School Boundary Issue - How will NW elementary schools be affected?

[Anonymous]

We'll have school aged children in a couple of years and are thus looking for houses in upper NW. How will the elementary schools be affected by the possible new boundaries? Is it safe to buy west of the park and not have to worry about elementary (or middle) schools in a few years?

[Anonymous]

I think you will need to wait until September or possibly even later to know for sure. But the boundary advisory committee will release 3 scenarios for discussion starting this weekend. You can attend working groups on April 5 or 8 to give comments.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Nothing is absolute, but there's very (very) little than can (let alone should) be done about the schools in upper NW. Especially the JKLM(ann) schools; there's simply no other options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is absolute, but there's very (very) little than can (let alone should) be done about the schools in upper NW. Especially the JKLM(ann) schools; there's simply no other options.

What do you mean there's simply no other options?

[Anonymous]

Logistically, you cannot send upper NW elementary (and likely middle schoolers) elsewhere. There is no other elsewhere except across town, and that's a complete non-starter.

More fundamentally: those schools work. Everyone realizes this, even the insufferably jealous people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is absolute, but there's very (very) little than can (let alone should) be done about the schools in upper NW. Especially the JKLM(ann) schools; there's simply no other options.

What do you mean there's simply no other options?

They can and should adjust the boundaries of the overcrowded schools (Janney and Murch) to the less overcrowded ones (Hearst and Eaton).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Logistically, you cannot send upper NW elementary (and likely middle schoolers) elsewhere. There is no other elsewhere except across town, and that's a complete non-starter.

More fundamentally: those schools work. Everyone realizes this, even the insufferably jealous people.

Using the word insufferable made you sound insufferable. Just sayin'. From another NW parent.

[Anonymous]

15:11 again. Yes, but other options DO SEEM to be on the table, including moving in the direction of city-wide lotteries for high school. Doesn't mean that is what will happen, but it is naive to think it's impossible.

[Anonymous]

I second the PP who suggested waiting a bit. While the Upper NW elementary school boundaries are unlikely to see much significant change (maybe some at the margins especially perhaps to pull a bit of the existing Janney and Murch boundary into the Hearst zone) there are REAL questions out there regarding how DCPS proposes to work feeder patterns to MS and even more question about the HS process. I live within 5 blocks of Deal and Wilson and originally thought I had no reason to even *think* there could be an issue with my kids feeding to Deal/Wilson, I now feel like nothing beyond ES is very uncertain and both my husband and I are planning to attend the working groups to hear what the proposed scenarios are....

[Anonymous]

But, if you are okay with just knowing the plan through elementary, go ahead and buy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is absolute, but there's very (very) little than can (let alone should) be done about the schools in upper NW. Especially the JKLM(ann) schools; there's simply no other options.

What do you mean there's simply no other options?

They can and should adjust the boundaries of the overcrowded schools (Janney and Murch) to the less overcrowded ones (Hearst and Eaton).

I agree about Murch, which is why I didn't include it. Given that Janney's school population lives west of the school, I don't believe it's feasible to send them across Wisconsin. Southern Janney (the Sedgewick, Tindall, etc.) areas near Turtle Park could be reassigned to Mann, but that's a lateral move in terms of quality. I don't view that as unpalatable and certainly wouldn't let this remote possibility affect my inclination to buy a home in the area.

[Anonymous]

There may be changes around the edges to balance the schools, perhaps moving some homes IB for Janney or Murch to Hearst or Eaton, where the schools are less crowded, but those also are thriving schools. I also would not be surprised if they made some space this way and set aside a percentage of slots in those very successful schools for OOB that is weighted for low income to provide access to children that would benefit most from joining those successful school communities. That said, moving WOTP should be a safe move for reliably good schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Logistically, you cannot send upper NW elementary (and likely middle schoolers) elsewhere. There is no other elsewhere except across town, and that's a complete non-starter.

More fundamentally: those schools work. Everyone realizes this, even the insufferably jealous people.

Really? I wouldn't want to go to one of those schools. If I did - I would live somewhere like, Fairfax county. Where, you might as well live if you live in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Logistically, you cannot send upper NW elementary (and likely middle schoolers) elsewhere. There is no other elsewhere except across town, and that's a complete non-starter.

More fundamentally: those schools work. Everyone realizes this, even the insufferably jealous people.

Using the word insufferable made you sound insufferable. Just sayin'. From another NW parent.

Sorry if you don't like my diction, but the people who say they want to see Ward 3 "harmed just so they can experience what others have to go through" are "insufferable" at best. You're right: that's far too generous a description.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is absolute, but there's very (very) little than can (let alone should) be done about the schools in upper NW. Especially the JKLM(ann) schools; there's simply no other options.

What do you mean there's simply no other options?

They can and should adjust the boundaries of the overcrowded schools (Janney and Murch) to the less overcrowded ones (Hearst and Eaton).

I agree about Murch, which is why I didn't include it. Given that Janney's school population lives west of the school, I don't believe it's feasible to send them across Wisconsin. Southern Janney (the Sedgewick, Tindall, etc.) areas near Turtle Park could be reassigned to Mann, but that's a lateral move in terms of quality. I don't view that as unpalatable and certainly wouldn't let this remote possibility affect my inclination to buy a home in the area.

Are you serious? Not feasible to send them across Wisconsin? WTH? What does that have to do with anything.

Wisconsin has crosswalks, if you have been there on foot before.