Westland and Pyle geographic zoning seems crazy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPC have tried very hard to social engineering the school boundaries. Have you noticed the kids in the shelter on north side of Greentree Rd are attending Whitman instead of WJ?
Kids live near River rd and seneca rd attend NWHS in Germantown, passing QOHS on their bus ride. Rio is an island. Gaithersburg HS’ boundary is stretched from east side of 270 to the northeast end of MC.

Oh, that's terrible! Which bus route, specifically, goes past Quince Orchard HS?

Rio will stop being an island after the Crown HS boundary study.

I'm laughing about the "social engineering" involved in assigning Wyngate to WJ instead of Whitman.

Darnestwon ES covers southeast side of QCHS, but its students go to NWHS.

Do you know why Rio is an island?

I meant the one address on the north-side of Greentree Rd was assigned to Whitman boundary, instead of Wyngate/NBMS/WJ. Not about Wyngate ES.

Which bus route, specifically, goes past Quince Orchard HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPC have tried very hard to social engineering the school boundaries. Have you noticed the kids in the shelter on north side of Greentree Rd are attending Whitman instead of WJ?
Kids live near River rd and seneca rd attend NWHS in Germantown, passing QOHS on their bus ride. Rio is an island. Gaithersburg HS’ boundary is stretched from east side of 270 to the northeast end of MC.

Oh, that's terrible! Which bus route, specifically, goes past Quince Orchard HS?

Rio will stop being an island after the Crown HS boundary study.

I'm laughing about the "social engineering" involved in assigning Wyngate to WJ instead of Whitman.

Darnestwon ES covers southeast side of QCHS, but its students go to NWHS.

Do you know why Rio is an island?

I meant the one address on the north-side of Greentree Rd was assigned to Whitman boundary, instead of Wyngate/NBMS/WJ. Not about Wyngate ES.

False. All of Darnestown ES's zone is southwest of QO. Neighborhoods southeast of QO go to QO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am investigating moving to the Westland/BCC district and noticing that a bunch of places in the Westbard and Kenwood area that are basically right next door to Westland but are zoned for Pyle. I mean these are dwellings that are literally a few hundred yards from Westland and three+ miles from Pyle but you have to take your kid out to Pyle? What’s up with that? Is there any flexibility?

I realize that both are good schools but it’s a plus for me to live walking distance from my kids school and I’d rather live closer in

Is there any flexibility? So you'd prefer to have your kids go through elementary school, make friends, and then have to leave them all to go to a different middle school so you don't have to put them on a bus?

Smart plan, OP. Really sharp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am investigating moving to the Westland/BCC district and noticing that a bunch of places in the Westbard and Kenwood area that are basically right next door to Westland but are zoned for Pyle. I mean these are dwellings that are literally a few hundred yards from Westland and three+ miles from Pyle but you have to take your kid out to Pyle? What’s up with that? Is there any flexibility?

I realize that both are good schools but it’s a plus for me to live walking distance from my kids school and I’d rather live closer in

Is there any flexibility? So you'd prefer to have your kids go through elementary school, make friends, and then have to leave them all to go to a different middle school so you don't have to put them on a bus?

Smart plan, OP. Really sharp.

Back when it was Western Jr High it did have split articulation. Western pulled from westmoreland hills, Westgate, wood acres, Sumner, glen echo heights, etc. The high school borders were the same as they are today (or close to it) but the middle school was not. And in a weirder twist, Western was 7-9th grades.

It was strange to split after middle school, although I left for private school so didn’t actually experience it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am investigating moving to the Westland/BCC district and noticing that a bunch of places in the Westbard and Kenwood area that are basically right next door to Westland but are zoned for Pyle. I mean these are dwellings that are literally a few hundred yards from Westland and three+ miles from Pyle but you have to take your kid out to Pyle? What’s up with that? Is there any flexibility?

I realize that both are good schools but it’s a plus for me to live walking distance from my kids school and I’d rather live closer in

Is there any flexibility? So you'd prefer to have your kids go through elementary school, make friends, and then have to leave them all to go to a different middle school so you don't have to put them on a bus?

Smart plan, OP. Really sharp.

Back when it was Western Jr High it did have split articulation. Western pulled from westmoreland hills, Westgate, wood acres, Sumner, glen echo heights, etc. The high school borders were the same as they are today (or close to it) but the middle school was not. And in a weirder twist, Western was 7-9th grades.

It was strange to split after middle school, although I left for private school so didn’t actually experience it.

That wasn't a "weirder twist", that was "junior high school".

[Anonymous]

I still say Junior High. Middle School is weird.