MCPS High School Boundary Map? Current.

[Anonymous]

You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

Build a new high school at the Brickyard Rd site. That would make a lot of boundary adjustments possible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

Build a new high school at the Brickyard Rd site. That would make a lot of boundary adjustments possible.

Until the boundaries are redrawn that make a bit more sense, we shouldn't build anymore schools. There are some schools that are currently under capacity. Let's fill those up before we build more.

[Anonymous]

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You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

Build a new high school at the Brickyard Rd site. That would make a lot of boundary adjustments possible.

Until the boundaries are redrawn that make a bit more sense, we shouldn't build anymore schools. There are some schools that are currently under capacity. Let's fill those up before we build more.

Which high schools in the western part of the county are under capacity?

[Anonymous]

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And this is Churchhill, you can barely see the purple icon for the HS but it is there..

These maps for Wootton and Churchill are somewhat deceptive because of the very low population density in the extreme western portion of the county. Ideally you don't want the school in the middle of the boundary area, but rather you want to minimize the total distance traveled by all students to that school. The current boundaries for Wootton and Churchill then make more sense, if you consider that the highest population density for both schools is in the eastern portion of their capture area.

[Anonymous]

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You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

Here it is Bethesda Chevy Chase. (purple icon) It does seem pretty balanced indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

That's the problem with the Western part of the county. There is no easy way to diversify Whitman and Churchill without really throwing geography out the window. I'm kind of curious to see how they handle this issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

That's the problem with the Western part of the county. There is no easy way to diversify Whitman and Churchill without really throwing geography out the window. I'm kind of curious to see how they handle this issue.

Which is why some folks in the western part of the county worry that redistricting could mean long bus rides for kids if diversifying student populations is a key goal of the effort. It's not a crazy thing to worry about when you try to square the rhetoric with the geography.

[Anonymous]

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Which is why some folks in the western part of the county worry that redistricting could mean long bus rides for kids if diversifying student populations is a key goal of the effort. It's not a crazy thing to worry about when you try to square the rhetoric with the geography.

Geography is part of the rhetoric. Geography is included in the rhetoric. So you don't have to square anything. It's already in there.

[Anonymous]

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You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

Build a new high school at the Brickyard Rd site. That would make a lot of boundary adjustments possible.

Until the boundaries are redrawn that make a bit more sense, we shouldn't build anymore schools. There are some schools that are currently under capacity. Let's fill those up before we build more.

Schools can’t all run at exactly 100% capacity. MCPS and state guidelines recommend 80-100% capacity as ideal. There are VERY few MCPS schools under 80% capacity. We do not have an equal number of empty seats and over-capacity/trailer seats. We do need to build. We have added a full HS worth of students county-wide each year for 10 of the last 11 years. We do need to build.

[Anonymous]

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Which is why some folks in the western part of the county worry that redistricting could mean long bus rides for kids if diversifying student populations is a key goal of the effort. It's not a crazy thing to worry about when you try to square the rhetoric with the geography.

Geography is part of the rhetoric. Geography is included in the rhetoric. So you don't have to square anything. It's already in there.

All the more reason to be concerned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You don't know the BCC service area. BCC is actually one of the most sensibly drawn school boundary right now. But it can't accommodate many more students and there is no additional space for additions. BCC is exactly between 4 of the elementary schools (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, North Chevy Chase and Somerset), with Westbrook, Rock Creek Forest and Rosemary Hills off to the side). For reasons discussed ad nauseam on this board related to equity, it makes no sense to move the less affluent neighborhoods of RCF or Rosemary Hills away from BCC, which is otherwise an extremely wealth cluster. But Westbrook, which is closer to Whitman than BCC and is also very wealthy, could easily be moved. Carderock is outside the beltway and it could potentially cut down on transportation costs and environmental impact to move it to Churchill.

Just we need...more wealthy families at Churchill.

That's the problem with the Western part of the county. There is no easy way to diversify Whitman and Churchill without really throwing geography out the window. I'm kind of curious to see how they handle this issue.

If you think there is a problem, I guess that's right.

[Anonymous]

This particular thread seems to be one of the few with actually well though out points/arguments. Maybe that is because it states so many actual facts instead of all of the fear mongering on other threads. At any rate ....made me happy to see is all. The Wootton island is there because way back in the day when that high rise at Rio was the only residential development in the area and needed a school they sent it to Wootton. Not sure why exactly but at the time it did not include many students. That is obviously not the case any more. Again - another reason why this boundary study is so necessary.

[Anonymous]

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Which is why some folks in the western part of the county worry that redistricting could mean long bus rides for kids if diversifying student populations is a key goal of the effort. It's not a crazy thing to worry about when you try to square the rhetoric with the geography.

Geography is part of the rhetoric. Geography is included in the rhetoric. So you don't have to square anything. It's already in there.

All the more reason to be concerned.

If MCPS weren't talking about geography, you'd be concerned. But MCPS is talking about geography, so - you're concerned.

Let's be clear that this is not about MCPS. It's about you.

[Anonymous]

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Which is why some folks in the western part of the county worry that redistricting could mean long bus rides for kids if diversifying student populations is a key goal of the effort. It's not a crazy thing to worry about when you try to square the rhetoric with the geography.

Geography is part of the rhetoric. Geography is included in the rhetoric. So you don't have to square anything. It's already in there.

All the more reason to be concerned.

If MCPS weren't talking about geography, you'd be concerned. But MCPS is talking about geography, so - you're concerned.

Let's be clear that this is not about MCPS. It's about you.

OK smarty pants. How do you propose to bring more "diversity" to Whitman and Churchill, two clusters adjacent to three other clusters (Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson) that allegedly also need more diversity. It's easy to see how you make those three more diverse without long bus commutes, because they border clusters of schools that tend to have at least somewhat higher FARMS rates. That's much less true of Whitman and Churchill. So let us know how you plan to redraw boundaries for Churchill and Whitman in a way that significantly improves diversity but does not require long bus commutes on the part of students coming in or out.