How will Wootton or RM be affected by new high school in Crown Farm?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all are dumb. I wouldn’t want my kids to be in the new high school over wootton. The new high school is meant to be built to relieve gaithersburg if it’s overcrowding, meaning some portion of that will be going to the high school. Additionally, a part of QO will most likely go as well since it is overcrowded, and the area that is near crown is the bad part of QO(Fields Road ES) and the FARMS population of the school goes there. If that and part of Gaithersburg goes there that nice high school would be something like Northwest or Magruder. Either Dufief, Stone Mill, or another high achieving school will most likely end up there as well to balance FARMS rates with QO, Wootton, and RM.

excuse me?

Well I mean it is the worst school that feeds into Ridgeview MS... but PP never said it was a bad school, just that it isn't as good as the others in the cluster. But yes, Brown Station is WAY worse than Fields Road so I would't call Fields Road the bad school in QO. Washingtonian Woods is actually a nice neighborhood that goes to Fields Road, but other than that it isn't a very nice area.

Not trying go off topic, but I'm curious.. what makes Brown a bad school in the cluster?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all are dumb. I wouldn’t want my kids to be in the new high school over wootton. The new high school is meant to be built to relieve gaithersburg if it’s overcrowding, meaning some portion of that will be going to the high school. Additionally, a part of QO will most likely go as well since it is overcrowded, and the area that is near crown is the bad part of QO(Fields Road ES) and the FARMS population of the school goes there. If that and part of Gaithersburg goes there that nice high school would be something like Northwest or Magruder. Either Dufief, Stone Mill, or another high achieving school will most likely end up there as well to balance FARMS rates with QO, Wootton, and RM.

excuse me?

Well I mean it is the worst school that feeds into Ridgeview MS... but PP never said it was a bad school, just that it isn't as good as the others in the cluster. But yes, Brown Station is WAY worse than Fields Road so I would't call Fields Road the bad school in QO. Washingtonian Woods is actually a nice neighborhood that goes to Fields Road, but other than that it isn't a very nice area.

Not trying go off topic, but I'm curious.. what makes Brown a bad school in the cluster?

PP, the definition of "bad school" on DCUM is "lots of kids who are poor and/or black and/or Hispanic". And Brown Station ES meets that definition. Fields Road ES has a lower percentage of kids who are poor and/or black and/or Hispanic than Brown Station ES, therefore Fields Road ES is a less bad school than Brown Station ES, according to the DCUM definition.

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Say RM looses Kings Farm and Falls Grove..it will not be the same school anymore.. I assume the same is true for the others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sending Laytonsville kids to Sherwood or Damacus would help Gaithersburg cluster too, but the board doesn’t want to hear that option.

Sending Laytonsville kids to Sherwood or Damascus would help the Gaithersburg cluster how?

What the Board did hear, and specifically considered, was sending Unity kids to Sherwood. What's more, that's what they decided to do. They reassigned the area from Gaithersburg (Laytonsville ES/Gaithersburg MS/Gaithersburg HS) to Sherwood (Greenwood ES/Rosa Parks MS/Sherwood HS): http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/planning/UnityBoundaryStudyADOPTED5.3.17.pdf

Unity kids make up a handful of families. I'm well aware of the Unity study. Moving the entire elementary school to a different cluster lowers the number of kids at GHS.

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Anonymous wrote:Sending Laytonsville kids to Sherwood or Damacus would help Gaithersburg cluster too, but the board doesn’t want to hear that option.

Sending Laytonsville kids to Sherwood or Damascus would help the Gaithersburg cluster how?

What the Board did hear, and specifically considered, was sending Unity kids to Sherwood. What's more, that's what they decided to do. They reassigned the area from Gaithersburg (Laytonsville ES/Gaithersburg MS/Gaithersburg HS) to Sherwood (Greenwood ES/Rosa Parks MS/Sherwood HS): http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/planning/UnityBoundaryStudyADOPTED5.3.17.pdf

Unity kids make up a handful of families. I'm well aware of the Unity study. Moving the entire elementary school to a different cluster lowers the number of kids at GHS.

With all respect for the families of kids zoned for Laytonsville ES, I don't think that people who support rezoning Laytonsville ES to the Damascus or Sherwood clusters do so out of deep concern for the kids at Gaithersburg HS who are at an over-capacity school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sending Laytonsville kids to Sherwood or Damacus would help Gaithersburg cluster too, but the board doesn’t want to hear that option.

Sending Laytonsville kids to Sherwood or Damascus would help the Gaithersburg cluster how?

What the Board did hear, and specifically considered, was sending Unity kids to Sherwood. What's more, that's what they decided to do. They reassigned the area from Gaithersburg (Laytonsville ES/Gaithersburg MS/Gaithersburg HS) to Sherwood (Greenwood ES/Rosa Parks MS/Sherwood HS): http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/planning/UnityBoundaryStudyADOPTED5.3.17.pdf

Unity kids make up a handful of families. I'm well aware of the Unity study. Moving the entire elementary school to a different cluster lowers the number of kids at GHS.

With all respect for the families of kids zoned for Laytonsville ES, I don't think that people who support rezoning Laytonsville ES to the Damascus or Sherwood clusters do so out of deep concern for the kids at Gaithersburg HS who are at an over-capacity school.

No, it's also the hour long bus ride.
- parent of two GHS students

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Anonymous wrote:Say RM looses Kings Farm and Falls Grove..it will not be the same school anymore.. I assume the same is true for the others.

+1 We are in the RM cluster. MCPS will try to balance out the FARMs at the new school as well as in the other clusters.

[Anonymous]

You can also check with the HOA for the neighborhood you're looking at. We're in a neighborhood where the HOA negotiated something with the county years ago that guaranteed it would not be impacted by redistricting.

[Anonymous]

Given that they delayed it for a year, and the earliest it will be completed is 2024, and NO DECISIONS will be made on boundary studies until about 10 months before it opens (discussions can start 18 months before it opens), it is definitely something you should worry about now.

And telling everyone you know how it will be decided is 100% BS - No one, not even MCPS staff, knows what will be happening that far out.

This is as entertaining as the Woodward discussion. But ya'll have a lot of catching up to do, as that discussion is over 40 pages of nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can also check with the HOA for the neighborhood you're looking at. We're in a neighborhood where the HOA negotiated something with the county years ago that guaranteed it would not be impacted by redistricting.

Have you actually seen a copy of this agreement? I'd try to track it down in writing, if I were you. And then perhaps consult the HOA's lawyer about it, as well.

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Anonymous wrote:You can also check with the HOA for the neighborhood you're looking at. We're in a neighborhood where the HOA negotiated something with the county years ago that guaranteed it would not be impacted by redistricting.

Have you actually seen a copy of this agreement? I'd try to track it down in writing, if I were you. And then perhaps consult the HOA's lawyer about it, as well.

Seems so unlikely MCPS would agree to that..so many communities would want it. Are you sure it was forever? I could envision an agreement that it would not change during the initial build phase but not forever.. I am not sure I would even want that type of agreement in my community. Over time the schools change..they might prefer something else eventually.

[Anonymous]

As others have said, nobody knows because the BOE hasn't debated what to do yet. As we've seen with some of the recent deliberations, these things can be very fluid.

That said, assuming they make it it's own cluster (as opposed to some sort of consortium school), it would seem to me that they aren't going to want to split up ES zones. So for example, though Fallsgrove is the closest part of RM to the new school, I doubt they will move unless all of Ritchie Park moves, and most of RP is actually pretty far away. In addition, I think they'll want Crown and the slice of Rio that are nearby the new HS to go.

As a result, my guess today would be they send (i) College Gardens (which is all pretty accessible to the new HS via 28) from RM (as opposed to RP, which is further away except for the Fallsgrove portion of RP), (ii) Fallsmead from Wootton (which has the Rio slice; the rest is also pretty accessible to the new HS via 28), (iii) Rosemont from GB (which has Crown) and Fields Road from QO (which is close geographically). I think this would have pretty balanced demographics and not disrupt the demographics much at the existing schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As others have said, nobody knows because the BOE hasn't debated what to do yet. As we've seen with some of the recent deliberations, these things can be very fluid.

That said, assuming they make it it's own cluster (as opposed to some sort of consortium school), it would seem to me that they aren't going to want to split up ES zones. So for example, though Fallsgrove is the closest part of RM to the new school, I doubt they will move unless all of Ritchie Park moves, and most of RP is actually pretty far away. In addition, I think they'll want Crown and the slice of Rio that are nearby the new HS to go.

As a result, my guess today would be they send (i) College Gardens (which is all pretty accessible to the new HS via 28) from RM (as opposed to RP, which is further away except for the Fallsgrove portion of RP), (ii) Fallsmead from Wootton (which has the Rio slice; the rest is also pretty accessible to the new HS via 28), (iii) Rosemont from GB (which has Crown) and Fields Road from QO (which is close geographically). I think this would have pretty balanced demographics and not disrupt the demographics much at the existing schools.

That would make sense except for Fallsmead. It would make more sense for Stone Mill to go rather than Fallsmead.

Where exactly are they proposing to build Crown HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As others have said, nobody knows because the BOE hasn't debated what to do yet. As we've seen with some of the recent deliberations, these things can be very fluid.

That said, assuming they make it it's own cluster (as opposed to some sort of consortium school), it would seem to me that they aren't going to want to split up ES zones. So for example, though Fallsgrove is the closest part of RM to the new school, I doubt they will move unless all of Ritchie Park moves, and most of RP is actually pretty far away. In addition, I think they'll want Crown and the slice of Rio that are nearby the new HS to go.

As a result, my guess today would be they send (i) College Gardens (which is all pretty accessible to the new HS via 28) from RM (as opposed to RP, which is further away except for the Fallsgrove portion of RP), (ii) Fallsmead from Wootton (which has the Rio slice; the rest is also pretty accessible to the new HS via 28), (iii) Rosemont from GB (which has Crown) and Fields Road from QO (which is close geographically). I think this would have pretty balanced demographics and not disrupt the demographics much at the existing schools.

Does anyone have a link to a map with all the school boundaries laid out? Google is failing me.

[Anonymous]

College Gardens...to Crown?? Derwood is no where near 28? I could see moving it to Gaithersburg but not Crown.