New APS Elem Boundaries (ASFS)

[Anonymous]

Work session tonight to discuss elementary boundaries.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ATBQW96A258D

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work session tonight to discuss elementary boundaries.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ATBQW96A258D

Are there any docs from this work session? I'm hopeless at navigating the APS site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Work session tonight to discuss elementary boundaries.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ATBQW96A258D

Are there any docs from this work session? I'm hopeless at navigating the APS site.

Biggest Takeaway, was that they said that middle school boundary is not considered alignment with current elementary school boundaries, because they know the elementary schools are changing . This is the first time I’ve heard them actually say that.

[Anonymous]

Anything about walk zones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything about walk zones?

They hear people strongly prefer neighborhood schools, and talked about making sure choice schools not too close, like ATS and Reed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about walk zones?

They hear people strongly prefer neighborhood schools, and talked about making sure choice schools not too close, like ATS and Reed

No, what they heard is that people want a blend of option and neighborhood schools, but want neighborhood schools to be walkable when possible. They won't place two neighborhood schools too close together w/overlapping walk zones and may consider relocating option schools to accomplish better distribution of neighborhood seats with strong walk zones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about walk zones?

They hear people strongly prefer neighborhood schools, and talked about making sure choice schools not too close, like ATS and Reed[/quote]

No, what they heard is that people want a blend of option and neighborhood schools, but want neighborhood schools to be walkable when possible. They won't place two neighborhood schools too close together w/overlapping walk zones and may consider relocating option schools to accomplish better distribution of neighborhood seats with strong walk zones.

I thought Reed was a neighborhood school, not a choice school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about walk zones?

They hear people strongly prefer neighborhood schools, and talked about making sure choice schools not too close, like ATS and Reed

No, what they heard is that people want a blend of option and neighborhood schools, but want neighborhood schools to be walkable when possible. They won't place two neighborhood schools too close together w/overlapping walk zones and may consider relocating option schools to accomplish better distribution of neighborhood seats with strong walk zones.

Thank you. I came in late so only caught tail end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about walk zones?

They hear people strongly prefer neighborhood schools, and talked about making sure choice schools not too close, like ATS and Reed[/quote]

No, what they heard is that people want a blend of option and neighborhood schools, but want neighborhood schools to be walkable when possible. They won't place two neighborhood schools too close together w/overlapping walk zones and may consider relocating option schools to accomplish better distribution of neighborhood seats with strong walk zones.

I thought Reed was a neighborhood school, not a choice school.

Some proposal have reed as choice, I think to increase diversity in NoArl?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Some proposal have reed as choice, I think to increase diversity in NoArl?

Aside from immersion, what choice program increases diversity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about walk zones?

They hear people strongly prefer neighborhood schools, and talked about making sure choice schools not too close, like ATS and Reed

No, what they heard is that people want a blend of option and neighborhood schools, but want neighborhood schools to be walkable when possible. They won't place two neighborhood schools too close together w/overlapping walk zones and may consider relocating option schools to accomplish better distribution of neighborhood seats with strong walk zones.

Interesting. Any hints about which schools might be in play? We're within the walk zone for three different neighborhood elementary schools, which seems a bit absurd.

[Anonymous]

Some people have argued on here that they are only doing S. Arlington elementary boundaries for 2019, but the agenda from the work session says for 2019: "Implement new elementary boundaries in S. Arlington and where possible in N. Arlington to alleviate crowding." Then for 2021: "Implement remaining elementary boundaries."

To me it would make sense to do redraw all the elementary boundaries at one time next year, then enact them in waves as schools come online, so S. Arlington/ASFS boundaries would take effect in 2019 when Fleet opens, and the rest would take effect in 2021 when Reed opens. Because going through it twice seems ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Some proposal have reed as choice, I think to increase diversity in NoArl?

Aside from immersion, what choice program increases diversity?

ATS. If the SB really had their druthers, they'd look at relocating ATS to Discovery, Jamestown or Nottingham, turning the current ATS building into a neighborhood school, and redistributing students accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some people have argued on here that they are only doing S. Arlington elementary boundaries for 2019, but the agenda from the work session says for 2019: "Implement new elementary boundaries in S. Arlington and where possible in N. Arlington to alleviate crowding." Then for 2021: "Implement remaining elementary boundaries."

To me it would make sense to do redraw all the elementary boundaries at one time next year, then enact them in waves as schools come online, so S. Arlington/ASFS boundaries would take effect in 2019 when Fleet opens, and the rest would take effect in 2021 when Reed opens. Because going through it twice seems ridiculous.

I'm sure they'll tweak a little bit in North Arlington where they can based on the new south Arlington boundaries to alleviate some of the overcrowding at McKinley and Glebe, but they're not going to do a full re-draw in North Arlington this spring. Not only would it make the process substantially more complex for the spring to have so many more moving parts, but Reed is still almost four years away and the projections will shift (as they always do) in the two years between this elementary boundary process and when they've scheduled to it for Reed. They're not going to re-draw North Arlington now and take the risk they'll have to do it again in two years anyway because something about the population has changed that will make the post-Reed boundaries significantly imbalanced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about walk zones?

They hear people strongly prefer neighborhood schools, and talked about making sure choice schools not too close, like ATS and Reed[/quote]

No, what they heard is that people want a blend of option and neighborhood schools, but want neighborhood schools to be walkable when possible. They won't place two neighborhood schools too close together w/overlapping walk zones and may consider relocating option schools to accomplish better distribution of neighborhood seats with strong walk zones.

I thought Reed was a neighborhood school, not a choice school.

Some proposal have reed as choice, I think to increase diversity in NoArl?

This is directly from the SB website -- has something changed?

Since the School Board has determined that the new elementary school will be a neighborhood school with its own attendance zone, future elementary school students living near the Reed Building may be impacted by decisions regarding the new school.