School Boundary Change-Woodward HS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“With the high FARMS and the art magnet, it will be an okay school—but not as desirable as WJ is today. We live in Old Farm, so our youngest will be able to finish at WJ, but knowing what we know now, we wouldn’t buy in this neighborhood given the Woodward change.”

Question for people who live in Old Farm: WHY wouldn’t you buy in this neighborhood knowing what you know? WHAT do you know? What are the facts? What is the gossip?

I honestly thought that MCPS will not ceoncentrate poverty in one school when both are right next to each other. I always assumed that Woodward and WJ will take one high FARMS ES each, but that's not the case.

Our kids are done with the school, but I also wouldn't have bought here knowing the current situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do think it is time to take off the rose colored glasses. They could have made Woodward just like WJ but they decided to favor WJ. It’s unfortunate.

As WJ parents we knew this was coming for a long time. We thought creating 2 balanced schools and having Woodward mirror WJ was a given and were happy about it. Our kids will graduate WJ before Woodward opens but for the first time we are concerned about how this will affect our resale. We ate disappointed with this outcome.

I’m confused as to how you thought Woodward and WJ were going to mirror each other. It has been known since well before the boundary study that Woodward would be used to relieve not just WJ crowding but crowding in the DCC. You just couldn’t believe that they would actually follow through with that and would simply just create another “W”, crowding in the DCC be damned?

Boundary study was there to balance capacity and demographyt both. Not just create Whitman 2.0.

You lost the plot with your thinking. NO one is saying DCC crowding be dammed. Folks were expecting not putting 2 high FARMS ES in Woodward. It would have been far better to put one in WJ and one in Woodward. It won't cause any issue in travel as well due to both being right next to each other on the same road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in old farm and my kids are grown. I don’t feel a compelling need to move at the moment, but when we do downsize, I expect to get less for my house than I would have expected a week ago. On the other hand, my house is currently worth triple what we paid for it so it’s hard to be upset about the appreciation being less. I expect the new Woodward high school to be comparable in reputation to something like quince orchard which is a fine school, but not as good as WJ was.

Yes, It would be my expectation as well when we sell.

[Anonymous]

It's a very bad outcome.

[Anonymous]

Einstetin and QO are fine school. I recon Woodward will be like that. A big step down from WJ.

[Anonymous]

I feel like this thread is a lot of doomposting. How bad can Woodward be? The high farms ES that feed there aren’t even that bad — correct me if I’m wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this thread is a lot of doomposting. How bad can Woodward be? The high farms ES that feed there aren’t even that bad — correct me if I’m wrong.

Realistically, you can look at 35% FARMS HS level and get a good idea. Given it will be a new school without any brand name and no STEM focus, I suspect posters are right.

[Anonymous]

Will the impact of being located in WJ verses Woodward district be comparable to the impact of house prices located in the Wootton HS verses located in the Richard Montgomery HS district?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this thread is a lot of doomposting. How bad can Woodward be? The high farms ES that feed there aren’t even that bad — correct me if I’m wrong.

Realistically, you can look at 35% FARMS HS level and get a good idea. Given it will be a new school without any brand name and no STEM focus, I suspect posters are right.

You don't know what classes it will offer. It can be another W school and offer a huge range of stem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this thread is a lot of doomposting. How bad can Woodward be? The high farms ES that feed there aren’t even that bad — correct me if I’m wrong.

Realistically, you can look at 35% FARMS HS level and get a good idea. Given it will be a new school without any brand name and no STEM focus, I suspect posters are right.

You don't know what classes it will offer. It can be another W school and offer a huge range of stem.

Take a look at classes offered in 35-40% FARMS school. No need to speculate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will the impact of being located in WJ verses Woodward district be comparable to the impact of house prices located in the Wootton HS verses located in the Richard Montgomery HS district?

I suspect it will be worse due to difference in FARMS being higher in case of WJ and Woodward comapred to Wootton and RM going formaward. Another point - RM will continue hosting IB magnet program. It will be diluted but still strong. Woodward is getting Art, drama, music, Media etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will the impact of being located in WJ verses Woodward district be comparable to the impact of house prices located in the Wootton HS verses located in the Richard Montgomery HS district?

Going forward,

WJ - 15% FARMs
Woodward - 35% FARMS
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FARMS difference 20%


Crown/Wooton - 19% FARMS
RM - 31% FARMS
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FARMS difference 12%

RM is also going to host strong IB magnet program. Woodward is hosting program like what Einstein hosted.

You can make your own guess from this.

[Anonymous]

Can someone post a map of what the WJ/Woodward boundaries would have looked like if the goal was similar FARMS rates? Just looking at the map that leaves Woodward at 35% FARMS those boundaries do not look unreasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone post a map of what the WJ/Woodward boundaries would have looked like if the goal was similar FARMS rates? Just looking at the map that leaves Woodward at 35% FARMS those boundaries do not look unreasonable.

VM, KP, GP all three will need bus to go to either Woodwqard or WJ. In both cases travel time will be similar due to both school being so close.

Swapping areas is a great option without any negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone post a map of what the WJ/Woodward boundaries would have looked like if the goal was similar FARMS rates? Just looking at the map that leaves Woodward at 35% FARMS those boundaries do not look unreasonable.

VM, KP, GP all three will need bus to go to either Woodwqard or WJ. In both cases travel time will be similar due to both school being so close.

Swapping areas is a great option without any negative.

Map, please.