Please explain how Silver Spring high school assignments work

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding. Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible.

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.

Ah yes the Einstein parents who “love” their school but just want to go to BCC for the drive have arrived to the chat. Funny thing about about it is there is no chance they are going to slice off the one upper SES neighborhood that is zoned to a high farms school like Einstein and send it to a high SES school like BCC. The funnier thing is if someone could afford Woodside they could have afforded a starter home in Bethesda zoned to a better school. They chose house over school but now have to live with that. Every signal person who bought a SFH zoned for the Bethesda schools could have afforded one the nicest homes or often 2 of them in silver spring or TP but realized there are other important factors.

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding. Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible.

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.

Ah yes the Einstein parents who “love” their school but just want to go to BCC for the drive have arrived to the chat. Funny thing about about it is there is no chance they are going to slice off the one upper SES neighborhood that is zoned to a high farms school like Einstein and send it to a high SES school like BCC. The funnier thing is if someone could afford Woodside they could have afforded a starter home in Bethesda zoned to a better school. They chose house over school but now have to live with that. Every signal person who bought a SFH zoned for the Bethesda schools could have afforded one the nicest homes or often 2 of them in silver spring or TP but realized there are other important factors.

They just have to reassign K-P to Einstein and Woodlin to BCC. And a BCC feeder to WJ, etc. Domino effect.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

I'm curious to see how this pans out because mcps hasn't done a holistic boundary reassignment in decades due to parents lawyering up every time they attempt it.

Some of the boundaries are bizarre like my friends live behind Blair but are zoned to Northwood

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding. Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible.

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.

Ah yes the Einstein parents who “love” their school but just want to go to BCC for the drive have arrived to the chat. Funny thing about about it is there is no chance they are going to slice off the one upper SES neighborhood that is zoned to a high farms school like Einstein and send it to a high SES school like BCC. The funnier thing is if someone could afford Woodside they could have afforded a starter home in Bethesda zoned to a better school. They chose house over school but now have to live with that. Every signal person who bought a SFH zoned for the Bethesda schools could have afforded one the nicest homes or often 2 of them in silver spring or TP but realized there are other important factors.

They just have to reassign K-P to Einstein and Woodlin to BCC. And a BCC feeder to WJ, etc. Domino effect.

Not familiar with those particularly, but I do suspect it's just tweaking some assignments at the edges to shift kids around where there is capacity. Also, I'm fine with split articulation. Sure, it's not ideal but better than overcrowding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

I'm curious to see how this pans out because mcps hasn't done a holistic boundary reassignment in decades due to parents lawyering up every time they attempt it.

Some of the boundaries are bizarre like my friends live behind Blair but are zoned to Northwood

I thought they just spent 4-5 million on one a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

I'm curious to see how this pans out because mcps hasn't done a holistic boundary reassignment in decades due to parents lawyering up every time they attempt it.

Some of the boundaries are bizarre like my friends live behind Blair but are zoned to Northwood

I thought they just spent 4-5 million on one a few years ago.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding. Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible.

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.

This is categoricAlly untrue but you post this on every thread of this topic. Stop spreading untruths. BCC was never supposed to be part of the DCC!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding. Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible.

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.

This is categoricAlly untrue but you post this on every thread of this topic. Stop spreading untruths. BCC was never supposed to be part of the DCC!

The truth is somewhere in the middle. It was included in the initial discussions of schools for the consortium, but wasn't part of the final plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would look for a school in the DCC or that feeds into BCC or that is close to Woodward (new school) and will likely feed in to that.

No NEC

What’s wrong with NEC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call MCPS central office and make someone there walk thru this with you. I am not joking. They should be able to do this and wth else are they doing there?

Awww, you’re precious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding. Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible.

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.

Ah yes the Einstein parents who “love” their school but just want to go to BCC for the drive have arrived to the chat. Funny thing about about it is there is no chance they are going to slice off the one upper SES neighborhood that is zoned to a high farms school like Einstein and send it to a high SES school like BCC. The funnier thing is if someone could afford Woodside they could have afforded a starter home in Bethesda zoned to a better school. They chose house over school but now have to live with that. Every signal person who bought a SFH zoned for the Bethesda schools could have afforded one the nicest homes or often 2 of them in silver spring or TP but realized there are other important factors.

They just have to reassign K-P to Einstein and Woodlin to BCC. And a BCC feeder to WJ, etc. Domino effect.

Enjoy your fever dream while you can but remember to enjoy sending your kids to Einstein more. But don’t forget you have school choice in the consortium, maybe your kid can go to Kennedy for their Spanish immersion program.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

I'm curious to see how this pans out because mcps hasn't done a holistic boundary reassignment in decades due to parents lawyering up every time they attempt it.

Some of the boundaries are bizarre like my friends live behind Blair but are zoned to Northwood

Blair used to by at wyane and Sligo when the boundary was drawn. Since there are no High Schools in the DCC inside the beltway all of those homes get pointed to Blair and Northwood takes care of beltway adjacent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding. Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible.

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.

This is categoricAlly untrue but you post this on every thread of this topic. Stop spreading untruths. BCC was never supposed to be part of the DCC!

Yes, it was initially.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

I'm curious to see how this pans out because mcps hasn't done a holistic boundary reassignment in decades due to parents lawyering up every time they attempt it.

Some of the boundaries are bizarre like my friends live behind Blair but are zoned to Northwood

Blair used to by at wyane and Sligo when the boundary was drawn. Since there are no High Schools in the DCC inside the beltway all of those homes get pointed to Blair and Northwood takes care of beltway adjacent.

Not exactly. The boundary was redrawn several years after Blair moved to Four Corners. Blair still has some beltway-adjacent areas, like Woodmoor and Franklin Knolls, and Northwood's boundaries still extend to some neighborhoods well south of the beltway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way. So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.

In Silver Spring?

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding. Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible.

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.

This is categoricAlly untrue but you post this on every thread of this topic. Stop spreading untruths. BCC was never supposed to be part of the DCC!

Yes, it was initially.

It was mentioned but never went far or made it to the logistics phase. The school felt it already sacrificed enough and had its quota of silver spring kids pulling down its averages.

It would have become the number one requested school by a mile in the consortium maxing out its enrollment every year and disappointing thousands. The choice in the DCC is for lesser desirable schools not more, that is how the program works in practice. If all the east county kids put it as an option and not 1 BCC kid ever selected a different school what would be the point in putting it in the pool? Look at the schools in the any of the consortiums and look at the schools not them, even a blind person can see the pattern. Now which side of the pattern is BCC on.