Woodward HS boundary study - BCC, Blair, Einstein, WJ, Kennedy, Northwood, Wheaton, Whitman impacts

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Anonymous wrote:What will most likely happen is that Kensington Parkwood Elementary will be added to the DCC cluster with Einstein being the home school. As a result two present Einstein feeder elementary schools will be moved further inside.

Being the whitest school in Montgomery County, the Einstein teams needs these test scores and lack of diversity to balance out what they have.

Not sure what you meant, but Whitman is the whitest school.

Whitest in the DCC?

That poster is just another in the long line of annoying people who like to provoke the ToK parents. Those of us in Kensington and zoned for Einstein don’t have any desire for Parkwood to be added to Einstein. Einstein already has the lowest capacity of the schools in this boundary study and is terribly overcrowded. I don’t want my kid attending school in portables just because someone is trying to stick it to the ToK parents.

New word - what is a Tok parent?

"Town of Kensington." Town residents are zoned to WJ, while others with Kensington addresses but outside the town limits are zoned for Einstein.

Some outside the ToK with Kensington addresses go to Einstein. Many go to WJ, too. Postal addresses have no bearing on MCPS.

Yes, but the easternmost part of MCPS's boundary line for Kensington-Parkwood/WJ is clearly based on the Town of Kensington's boundary line:

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I don't know how long this arrangement has been in place, or if it is codified anywhere, but it will be interesting to see if there are any new boundary options that make changes.

Historically, MCPS tries to not split small incorporated municipalities.

These are all of the inc. towns in MoCo. Other than R'ville, G'burg, and Takoma Park they're tiny, so keeping them together isn't difficult.

Brookeville (inc. 1808), Rockville (1860), Poolesville (1867), Gaithersburg (1878), Barnesville (1888), Takoma Park (1890), Laytonsville (1892), Kensington (1894), Garrett Park (1898), Glen Echo (1904), Somerset (1906), Chevy Chase Village (1910), Town of Chevy Chase (1918), Washington Grove (1937), Village of Chevy Chase, Sections 3 and 5 (1982), Martin's Additions (1985), Chevy Chase View (1993), and North Chevy Chase (1996).

Sure, but they could have still kept the municipality together within the Einstein cluster.

Personally, I'm all for keeping them together. If there was space, at Einstein since it's nearby, but Einstein is way overcrowded already. You can't shift in people from WJ to the west into Einstein without removing more people from Einstein on the east side. Where do you want to put them? There is no room at Blair, Wheaton, or Northwood. Maybe consider using, I don't know, Woodward? It seems closer and will have space.

Will the capacity of the brand new Northwood be over 2300 students? Even so I have doubts it could take on students from Einstein with Montgomery Blair growing.

Northwood's new capacity will be 2260. It will not have enough room even to handle all of Blair's overcrowding, let alone Einstein's or Wheaton's as well.

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They need to also build an addition at Einstein. Which would enable all these boundaries to be so much more sensible. But MCPS seems uninterested in revisiting this option.

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Anonymous wrote:They need to also build an addition at Einstein. Which would enable all these boundaries to be so much more sensible. But MCPS seems uninterested in revisiting this option.

Maybe they can keep raising property taxes to pay for all this growth.

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Yet again this brings me back to why they would move Whitman kids over (where they have below capacity enrollment) unless it truly is more about diversity than overcrowding

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Anonymous wrote:Yet again this brings me back to why they would move Whitman kids over (where they have below capacity enrollment) unless it truly is more about diversity than overcrowding

They can move some out of whitman and others in.

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Anonymous wrote:So when they make the school changes do become effective immediately? Do kids already in middle and high school have to switch schools right away even if it would be their final year (I.e. 8th or senior)?

Usually juniors and seniors do not switch...not sure about middle school.

8th graders do not switch but 6th and 7th graders do. My kid was in the last class at Westland the year Silver Creek opened.

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Because as long as you're doing a boundary study, it makes sense to look at all of the boundaries in the area. The Whitman boundaries were not engraved on stone tablets handed down on Mount Sinai. They can change.

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Anonymous wrote:Because as long as you're doing a boundary study, it makes sense to look at all of the boundaries in the area. The Whitman boundaries were not engraved on stone tablets handed down on Mount Sinai. They can change.

I get that. I’m just saying there’s so much talk about the serious overcrowding issues at every other school in the boundary study except Whitman. So deal with those and leave Whitman alone. Or shift some kids TO Whitman instead of away from it

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Anonymous wrote:Because as long as you're doing a boundary study, it makes sense to look at all of the boundaries in the area. The Whitman boundaries were not engraved on stone tablets handed down on Mount Sinai. They can change.

I get that. I’m just saying there’s so much talk about the serious overcrowding issues at every other school in the boundary study except Whitman. So deal with those and leave Whitman alone. Or shift some kids TO Whitman instead of away from it

Meh. They can mix Whitman up with the rest. Keeps it interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:Because as long as you're doing a boundary study, it makes sense to look at all of the boundaries in the area. The Whitman boundaries were not engraved on stone tablets handed down on Mount Sinai. They can change.

I get that. I’m just saying there’s so much talk about the serious overcrowding issues at every other school in the boundary study except Whitman. So deal with those and leave Whitman alone. Or shift some kids TO Whitman instead of away from it

They can shift kids TO Whitman and also FROM Whitman.

B-CC is also not over capacity, by the way. So no, it's not "every other school in the boundary study".

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They need to renovate Einstein. It’s not in great shape.

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But why mess with a school if you don’t need to?

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t people going to flip out about their home values if they are redistricted to a “worse” high school? I can see people freaking out if their neighborhood goes from WJ to Einstein. Or even Whitman to BCC or WJ. That’s potentially a couple $100k loss in home values. What about those that stretched to by a smaller/older home in one of those neighborhoods because of the assigned schools? I’m guessing mcps won’t care at all about that?

Of course they are. That’s the only reason it hasn’t happened.

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Nope. MCPS cares about schools, not housing values. Besides, they would tell you the schools are all the same/equal

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. MCPS cares about schools, not housing values. Besides, they would tell you the schools are all the same/equal

Mostly they are except for the math acceleration only offered at affluent schools.