Luxmanor, Ashburton, Kensington-Parkwood, Garrett Park?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Luxmanor will still be in the holding school this school year, so that’s kind of annoying but it’s only one year. In general I think people like all the schools. Ashburton is overcrowded. There will be some reshuffling when the new Luxmanor building opens. Unclear if that will reduce overcrowding at Ashburton or only at Farmland.

Where will the holding school for Luxmanor be? Will they go to North Lake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with PP about boundary changes. It's hard to know what the county will do - but there is 100% likelihood that there will be boundary changes for the high school that services the ES you mentioned. My guess is that Ashburton is most likely to stay within WJ boundaries if you want to be there. It's unclear what the county is going to do with Woodward (which seems likely Luxmanor would be districted for) and it's unclear whether KP or GP will be carved out and redistricted to go elsewhere west or south in the county. Similar problem with Farmland but probably headed north in the county.

The issue being that if you spend a premium price to end up in WJ district but are then redistricted - your home value could go down.

Uh, what??

How could Ashburton ever get redistricted?

There are literally two neighborhood streets separating WJ & Ashburton.

They are 0.6 miles apart if you take the long way.

DP

My kids live less than a half mile from a Middle School that they could walk to. Instead, we're zoned for a MS two miles away, that really isn't walkable, and they have to take the bus.

I wouldn't assume that distance automatically means anything to MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with PP about boundary changes. It's hard to know what the county will do - but there is 100% likelihood that there will be boundary changes for the high school that services the ES you mentioned. My guess is that Ashburton is most likely to stay within WJ boundaries if you want to be there. It's unclear what the county is going to do with Woodward (which seems likely Luxmanor would be districted for) and it's unclear whether KP or GP will be carved out and redistricted to go elsewhere west or south in the county. Similar problem with Farmland but probably headed north in the county.

The issue being that if you spend a premium price to end up in WJ district but are then redistricted - your home value could go down.

Uh, what??

How could Ashburton ever get redistricted?

There are literally two neighborhood streets separating WJ & Ashburton.

They are 0.6 miles apart if you take the long way.

DP

My kids live less than a half mile from a Middle School that they could walk to. Instead, we're zoned for a MS two miles away, that really isn't walkable, and they have to take the bus.

I wouldn't assume that distance automatically means anything to MCPS.

The difference might be is if your kids (or neighborhood kids) attended the closer school in your neighborhood within the past 10+ years or so? Did they switch you from your neighborhood school to the one they're bussed to now?

There's a big difference between saying there's a closer school that our kids SHOULD attend, but have never attended in the past & actually changing every single thing so your kids now attend that school (am I making sense?).

Ashburton & WJ are only separated by 2 short neighborhood streets. If you walk directly out of Ashburton's lot & you keep going straight without making any turns, you'll run right into Walter Johnson High School.

Plus, there are hundreds of kids in this neighborhood that will go to WJ from Ashburton, they ALL walk to Ashburton presently & they'll walk to WJ when they're in high school.

There is no way that MCPS will add hundreds of thousands of dollars to their budget every year, just to bus all of these kids somewhere else. Especially when they've already been walking to school every day since Kindergarten.

That would be madness.

If you've never been to this neighborhood, I can see why you may not understand how improbable this notion is.

Now, if we're discussing the neighborhood that are outliers like Pooks Hill or even where the new houses that are going to be at the radio tower, they could very well be redistricted because (Pooks Hill especially) is on the very cusp of the district as it is. Those kids have also been bussed to go to ES, MS & HS, so there may be ways to save money by sending them to another high school (the new home's at the radio tower look to be situated almost directly in between Whitman & WJ).

I definitely don't see MCPS all of a sudden deciding they want to add thousands & thousands of dollars to their budget (that they've never HAD to spend before) just so they can now bus kids that have walked to school since Kindergarten already.

What would be the point of that?

[Anonymous]

Is MCPS going to reassign walkers? Probably not.

If you're in the walk zone, should you assume that there is no chance of your getting reassigned? Nope.

Especially because the area around Ashburton ES is also in the walk zone for Woodward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Luxmanor will still be in the holding school this school year, so that’s kind of annoying but it’s only one year. In general I think people like all the schools. Ashburton is overcrowded. There will be some reshuffling when the new Luxmanor building opens. Unclear if that will reduce overcrowding at Ashburton or only at Farmland.

Where will the holding school for Luxmanor be? Will they go to North Lake?

No, Grosvenor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is MCPS going to reassign walkers? Probably not.

If you're in the walk zone, should you assume that there is no chance of your getting reassigned? Nope.

Especially because the area around Ashburton ES is also in the walk zone for Woodward.

Woodward doesn't have a walk zone yet, because Woodward doesn't have boundaries yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Luxmanor will still be in the holding school this school year, so that’s kind of annoying but it’s only one year. In general I think people like all the schools. Ashburton is overcrowded. There will be some reshuffling when the new Luxmanor building opens. Unclear if that will reduce overcrowding at Ashburton or only at Farmland.

Where will the holding school for Luxmanor be? Will they go to North Lake?

Luxmanor already spent the whole last school year at Grosvenor. That’s their holding school and they will be there for most, if not all, of the coming school year as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is MCPS going to reassign walkers? Probably not.

If you're in the walk zone, should you assume that there is no chance of your getting reassigned? Nope.

Especially because the area around Ashburton ES is also in the walk zone for Woodward.

Woodward doesn't have a walk zone yet, because Woodward doesn't have boundaries yet.

Ashburton ES is less than 2 miles from Woodward. If people around Ashburton ES were reassigned from WJ to Woodward, they would go from being walkers to being walkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is MCPS going to reassign walkers? Probably not.

If you're in the walk zone, should you assume that there is no chance of your getting reassigned? Nope.

Especially because the area around Ashburton ES is also in the walk zone for Woodward.

Woodward doesn't have a walk zone yet, because Woodward doesn't have boundaries yet.

Agreed.
I think the PP is jumping the gun a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is MCPS going to reassign walkers? Probably not.

If you're in the walk zone, should you assume that there is no chance of your getting reassigned? Nope.

Especially because the area around Ashburton ES is also in the walk zone for Woodward.

Tilden MS is in Woodward now while their school is under construction.

Woodward is next scheduled to house students from Northwood High School in Silver Spring, which is slated for a $123 million expansion to begin in 2023 & is slated to last for 2+ years.

This timeline doesn't even including construction delays which always add months onto estimates, but even without delays, after Northwood I was told that Ashburton is not going to be considered in the walk zone for Woodward.

I'd heard it had something to do with the hundreds of kids that will have to walk or bike the mile+ commute down the narrow sidewalks of Old Georgetown Rd during the morning rush hour to get to Woodward (there's no other way to get there).

I'd be concerned about congestion, bottleneck or horseplay on the sidewalks spilling right over onto Old Georgetown Rd & into traffic.