What’s the distance from a school where they will not rezone you?
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Anonymous
Based on recent (not 1987) boundary decisions, MCPS will not reassign someone who is in a walk zone to instead be in a bus zone. However, Horizon Hill is not in a walk zone. Horizon Hill is in a bus zone. Will MCPS reassign Horizon Hill from RM to Wootton? Maybe. Or, maybe not. Also, what about MCPS families in Horizon Hill who don't want to be reassigned from RM to Wootton? |
Anonymous
In all of the recent boundary studies, MCPS went to a lot of trouble to keep every student who was already in a walk zone in a walk zone. Zero students in walk zones were reassigned to be in bus zones. So yes, it actually does mean that if the neighborhood is in a walk zone, MCPS won't reassign the neighborhood to a different school (unless the neighborhood would also be in a walk zone for that school). But Horizon Hill is not in a walk zone. Horizon Hill is in a bus zone. So that doesn't apply to Horizon Hill. Now, MCPS might reassign Horizon Hill from a bus zone for RM to a walk zone for Wootton. That's what they did with the Rolling Hills apartments, which before the upcounty boundary study were in the bus zone for Northwest, but are now in the walk zone for Seneca Valley. Or, they might not - for example, the neighborhoods west of Germantown Road that were in the bus zone for Northwest and stayed in the bus zone for Northwest, even though they would have been in the walk zone for Seneca Valley. Geography/walking is ONE factor. It is not the ONLY factor. |