Tuckahoe? Any alternatives seem to cause havoc across much of NW Arlington. How can we minimize student impact?

Oh no, “Tuckahoe parent”. No, no, no. Those 163 students are being moved to RELIEVE the overcrowding Nottingham parents cleverly outsourced to McKinley.

Now, I fully expect another effort to stuff McKinley so that Nottingham and Discovery enjoy breathing room. But everyone is wise now to potential “mistakes” in the projections.

Sorry Tuckahoe OP. You’re going to have who battle directly with the Nottingham and Discovery PTAs. Boy, I don’t envy you one bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be a showdown between Nottingham and Tuckahoe. Choose your t-shirt colors carefully, civic associations.

Man, it was a short break for all those people after the epic effort to overcrowd McKinley to their benefit. Life is so unfair.

[Anonymous]

Is there a standard for figuring out how many kids who could walk will instead be dropped off (because of extended day or indulgent parents)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please check my math but I really don't see how Tuckahoe can continue as a neighborhood school. Just by looking at a map it doesn't look good.

Current Enrollment 528 K-5 students (Or 541 PreK-5)

There just will not be many left once Reed opens up :

Walkable to Reed - 186 Students
16040 - 37
16050 - 42
16060 - 41
16061 - 66

Bus to McKinley - 163 (because McKinley will send 281+ walkers to Reed)
16130 - 41
16121 - 10
16120 - 17
16110 - 54
16101 - ~5
16100 - 36

Walkable to Nottingham - 74 (because Nottingham will send 84 16070 walkers to Reed)
16030 - 38
16031 - 36

186 + 74 + 163 = 423 students to Reed / Nottingham / McKinley.

Currently enrollment at Tuckahoe is 528 K-5 (or 541 PreK-5)

528 - 423 = 105 left at Tuckahoe

There will be plenty of space for the 16020/16021/16022 PUs at Reed / Nottingham / McKinley because of the students that go to Tuckahoe as an Option.

Finally if any additional space is needed a few PUs can change in the Discovery / Glebe area.

What is the best option for Tuckahoe? Any alternatives seem to cause havoc across much of NW Arlington. How can we minimize student impact?

Oh no, “Tuckahoe parent”. No, no, no. Those 163 students are being moved to RELIEVE the overcrowding Nottingham parents cleverly outsourced to McKinley.

Now, I fully expect another effort to stuff McKinley so that Nottingham and Discovery enjoy breathing room. But everyone is wise now to potential “mistakes” in the projections.

Sorry Tuckahoe OP. You’re going to have who battle directly with the Nottingham and Discovery PTAs. Boy, I don’t envy you one bit.

It's an epic battle pitting the entitled vs entitled.

Munching. Popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Can't wait

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a start, but I don't think you can just leave roughly 80 kids out there without figuring out where they'd go and call that a viable solution. 59 of those kids live in a single planning unit (16020), that's not a number you just squeeze in someplace.

They would get on a bus and go to Nottingham/Reed/McKinley or apply for the option school at Tuckahoe. We are only talking about 80 or so kids. That is why Tuckahoe has got to go! It isn't rocket science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a start, but I don't think you can just leave roughly 80 kids out there without figuring out where they'd go and call that a viable solution. 59 of those kids live in a single planning unit (16020), that's not a number you just squeeze in someplace.

They would get on a bus and go to Nottingham/Reed/McKinley or apply for the option school at Tuckahoe. We are only talking about 80 or so kids. That is why Tuckahoe has got to go! It isn't rocket science.

Haha, there's a catchphrase now? Nice. I like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a start, but I don't think you can just leave roughly 80 kids out there without figuring out where they'd go and call that a viable solution. 59 of those kids live in a single planning unit (16020), that's not a number you just squeeze in someplace.

Send them to Barcroft.

[Anonymous]

This data crunching would be great if we were opening Reed today. But we’re doing it in 3 1/2 year’s. Will these numbers be the same in 2021? Does everyone have confidence in APS projections? Nottingham will end up just as crowded as McKinley is now. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be a showdown between Nottingham and Tuckahoe. Choose your t-shirt colors carefully, civic associations.

Man, it was a short break for all those people after the epic effort to overcrowd McKinley to their benefit. Life is so unfair.

That's my feeling, too. Karma. I hope Nottingham goes down.

[Anonymous]

Not a Tuckahoe parent ------ These numbers are today. By the time Reed opens, the number of students will have gone up. So, when calculating boundaries, do not put 725 in Reed. They aren't going to REPEAT opening up another school filled to the brim while seats are 1 mile away. I wonder if they won't find they need all those seats when this all happens in 3 years. It's better to leave room for transfers than to tie their hands with another choice school. No more choice schools!!