B-CC/WJ capacity cluster meeting
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Anonymous
How would Westbrook/Somerset be split? Would Kenwood and Friendship Heights be rezoned to Westbrook? I feel like all of Chevy Chase east of Wisconsin should go to Chevy Chase ES. Has this been discussed? |
Anonymous
I don't know about CCES, but keep your eyes open for a boundary study related to the Westbrook/Somerset changes coming soon. |
Anonymous
MCPS has DROPPED their plan to build a new elementary school on a public county park site which includes the following parks: Fleming, Stratton, Ayrlawn, North Farm & Norwood! 
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/MCPS-Drops-Plan-to-Build-Schools-on-Parkland_Washington-DC-563144052.html?akmobile=o?akmobile=o&appVideoHub=y&fbclid=IwAR345C1wr6oWesr1xZ2in6mMTCkKSUEa1fHnhyas_iB5sE5dXGN9cIh0tVY *sorry if someone already posted this info. |
Anonymous
That's a really misleading story. It makes it sound like MCPS already had firm plans in place to go ahead with schools on multiple park sites, and the reporter's questions got them to cancel them. In reality, it was just a consultant's report laying out multiple possibilities, and no sites had even been selected yet. |
Anonymous
I wondered about that. M-NCPPC doesn't just give up park land. Silver Creek MS at Rock Creek Hills Local Park was an exception because MCPS used to own it and had a right to take it back. |
Anonymous
If they're first going to build out Westbrook to 740, that will take years, and the boundary study would be 18 months before the scheduled opening. |
Anonymous
At the meeting it seemed like the Westbrook/Somerset boundary change could go into effect fall 2020 or fall 2021. They are just building out a 3 classroom shell. But they don’t get the new CIP money until July 1 so unclear if they could do it in summer 2020 or if it would be summer 2021. |
Anonymous
It’s hard to move kids into CCES because of the CC-RHPS-NCC pairing. One of the parameters of this capacity study was not to mess with the pairing. |
Anonymous
It's just a tweak around the edges. If you put all of Chevy Chase east of Wisconsin into Rosemary Hills/CCES, that would allow all of the apartments around Rosemary Hills to go to NCC instead of CCES. |
Anonymous
That presentation has now been thrown out. The Park sites included as future school sites are not available for MCPS use. MCPS knew this. They have been called out about this and have now been forced to remove all of those options from the "study." More wasted dollars. |
Anonymous
MCPS is hardly the only county government agency that thinks M-NCPPC land ought to be land available for them to use. |
Anonymous
Didn’t there used to be an elementary school at Ayrlawn? |
Anonymous
Yes. There is an MCPS site at Ayrlawn AND a M-NCPPC site at Ayrlawn right next to each other. But also the BCC Y is in the old school building at Ayrlawn and basically no one in the community wants the Y to have to move out. |
Anonymous
| Ayrlawn is not technically off the list (the MCPS site) but without the park it is a very small site, maybe too small for a 740 seat ES, and everything new is being built to 740. No more small schools. |
Anonymous
Just based on my sense of where the kids are coming from, my guess would be that all of Kenwood moves to Westbrook and Friendship Heights is split between Westbrook and Somerset. There aren't a ton of kids coming to Somerset from Kenwood, but too many FH kids to move the entire group to one school or the other and keep it balanced. It seems like it could happen pretty quickly and easily, since Westbrook is undersubscribed and the distance to the Westbrook isn't much different than the distance to Somerset. |