APS/SA boundary redrawing - meeting tonight

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Anonymous wrote:The presentation is up: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sept.-26-Getting-Started-Community-Mtg-Presentation.pdf

And new information here: https://www.apsva.us/elementary-school-boundary-change/

Am I reading this right, they are going to make one proposal and that's it?

Also, see the school-level data document. They refer to Fleet as "Fleet (Henry)" meaning, I guess, that they are going to put all of current Henry at Fleet?

I read that as the current/no change %s are for the Henry school, since there is not currently a Fleet school. The projections for the "no change" line would be if Fleet had the same current boundaries as Henry.

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My slide 14 is about the grandfathering proposal?

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Am I reading this correctly that Randolph is currently 92% FRL?
and that after this proposal will be
92% FRL?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like a good start will be the units south of the Pike that currently go to Henry. That looks to be ~150 kids right there. I'd guess those are the folks who will be showing up in force tonight to #resist.

Them plus the walk zone in Nauck will only get halfway to the current number of kids going to school there today.

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Anonymous wrote:So they balanced FARMS among Oakridge, Fleet and Hoffman-Boston and then threw up their hands for Randolph and Drew?

I don't know the Drew area well but there really isn't anything they can do about Randolph given county housing policy. The area right around Randolph is crammed full of low-income housing. They can fill the school completely just from that small boundary around it. The only way to make that school not massively low-income would be to make it an option school.

DP. The above is my understanding about the Randolph zone based on reading this board. I do know the Drew area though, and it has a small walk zone because of Glebe and Walter Reed and I think Four Mile Run. I don't think any of those can be crossed by elementary students. Drew has to be filled by bus riders. I posted slightly upthread what I thought the solution could be to alleviate Drew's fr/l rate, using PUs that can't walk to any school. Silly me, I thought after the MS boundary re-do that walking was top priority.

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Anonymous wrote:My slide 14 is about the grandfathering proposal?

Oh I found it. Am slow.

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https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/FREE-REDUCED-OCTOBER-31-2017.pdf

Last year Randolph was at about 74%

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I am south of the Pike and according to the new proposed map my neighborhood will continue to be zoned to Henry/Fleet. I have to say that’s a bit of a relief, although it could obviously still change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So they balanced FARMS among Oakridge, Fleet and Hoffman-Boston and then threw up their hands for Randolph and Drew?

I don't know the Drew area well but there really isn't anything they can do about Randolph given county housing policy. The area right around Randolph is crammed full of low-income housing. They can fill the school completely just from that small boundary around it. The only way to make that school not massively low-income would be to make it an option school.

Why isn’t there more discussion about making Randolph an option school? It uses the IB program, which would be a draw for a lot of families. The low-income housing area could then be reapportioned evenly among SA schools, many of which now seem to have relatively low FRL rates (especially in comparison), so that the low-income students aren’t all just sent to one school.

[Anonymous]

I'm kind of shocked they caved to the Henry families. Also surprised Alcova didnt get moved to Fleet. It seems like the county always caters to certain neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/FREE-REDUCED-OCTOBER-31-2017.pdf

Last year Randolph was at about 74%

And it jumped to 92%? Did a building open?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm kind of shocked they caved to the Henry families. Also surprised Alcova didnt get moved to Fleet. It seems like the county always caters to certain neighborhoods.

Without that neighborhood at Drew the farms rate will be over 80 percent, easily. That's why they didn't publish it in these documents. Itll be higher than carlin springs and they just don't care. Nauck wanted its own elementary and now APS is going to give it to them.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm kind of shocked they caved to the Henry families. Also surprised Alcova didnt get moved to Fleet. It seems like the county always caters to certain neighborhoods.

But moving that 1/2 of Alcova Heights to Fleet and redistricting those units South of Columbia Pike would have only made Fleet richer and whiter, right?

[Anonymous]

Also, in addition to maintaining Drew at over 80% fr/l, this proposal has Drew as the lone elementary that will send to 3 middle schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm kind of shocked they caved to the Henry families. Also surprised Alcova didnt get moved to Fleet. It seems like the county always caters to certain neighborhoods.

Without that neighborhood at Drew the farms rate will be over 80 percent, easily. That's why they didn't publish it in these documents. Itll be higher than carlin springs and they just don't care. Nauck wanted its own elementary and now APS is going to give it to them.

It's published here: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/School-Level-Data-Table-for-Existing-and-Proposed-Boundaries-Final.pdf

It's 83%.