Boundary study (2025 )

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Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

How is it different than the kids walking north to Wheaton HS?

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward is essentially finished and they had to start building Crown to get the land. So that ship has sailed.

Does Woodard have an auditorium and all of the necessary outdoor athletic spaces?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

How is it different than the kids walking north to Wheaton HS?

Maybe there is no difference. The Connecticut Ave/University convergence strikes me as particularly treacherous. Walkers need to navigate a narrow walkway to cross train tracks. Would you send your freshman in the dark when its icy out to navigate the sidewalk and two major thoroughfares during rush hour? Maybe this is why this portion of Kensington goes to Walter Johnson. I don't know and don't have a dog in the fight. Just pointing out that this might be why, in some cases, the closest school isn't the best option because of traffic patterns.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward is essentially finished and they had to start building Crown to get the land. So that ship has sailed.

Does Woodard have an auditorium and all of the necessary outdoor athletic spaces?

Not yet, but it will as part of phase 2.

https://www.hessconstructionwoodwardhs.com/progress-photos/april-2025

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Anonymous wrote:Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

How is it different than the kids walking north to Wheaton HS?

Maybe there is no difference. The Connecticut Ave/University convergence strikes me as particularly treacherous. Walkers need to navigate a narrow walkway to cross train tracks. Would you send your freshman in the dark when its icy out to navigate the sidewalk and two major thoroughfares during rush hour? Maybe this is why this portion of Kensington goes to Walter Johnson. I don't know and don't have a dog in the fight. Just pointing out that this might be why, in some cases, the closest school isn't the best option because of traffic patterns.

If it's too dangerous then MCPS could provide a bus to Einstein, and it would still be a shorter ride than to WJ.

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Anonymous wrote:For Woodward: Kensington should be split between Einstein and B-CC. Absolutely no reason to be going to WJ from Kensington especially with a new high school opening even closer. Woodward can take north of Tuckerman and off of Montrose like Luxmanor and Garrett Park.

For Crown: All of Crown, everything surrounding Crown (Rio, Diamondback), maybe a portion of King Farm, maybe small portion of Gaithersburg that goes to NorthWest can go to Crown. No reason to touch Wootton district TBH.

This would make Kensington the only incorporated Town in MoCo with split clusters.

Who cares re incorporated or not. Bethesda students go to 1 of 3 HS already. Woodward would make 4.

Bethesda is not incorporated. The point is the community within an incorporated town often want their collective students to attend the same schools, whether you agree with that or not.

but that is not happening today -- see GHS and RM.

Good point and something I learned from this conversation.

My reference point was the MSPS BoE notes from 2000 when they made the decision to align all of the incorporated town of Kensington to the KP-NB-WJ cluster. In the documented discussion the point was made that Kensington was the only town in MoCo not already assigned to a single HS cluster. Maybe at that time they were differentiating "town" vs "city".

Well then, the entire incorporated Town Of Kensington could go to the only high school actually located in Kensington, which is Einstein. But their point was never some vague sense of town unity. It was to be part of the schools in the next town over — Bethesda — because they’re richer.

Bethesda's not a town, it's an area.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

How is it different than the kids walking north to Wheaton HS?

Maybe there is no difference. The Connecticut Ave/University convergence strikes me as particularly treacherous. Walkers need to navigate a narrow walkway to cross train tracks. Would you send your freshman in the dark when its icy out to navigate the sidewalk and two major thoroughfares during rush hour? Maybe this is why this portion of Kensington goes to Walter Johnson. I don't know and don't have a dog in the fight. Just pointing out that this might be why, in some cases, the closest school isn't the best option because of traffic patterns.

There is no difference and this is one of the problems with how certain neighborhoods/populations are treated by MCPS. The kids from OTES and Highland in particular that are in the walk zone to Einstein are absolutely making a walk that is unsafe because of the roads that need to be crossed. Yet a similar walk is cited as a reason why ToK kids can’t possibly go to Einstein. Similarly, a few miles south, Bethesda kids that could walk to BCC get a bus because it is unsafe for them to cross Connecticut. If crossing Connecticut there is unsafe, it is just as unsafe for the Einstein kids to be crossing Connecticut, University or Viers Mill, yet here we are.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

Aren't they geographically closer to Kensington and everyone loves neighbood schools.

[Anonymous]

Most of Town of Kensington is north of Knowles Ave and easily in walking distance to Kensington . Yes you have to cross University Ave but so do walkers to Einstein now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

How is that different from kids in other neighborhoods? Kids cross Georgia, university, conn ave and veirs mill.

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Anonymous wrote:For Woodward: Kensington should be split between Einstein and B-CC. Absolutely no reason to be going to WJ from Kensington especially with a new high school opening even closer. Woodward can take north of Tuckerman and off of Montrose like Luxmanor and Garrett Park.

For Crown: All of Crown, everything surrounding Crown (Rio, Diamondback), maybe a portion of King Farm, maybe small portion of Gaithersburg that goes to NorthWest can go to Crown. No reason to touch Wootton district TBH.

This would make Kensington the only incorporated Town in MoCo with split clusters.

Who cares re incorporated or not. Bethesda students go to 1 of 3 HS already. Woodward would make 4.

Bethesda is not incorporated. The point is the community within an incorporated town often want their collective students to attend the same schools, whether you agree with that or not.

but that is not happening today -- see GHS and RM.

Good point and something I learned from this conversation.

My reference point was the MSPS BoE notes from 2000 when they made the decision to align all of the incorporated town of Kensington to the KP-NB-WJ cluster. In the documented discussion the point was made that Kensington was the only town in MoCo not already assigned to a single HS cluster. Maybe at that time they were differentiating "town" vs "city".

Well then, the entire incorporated Town Of Kensington could go to the only high school actually located in Kensington, which is Einstein. But their point was never some vague sense of town unity. It was to be part of the schools in the next town over — Bethesda — because they’re richer.

Nah -- richer peers is a side effect. It's because there will be less overcrowding moving that direction.

If the Ws are looking to keep out the hoi polloI, they should be advocating for enough funding to find space for and open new school facilities inside the Beltway to the east of Rock Creek.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

How is it different than the kids walking north to Wheaton HS?

Maybe there is no difference. The Connecticut Ave/University convergence strikes me as particularly treacherous. Walkers need to navigate a narrow walkway to cross train tracks. Would you send your freshman in the dark when its icy out to navigate the sidewalk and two major thoroughfares during rush hour? Maybe this is why this portion of Kensington goes to Walter Johnson. I don't know and don't have a dog in the fight. Just pointing out that this might be why, in some cases, the closest school isn't the best option because of traffic patterns.

No, they go to WJ as the town fought to get the kids there as it’s considered a better school and to self segregate. Kids on the other side of the tracks have to walk or parents drive as it’s two miles. Parents do it as they have no choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would it make sense to send the portion of Kensington south of Knowles to Einstein? Walking north, against traffic, in the early morning darkness, crossing Connecticut and/or University? Seems like a perilous trek.

Hopefully it wont ever rain or snow.

How is it different than the kids walking north to Wheaton HS?

Maybe there is no difference. The Connecticut Ave/University convergence strikes me as particularly treacherous. Walkers need to navigate a narrow walkway to cross train tracks. Would you send your freshman in the dark when its icy out to navigate the sidewalk and two major thoroughfares during rush hour? Maybe this is why this portion of Kensington goes to Walter Johnson. I don't know and don't have a dog in the fight. Just pointing out that this might be why, in some cases, the closest school isn't the best option because of traffic patterns.

If it's too dangerous then MCPS could provide a bus to Einstein, and it would still be a shorter ride than to WJ.

They will not and Einstein is overcrowded.

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Anonymous wrote:For Woodward: Kensington should be split between Einstein and B-CC. Absolutely no reason to be going to WJ from Kensington especially with a new high school opening even closer. Woodward can take north of Tuckerman and off of Montrose like Luxmanor and Garrett Park.

For Crown: All of Crown, everything surrounding Crown (Rio, Diamondback), maybe a portion of King Farm, maybe small portion of Gaithersburg that goes to NorthWest can go to Crown. No reason to touch Wootton district TBH.

This would make Kensington the only incorporated Town in MoCo with split clusters.

Who cares re incorporated or not. Bethesda students go to 1 of 3 HS already. Woodward would make 4.

Bethesda is not incorporated. The point is the community within an incorporated town often want their collective students to attend the same schools, whether you agree with that or not.

but that is not happening today -- see GHS and RM.

Good point and something I learned from this conversation.

My reference point was the MSPS BoE notes from 2000 when they made the decision to align all of the incorporated town of Kensington to the KP-NB-WJ cluster. In the documented discussion the point was made that Kensington was the only town in MoCo not already assigned to a single HS cluster. Maybe at that time they were differentiating "town" vs "city".

Well then, the entire incorporated Town Of Kensington could go to the only high school actually located in Kensington, which is Einstein. But their point was never some vague sense of town unity. It was to be part of the schools in the next town over — Bethesda — because they’re richer.

I never clocked it, but we lived right next to Kensington-Parkwood and I can assure you that I could get to WJ faster than Einstein - up Grosvenor Lane.