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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Why are you so opposed to being districted to the new HS? No one is even sure of the exact boundaries yet, so I have no idea why you'd be against it.

2. The new HS is going to be in the Gaithersburg HS area, so the Dufief/Wootton/RM area will likely not be impacted. However, no one knows for sure yet.

This PP has no clue...

Neither do you. Neither does anyone.

We don't know the specifics, but we do know that a statement saying that neither the Wootton nor RM clusters will be impacted is a special brand of cluelessness. Not sure what your point was.

For Wootton, the change could be as small as moving the Washingtonian area to Crown since it's walkable (which would be almost no impact at all) or as large as a total boundary overhaul. My point is that nobody has a clue about the size or scope of the changes for RM or Wootton.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Why are you so opposed to being districted to the new HS? No one is even sure of the exact boundaries yet, so I have no idea why you'd be against it.

2. The new HS is going to be in the Gaithersburg HS area, so the Dufief/Wootton/RM area will likely not be impacted. However, no one knows for sure yet.

This PP has no clue...

Neither do you. Neither does anyone.

We don't know the specifics, but we do know that a statement saying that neither the Wootton nor RM clusters will be impacted is a special brand of cluelessness. Not sure what your point was.

For Wootton, the change could be as small as moving the Washingtonian area to Crown since it's walkable (which would be almost no impact at all) or as large as a total boundary overhaul. My point is that nobody has a clue about the size or scope of the changes for RM or Wootton.

It probably depends on who gets voted into BOE this November.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Why are you so opposed to being districted to the new HS? No one is even sure of the exact boundaries yet, so I have no idea why you'd be against it.

2. The new HS is going to be in the Gaithersburg HS area, so the Dufief/Wootton/RM area will likely not be impacted. However, no one knows for sure yet.

This PP has no clue...

Neither do you. Neither does anyone.

We don't know the specifics, but we do know that a statement saying that neither the Wootton nor RM clusters will be impacted is a special brand of cluelessness. Not sure what your point was.

For Wootton, the change could be as small as moving the Washingtonian area to Crown since it's walkable (which would be almost no impact at all) or as large as a total boundary overhaul. My point is that nobody has a clue about the size or scope of the changes for RM or Wootton.

It probably depends on who gets voted into BOE this November.

I mean maybe, I don't know. It's not like any of the candidates is likely to give a firm stance on something like this so it's impossible to tell one way or the other, don't you think?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Why are you so opposed to being districted to the new HS? No one is even sure of the exact boundaries yet, so I have no idea why you'd be against it.

2. The new HS is going to be in the Gaithersburg HS area, so the Dufief/Wootton/RM area will likely not be impacted. However, no one knows for sure yet.

This PP has no clue...

Neither do you. Neither does anyone.

We don't know the specifics, but we do know that a statement saying that neither the Wootton nor RM clusters will be impacted is a special brand of cluelessness. Not sure what your point was.

For Wootton, the change could be as small as moving the Washingtonian area to Crown since it's walkable (which would be almost no impact at all) or as large as a total boundary overhaul. My point is that nobody has a clue about the size or scope of the changes for RM or Wootton.

It probably depends on who gets voted into BOE this November.

It will probably depend more on who is hired as the new superintendent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know that Duffief and Stone Mill are mentioned as one of possible ES. Stone Mill is actually “closer” to Crown and is the only ES from the Wootton cluster that goes to Cabin John (vs Frost). Wouldn’t Stone Mill be more “at risk”?

Stone Mill is a massive ES and is smack in the middle of the Wootton boundary, closer to the school than DuFief. If you removed it you would be left with an even weirder boundary consisting of two large, disconnected islands feeding into Wootton.

Combined with Crown walkers that are currently zoned to fallsmead, you would also be removing a huge portion of Wootton’s current student body. It’s not overcrowded and its enrollment is dropping.

Moving Crown walkers to Crown and leaving everyone else in Wootton is a simpler change gives everyone what they want. People love to be doomsayers but I’m optimistic MCPS will take the easy win here.

[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.

LOL no doesn’t work like that

You can not be this stupid

[Anonymous]

Stonemill won’t be moved

Duffel possibly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know that Duffief and Stone Mill are mentioned as one of possible ES. Stone Mill is actually “closer” to Crown and is the only ES from the Wootton cluster that goes to Cabin John (vs Frost). Wouldn’t Stone Mill be more “at risk”?

Stone Mill is a massive ES and is smack in the middle of the Wootton boundary, closer to the school than DuFief. If you removed it you would be left with an even weirder boundary consisting of two large, disconnected islands feeding into Wootton.

Combined with Crown walkers that are currently zoned to fallsmead, you would also be removing a huge portion of Wootton’s current student body. It’s not overcrowded and its enrollment is dropping.

Moving Crown walkers to Crown and leaving everyone else in Wootton is a simpler change gives everyone what they want. People love to be doomsayers but I’m optimistic MCPS will take the easy win here.

If they only move the Fallsmead island near Crown to Crown, they would need to decide whether to keep that island feeding to Frost, which would make Frost split-articulated to Wootton and Crown, or have that island go to whichever MS will mainly feed to Crown, which would make Fallsmead split-articulated between Frost and that MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know that Duffief and Stone Mill are mentioned as one of possible ES. Stone Mill is actually “closer” to Crown and is the only ES from the Wootton cluster that goes to Cabin John (vs Frost). Wouldn’t Stone Mill be more “at risk”?

Stone Mill is a massive ES and is smack in the middle of the Wootton boundary, closer to the school than DuFief. If you removed it you would be left with an even weirder boundary consisting of two large, disconnected islands feeding into Wootton.

Combined with Crown walkers that are currently zoned to fallsmead, you would also be removing a huge portion of Wootton’s current student body. It’s not overcrowded and its enrollment is dropping.

Moving Crown walkers to Crown and leaving everyone else in Wootton is a simpler change gives everyone what they want. People love to be doomsayers but I’m optimistic MCPS will take the easy win here.

If they only move the Fallsmead island near Crown to Crown, they would need to decide whether to keep that island feeding to Frost, which would make Frost split-articulated to Wootton and Crown, or have that island go to whichever MS will mainly feed to Crown, which would make Fallsmead split-articulated between Frost and that MS.

Yeah. Between Frost, Hoover, and Cabin John, nearby middle schools are such a mess. Middle schools in the area are just not well placed. You could shift those kids out of Frost but then Frost will be under enrolled. I don't think anyone would complain about the idea of keeping the Fallsmead island going to Frost and fixing it if they build a new middle school near Crown someday, but there are many other more pressing capital projects that need to be done first.

[Anonymous]

Crown will need to alleviate overcrowding at nearby high schools so pretty much any overcrowded HS sharing a boundary will send kids to Crown. Wootton is overcrowded so that number of students will likely go to crown and the boundary study will look to get that number. Same as RM. There is a budget shortfall so expanding RM or Wootton to accommodate the excess students will not be on the table. Gaithersburg, RM, QO, NW, Wootton all are overcapacity and projected to keep growing. My guess since NW is over capacity and growing quickly is that kids who would have gone to NW may go to QO and more kids from QO will go to Crown. Fields Road ES now feeds QO but is much much closer to Crown so the whole of Fields Road could change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crown will need to alleviate overcrowding at nearby high schools so pretty much any overcrowded HS sharing a boundary will send kids to Crown. Wootton is overcrowded so that number of students will likely go to crown and the boundary study will look to get that number. Same as RM. There is a budget shortfall so expanding RM or Wootton to accommodate the excess students will not be on the table. Gaithersburg, RM, QO, NW, Wootton all are overcapacity and projected to keep growing. My guess since NW is over capacity and growing quickly is that kids who would have gone to NW may go to QO and more kids from QO will go to Crown. Fields Road ES now feeds QO but is much much closer to Crown so the whole of Fields Road could change.

Wootton is not currently over capacity, and it is projected to remain under capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crown will need to alleviate overcrowding at nearby high schools so pretty much any overcrowded HS sharing a boundary will send kids to Crown. Wootton is overcrowded so that number of students will likely go to crown and the boundary study will look to get that number. Same as RM. There is a budget shortfall so expanding RM or Wootton to accommodate the excess students will not be on the table. Gaithersburg, RM, QO, NW, Wootton all are overcapacity and projected to keep growing. My guess since NW is over capacity and growing quickly is that kids who would have gone to NW may go to QO and more kids from QO will go to Crown. Fields Road ES now feeds QO but is much much closer to Crown so the whole of Fields Road could change.

Wootton's current utilization is 1883 for 2023-2024 while it has a capacity of 2120, so I don't know what you are talking about. In the coming years, MCPS projects it will grow in utilization, but does not currently project it will be over capacity by 2029 (which is as far as they are currently projecting).

But if you look at their future projections from previous years and compare them to what actually happened, every year they have been projecting an increase in utilization, when it reality there has been a decrease.

And all this time, home prices are steadily increasing and more and more people are priced out. This has been brewing for years, and it will take time for the effects to be fully felt. As students graduate, I am very skeptical that there are going to be enough new students replacing them to meet MCPS' projections.

[Anonymous]

Will home values around Crown and Decoverly increase after completion? I wonder

[Anonymous]

Mcps try to reduce transportation cost or shorten bus transportation time. I have been wondering which ES/MS will be pulled from to the new Crown HS. How many kids can new Crown HS take? I have many asian friends with kids attending stonefield ES now, and they will be really pissed if they will zone to new Crown HS. To them, wotton HS is the main reason that they bought the home at the firat place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mcps try to reduce transportation cost or shorten bus transportation time. I have been wondering which ES/MS will be pulled from to the new Crown HS. How many kids can new Crown HS take? I have many asian friends with kids attending stonefield ES now, and they will be really pissed if they will zone to new Crown HS. To them, wotton HS is the main reason that they bought the home at the firat place.

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