ASFS at 80% capacity?

[Anonymous]

Discovery lost 110 kids, likely to private given the income average in the neighborhood. The strange thing is discovery is also saying 21% of the school is new families, where the heck did they come from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Discovery lost 110 kids, likely to private given the income average in the neighborhood. The strange thing is discovery is also saying 21% of the school is new families, where the heck did they come from?

K is ~17% of the school. Maybe more if people redshirted last year.

We also know a ton of people who moved over the last 6 months. Either within Arlington or out of the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we know it's 80%?

And is it 80% of the building capacity?

Or 80% of the 2019-20 school numbers (which was significantly overcapacity)?

Interesting that they still have 3rd grade in relocatables.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is down to only 3 classes at every grade level. 2 years ago they had 4 classes at every grade level.

Same at Nottingham. They shouldn’t have built discovery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is down to only 3 classes at every grade level. 2 years ago they had 4 classes at every grade level.

Same at Nottingham. They shouldn’t have built discovery.

And Tuckahoe only lost 1 PU to Cardinal (Reed) because APS pussed out and caved to the McKinley parents. And the people in that PU had the option to stay at Tuckahoe. I know of at least 2 families in that PU that are staying at Tuckahoe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is down to only 3 classes at every grade level. 2 years ago they had 4 classes at every grade level.

Same at Nottingham. They shouldn’t have built discovery.

And Tuckahoe only lost 1 PU to Cardinal (Reed) because APS pussed out and caved to the McKinley parents. And the people in that PU had the option to stay at Tuckahoe. I know of at least 2 families in that PU that are staying at Tuckahoe.

Correction, i know of at least 4 families staying at Tuckahoe. We lost a ton of students to private and our numbers are still down significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we know it's 80%?

And is it 80% of the building capacity?

Or 80% of the 2019-20 school numbers (which was significantly overcapacity)?

Interesting that they still have 3rd grade in relocatables.

Yea I thought so too. The principal said that there are around 450 kids enrolled at asfs as of right now. They might get some last minute enrollments though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Discovery lost 110 kids, likely to private given the income average in the neighborhood. The strange thing is discovery is also saying 21% of the school is new families, where the heck did they come from?

K is ~17% of the school. Maybe more if people redshirted last year.

We also know a ton of people who moved over the last 6 months. Either within Arlington or out of the area.

17% would be assuming they’re all entirely new families with no older siblings in the school, would be quite unusual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like overall l, APS is down a couple thousand. Guessing many bailed for private schools or just said, enough, and moved.

Market was to hot or we would’ve been out form ASFS with everybody else. This was a stupid time to press with boundary changes. The Covid plans are dumb. I was supportive of both Duran and the board. Now I want him fired and the board recalled. Go live of the white lotus money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like overall l, APS is down a couple thousand. Guessing many bailed for private schools or just said, enough, and moved.

Market was to hot or we would’ve been out form ASFS with everybody else. This was a stupid time to press with boundary changes. The Covid plans are dumb. I was supportive of both Duran and the board. Now I want him fired and the board recalled. Go live of the white lotus money.

Too and from-my bad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we know it's 80%?

And is it 80% of the building capacity?

Or 80% of the 2019-20 school numbers (which was significantly overcapacity)?

Interesting that they still have 3rd grade in relocatables.

They are paid for and Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like overall l, APS is down a couple thousand. Guessing many bailed for private schools or just said, enough, and moved.

Market was to hot or we would’ve been out form ASFS with everybody else. This was a stupid time to press with boundary changes. The Covid plans are dumb. I was supportive of both Duran and the board. Now I want him fired and the board recalled. Go live of the white lotus money.

Cardinal was built, logistics have been in the works for ages to move schools. It isn't just about moving kids around, there is the larger infrastructure of facilities, staff, etc. I can't find it now, but someone posted to AEM earlier this month the current enrollment data for each school and I think almost every single school is down, some more than others. In the short term the good news is it will make it easier to spread the kids out and social distance. Long term is it potentially bad news for APS, yes. We chose to stay public this year, and the fewer kids in the building the better this year in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like overall l, APS is down a couple thousand. Guessing many bailed for private schools or just said, enough, and moved.

Market was to hot or we would’ve been out form ASFS with everybody else. This was a stupid time to press with boundary changes. The Covid plans are dumb. I was supportive of both Duran and the board. Now I want him fired and the board recalled. Go live of the white lotus money.

Too and from-my bad

And the teachers like the independence out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like overall l, APS is down a couple thousand. Guessing many bailed for private schools or just said, enough, and moved.

Market was to hot or we would’ve been out form ASFS with everybody else. This was a stupid time to press with boundary changes. The Covid plans are dumb. I was supportive of both Duran and the board. Now I want him fired and the board recalled. Go live of the white lotus money.

And let a brand new school (Reed) sit empty?

Are you drunk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like overall l, APS is down a couple thousand. Guessing many bailed for private schools or just said, enough, and moved.

Market was to hot or we would’ve been out form ASFS with everybody else. This was a stupid time to press with boundary changes. The Covid plans are dumb. I was supportive of both Duran and the board. Now I want him fired and the board recalled. Go live of the white lotus money.

Cardinal was built, logistics have been in the works for ages to move schools. It isn't just about moving kids around, there is the larger infrastructure of facilities, staff, etc. I can't find it now, but someone posted to AEM earlier this month the current enrollment data for each school and I think almost every single school is down, some more than others. In the short term the good news is it will make it easier to spread the kids out and social distance. Long term is it potentially bad news for APS, yes. We chose to stay public this year, and the fewer kids in the building the better this year in my opinion.

So if schools have less students, and we have more physical students, why do we have 30 student classes?