Boundary study (2025 )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Construction costs will sky rocket due to the tariffs.

Which might mean project delays OR cancellations. And then what????

Good thing last month the County Council didn't override the County Executive's veto of a bill to delay impact tax collection that funds school construction...and follow that up today by passing a potentially massive tax abatement for commercial properties converting to residential.

Oh...wait...

[Anonymous]

Geographically, it makes more sense to send Ritchie Park back to Wootton. It would be dumb to bus kids who live near RP all the way up to Crown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the survey results aren't going to be very reliable.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/08/can-the-mcps-online-boundary-survey-be-gamed/

The post was updated with MCPS's response:
“While the vendor hasn’t restricted survey submissions by IP address, they implemented a flag to identify multiple responses originating from the same device. Additionally, the data can be sorted by IP address to review the number of submissions from each. This allows for the identification and flagging of any suspicious patterns, such as identical responses from multiple submissions, to review and potentially remove. This setup accommodates the district’s consideration of using shared iPads at in-person meetings for survey participation.”

LOL
Suspicious pattern? Like parents in one house completing survey?

I'd say more than a few responses from one IP address could be suspicious, yes.

Then the survey is crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geographically, it makes more sense to send Ritchie Park back to Wootton. It would be dumb to bus kids who live near RP all the way up to Crown.

they won't move RP to crown. But FG will go to Crown.

All the HS will look differently (demographically speaking) after the boundary changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geographically, it makes more sense to send Ritchie Park back to Wootton. It would be dumb to bus kids who live near RP all the way up to Crown.

they won't move RP to crown. But FG will go to Crown.

All the HS will look differently (demographically speaking) after the boundary changes.

Meaning split-articulate RP between Crown and RM. Could happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geographically, it makes more sense to send Ritchie Park back to Wootton. It would be dumb to bus kids who live near RP all the way up to Crown.

they won't move RP to crown. But FG will go to Crown.

All the HS will look differently (demographically speaking) after the boundary changes.

Meaning split-articulate RP between Crown and RM. Could happen.

Except they’ve said that elementary boundaries won’t change. Are there other county elementary schools with boundaries like Ritchie Park? I don’t understand why Fallsgrove is even in there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this information needs to be communicated more effectively:

If you live in the following clusters, the Woodward study may affect you:
Bethesda Chevy-Chase
Montgomery Blair
Albert Einstein
Walter Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Northwood
Wheaton
Walt Whitman

If you live in the following clusters, the Crown/Damascus study may affect you:
Winston Churchill
Clarksburg
Damascus
Gaithersburg
Richard Montgomery
Northwest
Poolesville
Quince Orchard
Seneca Valley
Watkins Mill
Thomas S. Wootton

I live in the Churchill cluster and I am not worried. My location is very tucked into an area that wouldn't make sense to bus kids. No where near the border for any of the other clusters, except perhaps Whitman. Plus my kid will graduate next year and the only thing I might worry about is home value and like I said, a move to Whitman won't hurt us. No way will they bus to Rockville, WJ, or RM.

Churchill and Whitman are in different boundary studies, so it seems that they won't be moving kids across that particular boundary.

I've not been very engaged in this, but a map of the study areas showed up in my facebook feed and it was way easier to understand than just a list. Different schools are being considered in the two different boundary studies, so this puts a limit on which schools' students may be moved to a different HS cluster. (You can identify it above, but it's so much easier if you look at the map.) So for instance, Churchill kids could be moved to Wootton or RM but not to WJ or Whitman (and vice versa).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geographically, it makes more sense to send Ritchie Park back to Wootton. It would be dumb to bus kids who live near RP all the way up to Crown.

they won't move RP to crown. But FG will go to Crown.

All the HS will look differently (demographically speaking) after the boundary changes.

Meaning split-articulate RP between Crown and RM. Could happen.

Except they’ve said that elementary boundaries won’t change. Are there other county elementary schools with boundaries like Ritchie Park? I don’t understand why Fallsgrove is even in there.

I think they mean that no one will move ES. So, FG will still go to RP.

But, after JWMS, FG would go to Crown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geographically, it makes more sense to send Ritchie Park back to Wootton. It would be dumb to bus kids who live near RP all the way up to Crown.

they won't move RP to crown. But FG will go to Crown.

All the HS will look differently (demographically speaking) after the boundary changes.

Meaning split-articulate RP between Crown and RM. Could happen.

Except they’ve said that elementary boundaries won’t change. Are there other county elementary schools with boundaries like Ritchie Park? I don’t understand why Fallsgrove is even in there.

ES boundaries don't have to change, and there can still be new split articulations created. Yes, there are many ES boundaries with disconnected islands such as Fallsgrove.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geographically, it makes more sense to send Ritchie Park back to Wootton. It would be dumb to bus kids who live near RP all the way up to Crown.

they won't move RP to crown. But FG will go to Crown.

All the HS will look differently (demographically speaking) after the boundary changes.

Meaning split-articulate RP between Crown and RM. Could happen.

Except they’ve said that elementary boundaries won’t change. Are there other county elementary schools with boundaries like Ritchie Park? I don’t understand why Fallsgrove is even in there.

ES boundaries don't have to change, and there can still be new split articulations created. Yes,there are many ES boundaries with disconnected islands such as Fallsgrove.

Including several more with islands in Crown's vicinity, like Fallsmead, Rosemont, Stone Mill, Diamond, and Jones Lane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this information needs to be communicated more effectively:

If you live in the following clusters, the Woodward study may affect you:
Bethesda Chevy-Chase
Montgomery Blair
Albert Einstein
Walter Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Northwood
Wheaton
Walt Whitman

If you live in the following clusters, the Crown/Damascus study may affect you:
Winston Churchill
Clarksburg
Damascus
Gaithersburg
Richard Montgomery
Northwest
Poolesville
Quince Orchard
Seneca Valley
Watkins Mill
Thomas S. Wootton

I live in the Churchill cluster and I am not worried. My location is very tucked into an area that wouldn't make sense to bus kids. No where near the border for any of the other clusters, except perhaps Whitman. Plus my kid will graduate next year and the only thing I might worry about is home value and like I said, a move to Whitman won't hurt us. No way will they bus to Rockville, WJ, or RM.

Churchill and Whitman are in different boundary studies, so it seems that they won't be moving kids across that particular boundary.

I've not been very engaged in this, but a map of the study areas showed up in my facebook feed and it was way easier to understand than just a list. Different schools are being considered in the two different boundary studies, so this puts a limit on which schools' students may be moved to a different HS cluster. (You can identify it above, but it's so much easier if you look at the map.) So for instance, Churchill kids could be moved to Wootton or RM but not to WJ or Whitman (and vice versa).

The maps are available here:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/boundary-study/

[Anonymous]

What do you think about Lakewood es? It’s so close to wootton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you think about Lakewood es? It’s so close to wootton

If they currently walk to Wootton, they're almost certain to remain there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this information needs to be communicated more effectively:

If you live in the following clusters, the Woodward study may affect you:
Bethesda Chevy-Chase
Montgomery Blair
Albert Einstein
Walter Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Northwood
Wheaton
Walt Whitman

If you live in the following clusters, the Crown/Damascus study may affect you:
Winston Churchill
Clarksburg
Damascus
Gaithersburg
Richard Montgomery
Northwest
Poolesville
Quince Orchard
Seneca Valley
Watkins Mill
Thomas S. Wootton

I live in the Churchill cluster and I am not worried. My location is very tucked into an area that wouldn't make sense to bus kids. No where near the border for any of the other clusters, except perhaps Whitman. Plus my kid will graduate next year and the only thing I might worry about is home value and like I said, a move to Whitman won't hurt us. No way will they bus to Rockville, WJ, or RM.

Churchill and Whitman are in different boundary studies, so it seems that they won't be moving kids across that particular boundary.

I've not been very engaged in this, but a map of the study areas showed up in my facebook feed and it was way easier to understand than just a list. Different schools are being considered in the two different boundary studies, so this puts a limit on which schools' students may be moved to a different HS cluster. (You can identify it above, but it's so much easier if you look at the map.) So for instance, Churchill kids could be moved to Wootton or RM but not to WJ or Whitman (and vice versa).

Which is exactly why I am quite certain they won't touch our neighborhood. We are close to the Whitman boundary. They would go after neighborhoods closer to Wootton and RM before they cross over to our area. I think we are quite safe.

[Anonymous]

I'm bummed to see (1) they dont include minimizing split articulation as a priority people can select, and (2) they didn't bother to randomize the order of the priorities to be ranked on the last page, which will bias responses to the order in which they are listed (due to early submission errors)