Drew Model Elementary: proposed boundaries (s/o from APS/SA thread specific to Drew)

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with you, and was horrified when I first looked at the map. I sat down with all the data to try and make some alternative proposals.
The problem is our current walk-zone fetish. Try to move Columbia Heights somewhere else. They can't go to Abingdon b/c it is full, and moving any Abingdon units results in either breaking contiguity or breaking their walk zone. They can't go to Randolph b/c it is basically full from its walkzone. the same with Barcoft- You could switch 37050 out of Barcroft and replace it with 37090- but that is not going to make much of a difference. You can't send all of Columbia Heights to Barcroft- it would way overflow it.

If you drop the walkzone obsession, you could move 36091 to Drew, allowing 36130 to also go to Drew. 36130 is Fairlington on the other side of 395- its 150 kids, less than 10 FARMS. 36091 is about 10 kids all FARMS. It looks like there are about 170 kids in the Columbia Heights units proposed to go to Drew- most of which are FARMS (maybe 150 FARMS?) That would maybe put Abingdon at 1/2 FARMS, and bring Drew's FARMS rate down significantly.

If you did that- you might also be able to make 38050 Abingdon instead of Randolph, and swap it for 46011 which would slightly help Randolph demographics.

This is OP. The walk zone thing isn't going away and I'm not going to fight it. It's a huge problem for really doing anything about demographics, but I'm taking APS at its word that transportation costs are a problem and need to be minimized. I am, however, also taking APS at its word that it really weighs its own policy considerations. When I see a boundary like the proposed Drew boundary, APS's word on that is seriously called into question.

Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I live in the current Abingdon-Kenmore zone in Columbia Forest. Your proposal looks pretty good to me.

Conversely, you could take the Fairlington non-walkers to Drew, which would preserve MS alignment, wouldn't increase fr/l rate at Barcoft or Randolph, gives relief to Abingdon, and Columbia Forest stays put where it is.

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Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

[Anonymous]

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Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

It doesn't make sense to me since there are closer PUs, ones that are immediately adjacent, with more direct bus routes that are not being sent to Drew. Columbia Heights and Fairlington come to mind.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:[guardian]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

It doesn't make sense to me since there are closer PUs, ones that are immediately adjacent, with more direct bus routes that are not being sent to Drew. Columbia Heights and Fairlington come to mind.

But Abingdon is in Fairlington...

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And Fairlington isn’t a direct bus route if you look at a map they have to drive past Abingdon and go down Shirlington or into Alexandria and go on 395 to get there i wouldn’t call that direct.

[Anonymous]

I don’t live in Fairlington anymore, so i have no dog in this fight. But I get why Fairlington would be upset being moced to Drew regardless of “not wanting to be wirh tge poors.” While those PU you discuss are technically out of the walkzone, they are very walkable to Abingdon and now Drew. Fairlington sees Abingdon as part of the Fairlington community...not randomly on a road nearby, but actually nestled in the community. It is totally rediculous that they are split into three different middle schools, don’t go suggesting some of the neighborhood be taken out of the neighborhood elementary. I didn’t get it until I lived there, but the community IS very tight knit despite being so large.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t live in Fairlington anymore, so i have no dog in this fight. But I get why Fairlington would be upset being moced to Drew regardless of “not wanting to be wirh tge poors.” While those PU you discuss are technically out of the walkzone, they are very walkable to Abingdon and now Drew. Fairlington sees Abingdon as part of the Fairlington community...not randomly on a road nearby, but actually nestled in the community. It is totally rediculous that they are split into three different middle schools, don’t go suggesting some of the neighborhood be taken out of the neighborhood elementary. I didn’t get it until I lived there, but the community IS very tight knit despite being so large.

As it is right now Fairlington is still together for Elementary and Middle they are not split.

Abingdon is split for middle school but the split is Columbia Forest is at Kenmore, Claremont is at Jefferson and Fairlington is at Gunston.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:[guardian]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

I don't see why Randolph couldn't handle a few buses, they have a bus lane and a SPED bus daily

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:[guardian]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

I don't see why Randolph couldn't handle a few buses, they have a bus lane and a SPED bus daily

I don’t know since I’m not a Randolph I’ve just been told that the SPED busses have trouble as it is so full sized busses wouldntoov

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you for starting this (I'm the person who originally asked how I could help advocate for you). I'm making notes on all of this and will keep following this and other discussions here to get as much info as I can before I submit my response.

NP. What would be absolutely fantastic is if you could rally your PTA and other NA school PTAs to take a stand on this and take the position that intentionally creating an 80% FRL school is absolutely unacceptable and inconsistent with the professed values of Arlington County and Arlington Public Schools. The only way anything is ever going to change in APS or in the County is if the NORTH pushes for it.

I agree the North needs to help push for it, but I don't think you can realistically expect that to happen on the PTA level. PTAs need to get approval from their memberships before taking positions on these kinds of issues, and PTA memberships are often sufficiently diverse that it's hard for a PTA to take a position without working against a member's interest (that's why you get things like McKinley's PTA not taking a position on the location review last spring even though the decision could have had significantly implications for them). If you look at Discovery, for instance, last year they had transfers from Abingdon, Drew, Long Branch, Oakridge and Randolph, and those members' interests count just as much as the families who live in the Discovery zone.

[Anonymous]

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Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

Drew is actually 2.3 miles from the corner of Columbia pike and Frederick across from Columbia Mill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:[guardian]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

Drew is actually 2.3 miles from the corner of Columbia pike and Frederick across from Columbia Mill.

Abingdon, Randolph, and Barcroft are all a full mile closer to the Columbia Forest island in the staff map.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[guardian]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

Drew is actually 2.3 miles from the corner of Columbia pike and Frederick across from Columbia Mill.

Abingdon, Randolph, and Barcroft are all a full mile closer to the Columbia Forest island in the staff map.

The south of the pike Henry zones are 1.1 miles from Drew, and adjacent to its current zone. Columbia Forest is a mile farther away and is an island. Not even debatable. Just use google. It's just plain, naked favoritism.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:
Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.

I don't think that works. I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050) It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights. In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's. 38050 and 38100. Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students). Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue. You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering... What APS is doing here is just shameful

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What 3 schools?

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question: Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue.
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away

Drew is actually 2.3 miles from the corner of Columbia pike and Frederick across from Columbia Mill.

Abingdon, Randolph, and Barcroft are all a full mile closer to the Columbia Forest island in the staff map.

The south of the pike Henry zones are 1.1 miles from Drew, and adjacent to its current zone. Columbia Forest is a mile farther away and is an island. Not even debatable. Just use google. It's just plain, naked favoritism.

Not really Abingdon still has the issue of being super crowded so they have to split it up somehow. Remember that’s why this is all happening to begin with.