APS 2021-2022 boundary-adjustments

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Anonymous wrote:What are the current MS enrollments? Is Hamm, which was low to begin with, even lower? Why is it not involved in the boundary shift? Did more kids materialize there? Is that why only TJ and Gunston are involved? Also, we can see from AEM that people don’t actually want to walk their kids to school, or hub stops. It’s almost like “walkable” is code for something else.

Hamm - 854 (+16.3% since June 2020)
Shriver - 7
Gunston - 1,114 (-0.7% since June 2020)
HB - 243
Jefferson - 852 (-21.1% since June 2020)
Kenmore - 932 (-6.5% since June 2020)
Swanson - 891 (-8.1% since June 2020)
Williamsburg - 791 (-17.9% since June 2020)
Virtual - 204

Overall MS enrollment is -3.4% vs. June 2020.

Did APS shift some students out of TJ? That's quite a large drop. What happens if APS shifts a bunch of students there and then the old students come back. Do Gunston and TJ have larger building capacity than other schools?

Don’t think they did, but they did stop allowing transfers for IB.

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What school is Cardinal? Is that what they are calling Reed, the new school that was just built??

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Anonymous wrote:What school is Cardinal? Is that what they are calling Reed, the new school that was just built??

Yes - previously McKinley

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Anonymous wrote:What school is Cardinal? Is that what they are calling Reed, the new school that was just built??

Yes - previously McKinley

Oh OK got it - I thought McKinley was now ATS!

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Anonymous wrote:What school is Cardinal? Is that what they are calling Reed, the new school that was just built??

Yes - previously McKinley

Oh OK got it - I thought McKinley was now ATS!

The old McKinley building is now ATS.

The Reed building is now called Cardinal and has most of the old McKinley students.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the current MS enrollments? Is Hamm, which was low to begin with, even lower? Why is it not involved in the boundary shift? Did more kids materialize there? Is that why only TJ and Gunston are involved? Also, we can see from AEM that people don’t actually want to walk their kids to school, or hub stops. It’s almost like “walkable” is code for something else.

I am also curious about Hamm. I was hoping they might rebalance Hamm and Swanson since they messed that up when setting the original Hamm boundaries. Is APS likely to continue to allow Swanson kids to lottery in for empty seats at Hamm if they don't adjust boundaries now?

They totally messed it up. So annoying.

APS needs to stop listening to the small and frantic groups of whiner parents and do the right thing from the get go. There is a graveyard of decisions made to appease whiners that end up not being the right thing long-term.

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Anonymous wrote:How are elementary enrollments in the NW sector?

You have Cardinal, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, and Discovery all in close proximity to each other. Does it still look like they'll all be around in the future as in-boundary schools?

I am hearing Nottingham and Discovery in particular are low enrollment. Some grade levels have only 2 classes. So maybe one of those gets the ax as neighborhood.

Since June 2020, Nottingham's and Discovery's enrollments are down by 19% and 16%, respectively. Tuckahoe's enrollment is down 21% while McKinley/Cardinal's enrollment is down 17%.

Caveat: none of that factors in students from those home schools who are in the VLP, but VLP ES students are only 2.4% of all ES students.

What's the info on Taylor?

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Anonymous wrote:How are elementary enrollments in the NW sector?

You have Cardinal, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, and Discovery all in close proximity to each other. Does it still look like they'll all be around in the future as in-boundary schools?

I am hearing Nottingham and Discovery in particular are low enrollment. Some grade levels have only 2 classes. So maybe one of those gets the ax as neighborhood.

Since June 2020, Nottingham's and Discovery's enrollments are down by 19% and 16%, respectively. Tuckahoe's enrollment is down 21% while McKinley/Cardinal's enrollment is down 17%.

Caveat: none of that factors in students from those home schools who are in the VLP, but VLP ES students are only 2.4% of all ES students.

What's the info on Taylor?

According to the principal last night, Taylor has 506 students. But Taylor also lost planning units in the boundary change that took effect this fall-- those units moved to ASFS. You'd think that would mean smaller classes, but no. My kid's 1st grade has 26 students in it. They have more 1st graders this year than they did kindergarten students last year, even with a smaller school boundary!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are the current MS enrollments? Is Hamm, which was low to begin with, even lower? Why is it not involved in the boundary shift? Did more kids materialize there? Is that why only TJ and Gunston are involved? Also, we can see from AEM that people don’t actually want to walk their kids to school, or hub stops. It’s almost like “walkable” is code for something else.

Hamm - 854 (+16.3% since June 2020)
Shriver - 7
Gunston - 1,114 (-0.7% since June 2020)
HB - 243
Jefferson - 852 (-21.1% since June 2020)
Kenmore - 932 (-6.5% since June 2020)
Swanson - 891 (-8.1% since June 2020)
Williamsburg - 791 (-17.9% since June 2020)
Virtual - 204

Overall MS enrollment is -3.4% vs. June 2020.

It is more helpful to see these numbers in relation to building capacity.

Hamm 854 (Building capacity 1000)
Gunston 1,114 (Building capacity 992)
Jefferson 852 (Building capacity 1,086)
Kenmore 932 (Building capacity 1,045)
Swanson 891 (Building capacity 948)
Williamsburg 791 (Building Capacity 997)

So you can see why they feel pressed to deal with Gunston but just generally don't want to upset the apple cart until they see where things land post covid.

Down the road, they likely need to move kids out of Swanson though. And the parents really fight that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are elementary enrollments in the NW sector?

You have Cardinal, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, and Discovery all in close proximity to each other. Does it still look like they'll all be around in the future as in-boundary schools?

I am hearing Nottingham and Discovery in particular are low enrollment. Some grade levels have only 2 classes. So maybe one of those gets the ax as neighborhood.

Since June 2020, Nottingham's and Discovery's enrollments are down by 19% and 16%, respectively. Tuckahoe's enrollment is down 21% while McKinley/Cardinal's enrollment is down 17%.

Caveat: none of that factors in students from those home schools who are in the VLP, but VLP ES students are only 2.4% of all ES students.

What's the info on Taylor?

Taylor - 427 (-29.5% vs. June 2020)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are elementary enrollments in the NW sector?

You have Cardinal, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, and Discovery all in close proximity to each other. Does it still look like they'll all be around in the future as in-boundary schools?

I am hearing Nottingham and Discovery in particular are low enrollment. Some grade levels have only 2 classes. So maybe one of those gets the ax as neighborhood.

Since June 2020, Nottingham's and Discovery's enrollments are down by 19% and 16%, respectively. Tuckahoe's enrollment is down 21% while McKinley/Cardinal's enrollment is down 17%.

Caveat: none of that factors in students from those home schools who are in the VLP, but VLP ES students are only 2.4% of all ES students.

What's the info on Taylor?

Taylor - 427 (-29.5% vs. June 2020)

Where are you getting that number? At back to school night last night, the Taylor principal said as of yesterday there were 506 students.

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Anonymous wrote:They aren't moving Fairlington. Stengle said in her presentation it would be the units that were proposed in the "Getting Started" map from back in 2018. That is the map that moved units to Drew that were not "contiguous" to other Drew units. Basically the units along S. George Mason and Four Mile run.

Is her presentation posted somewhere? I've been looking for it but can't find it.

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Anonymous wrote:Article also said moving some kids from Wakefield to W-L. All I hear from parents of kids at W-L is how packed it is there already. Is the former admin building they are converting to classrooms open yet?

W-L is just going to be so huge.

Nope they will drive away a bunch of families to FFX as planned

How big will WL get? Are they moving Wakefield and Yorktown PU into WL? I thought it’s size was from its own boundary?

Isn't W-L (our neighborhood school) going to get more space by taking over the administration building, whatever it's called?

Yes, approximately 500 more seats. But extremely limited new common space - essentially just space that can serve multiple purposes, including eating lunch. But no new gym, music, auditorium or library space and - obviously - no few field space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are elementary enrollments in the NW sector?

You have Cardinal, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, and Discovery all in close proximity to each other. Does it still look like they'll all be around in the future as in-boundary schools?

I am hearing Nottingham and Discovery in particular are low enrollment. Some grade levels have only 2 classes. So maybe one of those gets the ax as neighborhood.

Since June 2020, Nottingham's and Discovery's enrollments are down by 19% and 16%, respectively. Tuckahoe's enrollment is down 21% while McKinley/Cardinal's enrollment is down 17%.

Caveat: none of that factors in students from those home schools who are in the VLP, but VLP ES students are only 2.4% of all ES students.

What's the info on Taylor?

Taylor - 427 (-29.5% vs. June 2020)

Where are you getting that number? At back to school night last night, the Taylor principal said as of yesterday there were 506 students.

Apologies --> I meant 498 (Tuckahoe is 427; alphabetical order problems); the -29.5% is correct though.

That is of 6 am on September 3rd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are elementary enrollments in the NW sector?

You have Cardinal, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, and Discovery all in close proximity to each other. Does it still look like they'll all be around in the future as in-boundary schools?

I am hearing Nottingham and Discovery in particular are low enrollment. Some grade levels have only 2 classes. So maybe one of those gets the ax as neighborhood.

Since June 2020, Nottingham's and Discovery's enrollments are down by 19% and 16%, respectively. Tuckahoe's enrollment is down 21% while McKinley/Cardinal's enrollment is down 17%.

Caveat: none of that factors in students from those home schools who are in the VLP, but VLP ES students are only 2.4% of all ES students.

What's the info on Taylor?

Taylor - 427 (-29.5% vs. June 2020)

Where are you getting that number? At back to school night last night, the Taylor principal said as of yesterday there were 506 students.

Apologies --> I meant 498 (Tuckahoe is 427; alphabetical order problems); the -29.5% is correct though.

That is of 6 am on September 3rd.

The -29.5% is in no small part due to the rezoning. Taylor lost a lot of kids to ASFS.