B-CC/WJ capacity cluster meeting

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

I don't know about CCES, but keep your eyes open for a boundary study related to the Westbrook/Somerset changes coming soon.

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.

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.

No way this could go into effect in Fall 2020. The only boundaries changing for Fall 2020 are for the schools included in the two current boundary studies, for Clarksburg/Northwest/Seneca Valley and Forest Knolls/Montgomery Knolls/Pine Crest. Boundary studies take at least six months from start to finish. New boundaries are finalized ~10 months in advance of the first day at the new school because of all the logistical changes that go with them, including revised staffing allocations, transfers and hiring, new bus routes, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

This would probably not make the Kenwood neighborhood very happy.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

I don't know about CCES, but keep your eyes open for a boundary study related to the Westbrook/Somerset changes coming soon.

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.

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.

No way this could go into effect in Fall 2020. The only boundaries changing for Fall 2020 are for the schools included in the two current boundary studies, for Clarksburg/Northwest/Seneca Valley and Forest Knolls/Montgomery Knolls/Pine Crest. Boundary studies take at least six months from start to finish. New boundaries are finalized ~10 months in advance of the first day at the new school because of all the logistical changes that go with them, including revised staffing allocations, transfers and hiring, new bus routes, etc.

It sounded like they were going to make a quick decision to fill the 300 seats at Westbrook. If you think about it, they can grandfather 4th and 5th Grades into the current school and buy themselves some time to build out a few more classrooms at Westbrook before moving the whole cohort of whichever kids they move.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

This would probably not make the Kenwood neighborhood very happy.

Maybe, but I don’t think most people view Somerset and Westbrook as all that different, nor is Westbrook much farther away.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

This would probably not make the Kenwood neighborhood very happy.

Some might resist change but most would be quite happy with the Westbrook. It is lovely

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

This would probably not make the Kenwood neighborhood very happy.

Some might resist change but most would be quite happy with the Westbrook. It is lovely

I agree. My kids go to Somerset (and probably will continue to) but I wouldn’t mind if they were switched to Westbrook if we lived in Kenwood or Friendship Heights. Very similar schools and very similar commutes. This should be an easy change as boundary alterations go.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Don’t you think they will take all of Friendship Heights (and Kenwood) and put it in Westbrook? I thought part of this process was to make room at Somerset to move in some of the kids from Bethesda Elementary to reduce crowding there as well. So, you need to pull Somerset down below capacity to make space.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Don’t you think they will take all of Friendship Heights (and Kenwood) and put it in Westbrook? I thought part of this process was to make room at Somerset to move in some of the kids from Bethesda Elementary to reduce crowding there as well. So, you need to pull Somerset down below capacity to make space.

East Bethesda could also go to Rosemary Hills/North Chevy Chase. Or the northern or western part of Bethesda Elementary School zone could be shuffled to Whitman or WJ/Woodward elementary schools. Lots of opportunities to help with BES crowding (and they're also planning an addition, i believe).

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Don’t you think they will take all of Friendship Heights (and Kenwood) and put it in Westbrook? I thought part of this process was to make room at Somerset to move in some of the kids from Bethesda Elementary to reduce crowding there as well. So, you need to pull Somerset down below capacity to make space.

East Bethesda could also go to Rosemary Hills/North Chevy Chase. Or the northern or western part of Bethesda Elementary School zone could be shuffled to Whitman or WJ/Woodward elementary schools. Lots of opportunities to help with BES crowding (and they're also planning an addition, i believe).

No way in hell East bethesda would accept going to RHES

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Don’t you think they will take all of Friendship Heights (and Kenwood) and put it in Westbrook? I thought part of this process was to make room at Somerset to move in some of the kids from Bethesda Elementary to reduce crowding there as well. So, you need to pull Somerset down below capacity to make space.

East Bethesda could also go to Rosemary Hills/North Chevy Chase. Or the northern or western part of Bethesda Elementary School zone could be shuffled to Whitman or WJ/Woodward elementary schools. Lots of opportunities to help with BES crowding (and they're also planning an addition, i believe).

No way in hell East bethesda would accept going to RHES

Why not? They did until recently. It's not that far (there's even a part of Bethesda farther north and west of East Bethesda, off Beach Road, that goes to Rosemary Hills).

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Don’t you think they will take all of Friendship Heights (and Kenwood) and put it in Westbrook? I thought part of this process was to make room at Somerset to move in some of the kids from Bethesda Elementary to reduce crowding there as well. So, you need to pull Somerset down below capacity to make space.

East Bethesda could also go to Rosemary Hills/North Chevy Chase. Or the northern or western part of Bethesda Elementary School zone could be shuffled to Whitman or WJ/Woodward elementary schools. Lots of opportunities to help with BES crowding (and they're also planning an addition, i believe).

No way in hell East bethesda would accept going to RHES

Why not? They did until recently. It's not that far (there's even a part of Bethesda farther north and west of East Bethesda, off Beach Road, that goes to Rosemary Hills).

+1 East Bethesda is like 3-4 miles from Rosemary Hills. Kensington and parts of Chevy Chase are 5 miles from Rosemary Hills. I'm not sure why this would be off the table, especially the northern part of East Bethesda near Jones Bridge Road, which is closer to North Chevy Chase ES than it is to Bethesda Elementary.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there. The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.

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?

I don't know about CCES, but keep your eyes open for a boundary study related to the Westbrook/Somerset changes coming soon.

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.

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.

No way this could go into effect in Fall 2020. The only boundaries changing for Fall 2020 are for the schools included in the two current boundary studies, for Clarksburg/Northwest/Seneca Valley and Forest Knolls/Montgomery Knolls/Pine Crest. Boundary studies take at least six months from start to finish. New boundaries are finalized ~10 months in advance of the first day at the new school because of all the logistical changes that go with them, including revised staffing allocations, transfers and hiring, new bus routes, etc.

It sounded like they were going to make a quick decision to fill the 300 seats at Westbrook. If you think about it, they can grandfather 4th and 5th Grades into the current school and buy themselves some time to build out a few more classrooms at Westbrook before moving the whole cohort of whichever kids they move.

New CIP is out. Westbrook recommended addition scheduled to open Fall 2021. The board can authorize a boundary study at next month's meeting, to start in the spring, looking at Westbrook, Somerset and adjacent schools, with a boundary decision made in Nov. 2020. Also, Bethesda ES recommended addition scheduled to open Fall 2023.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP21_Chap4_BCC.pdf

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Plus a new "programmed" ES for BCC/WJ clusters, opening date TBD.

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Anonymous wrote:Plus a new "programmed" ES for BCC/WJ clusters, opening date TBD.

Do we know when they're scheduled to decide which site will get the new elementary school?

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Anonymous wrote:They should send all of Kensington to Einstein. And all of Rosemary hills to Northwood.

That would help BCC crowding, WJ crowding and add middle class families to those two lower performing clusters

The reason why there are middle class families in Rosemary Hills is because it feeds into BCC. You take that away and the neighborhood gets less middle class.

I find it so amusing that BCC is like the least overcrowded of the lower MoCo school and still the folks in the wealthier parts are plotting to slice off anything east of Rock Creek Park or north of the Beltway.

IMO, if folks want things changed, then "they" should mess with the borders on the west side and send kids from their to Whitman / WJ / Woodward and leave the east side alone. It's racially and socieconomically diverse and high performing and has sufficient capacity across the lower and middle schools for the next decade. The boundaries are long-standing at this point and everyone is used to them, and now that kids go to Silver Creek instead of Westbrook things are logistically easier.