the Key/ASFS building switch...
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Anonymous
So we are back to moving option to Nottingham? Maybe SB had a clue after all. |
Anonymous
| There are a few NA elementaries with fewer K classes than usual this year. Most class years at Nottingham seem to be on the bubble between three and four classes, usually they just get into four but sometimes not (some classes years have even bounced between three and four classes year to year based on fouctuations of just a couple of kids). |
Anonymous
| If class size caps increase the way the SB is warning they might, that will change the capacity calculations for schools and might affect the calculus on which programs should go where. |
Anonymous
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I looked at the numbers for projected K students, how many K classes that would have translated into, the actual number of K classes and the actual number of 1st grade classes for the NA neighborhood elementaries. For some schools I needed to make guesses on actual classes because they don't list the classes on the web page and I had to try to figure it from the general staff directory; if anyone sees errors there, let me know.
From what I can tell, there are two schools that have fewer K class this year than last spring's projections would have predicted - Nottingham (4 projected; appears to be 3) and Glebe (5 projected, appears to be 4). Both of those schools also appear to have one fewer K class than 1st grade class this year. Glebe is interesting, I wouldn't have expected it to be on that list, but maybe it has 4 really big classes and just missed the cut-off for a fifth. But if enrollment numbers there are dropping, that could have interesting implications for capacity around ASFS/Key given its proximity to ASFS. Other schools that appear to have fewer kindergarten classes than first grade classes this year (but class numbers in line with projections): Ashlawn (5 K/6 1st), Discovery (4 K /5 1st), Tuckahoe (4 K/5 1st). Other than the Glebe outlier, it tends to suggest that moving an option program somewhere that would use up excess capacity when Reed opens makes sense. I'm not convinced that Nottingham is the answer (taking away trailer most of the trailer capacity in the NW seems like a risky proposition), it could go to Tuckahoe or Jamestown as well, or to Carlin Springs and have the Ashlawn boundary cross 50. |
Anonymous
So APS will bus all the Mexicans to Nottingham? |
Anonymous
Only 1/2...but I bet the PTA will throw one heck of a Cinco de Mayo party up there. Arriba Nottingham Caballeros!!! |
Anonymous
No, they'll put ATS there and minority numbers at ATS will drop. |
Anonymous
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No option schools are getting moved except for Key, and its getting moved to asfs. This is all blatant speculation and fake news.
Honestly would the existing key community want the school to move 1 mile away or to another part of the county? I assume that they would want it to be 1 mile away (still within walking distance to a large segment of the current neighborhood it serves) versus moving to carlin springs. ATS is teeny tiny. Putting it there will just make the program smaller. |
Anonymous
So what? Is there a quote for minorities at ATS? |
Anonymous
^^quota^^?? |
Anonymous
| I can do one better. How about we phase out ATS over the next 6 years? Start filling it with a neighborhood boundary in 2021 and allow existing students to finish? |
Anonymous
Doubt it. A larger part of a schools' capacity is common use space (lunch room, gym, playground), so that you don't have kids lunch at 945AM. |
Anonymous
Many schools have cafeteria capacities substantially larger than their classroom capacities. |
Anonymous
I think this is true. Given the projected budget shortfalls, I think they just won't have the funds available to move schools unless they really have to. |
Anonymous
| Moving Key will cost money no matter where you move it. If the budget is tight, I can imagine this being put on hold. I apologize if I’m late to the conversation, but have they released cost projections associated with a swap? |