Boundary Review Meetings

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Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It actually doesn't make sense (and I'm not a Hunt Valley parent). WSHS is about 400-500 students overenrolled. They could move all of Hunt Valley and only just bring WSHS down to capacity. It wouldn't "make room" for Crestwood and RVES students. Likely adding those would easily keep it at it's super high numbers and completely defeat the point of trying to address over-crowding at WSHS. As we saw when the Daventry parents convinced the district to move from WSES/Key/Lewis to WSES/Irving/WSHS back in the early 2000s, those townhomes that used to have a small number of families at Lewis BALLOONED to adding a ton to WSHS. Everyone with kids who used to move or do private when they got to middle and high school stayed and went to WSHS. The same would happen with the "small" amount of kids that split off from Rolling Valley and likely the Crestwood community.

There should not be ONE SINGLE HOUSEHOLD added to WSHS boundaries. Not one. And I think there should be some adjustments made to alleviate the overcrowding. Like Sangster to LBSS and possibly some of the HV communities south of the parkway moving to South County.

Adding ANY students to WSHS is ridiculous and I hope it is not the plan.

yeah maybe just adding HV to lewis is all that is needed to balance the schools.

Lewis’s program capacity doesn’t currently support it. It can be increased, but so far all of Thru’s modeling has been based on those numbers.

Oh yes it would.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It also gives Sandy Anderson room to move her friends from Rolling Valley into WSHS and out of Lewis. This was probably the plan all along. Going to be lots of surprises in October when the new maps are released!

Which interestingly enough, on the region priority feedback documents, the original proposal of moving those students to Saratoga was supported. At least the way I was reading it. So if that is a change, it’s definitely Sandy Anderson meddling.

Moving those RVES kids to WSHS makes sense.
Moving some of HVES kids to South County or Lewis makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It actually doesn't make sense (and I'm not a Hunt Valley parent). WSHS is about 400-500 students overenrolled. They could move all of Hunt Valley and only just bring WSHS down to capacity. It wouldn't "make room" for Crestwood and RVES students. Likely adding those would easily keep it at it's super high numbers and completely defeat the point of trying to address over-crowding at WSHS. As we saw when the Daventry parents convinced the district to move from WSES/Key/Lewis to WSES/Irving/WSHS back in the early 2000s, those townhomes that used to have a small number of families at Lewis BALLOONED to adding a ton to WSHS. Everyone with kids who used to move or do private when they got to middle and high school stayed and went to WSHS. The same would happen with the "small" amount of kids that split off from Rolling Valley and likely the Crestwood community.

There should not be ONE SINGLE HOUSEHOLD added to WSHS boundaries. Not one. And I think there should be some adjustments made to alleviate the overcrowding. Like Sangster to LBSS and possibly some of the HV communities south of the parkway moving to South County.

Adding ANY students to WSHS is ridiculous and I hope it is not the plan.

yeah maybe just adding HV to lewis is all that is needed to balance the schools.

Lewis’s program capacity doesn’t currently support it. It can be increased, but so far all of Thru’s modeling has been based on those numbers.

Oh yes it would.

Only because 300+ kids every year pupil place out for AP classes etc. If they managed to get rid of IB there and bring in more AP classes that would stop and there wouldn't be a lot of space there. It would be in the upper 90s for capacity.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain the process if Sizemore- Rachna or Moon becomes the Braddock district representative. Does that mean we in the Braddock district will be left without representation during the vote for the boundary change?
When is the date that Rachna would start and when is the boundary change going to be voted on?
Is there a possibility we don’t have a school board member for this vote?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain the process if Sizemore- Rachna or Moon becomes the Braddock district representative. Does that mean we in the Braddock district will be left without representation during the vote for the boundary change?
When is the date that Rachna would start and when is the boundary change going to be voted on?
Is there a possibility we don’t have a school board member for this vote?

Yes, it’s possible that the Braddock seat on the School Board will be vacant when the SB votes on boundary changes. It all depends on the timing of the special election to fill Walkinshaw’s seat on the BOS (perhaps this December) and then, if Rachna or Moon wins, the timing of a special election to fill a vacant School Board seat.

They would say you’re still represented by the at-large SB members even if the Braddock District seat is vacant for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain the process if Sizemore- Rachna or Moon becomes the Braddock district representative. Does that mean we in the Braddock district will be left without representation during the vote for the boundary change?
When is the date that Rachna would start and when is the boundary change going to be voted on?
Is there a possibility we don’t have a school board member for this vote?

Yes, it’s possible that the Braddock seat on the School Board will be vacant when the SB votes on boundary changes. It all depends on the timing of the special election to fill Walkinshaw’s seat on the BOS (perhaps this December) and then, if Rachna or Moon wins, the timing of a special election to fill a vacant School Board seat.

They would say you’re still represented by the at-large SB members even if the Braddock District seat is vacant for a while.

They requested Dec 6 for the Special Election, so I assume the seat on BOS would be filled right after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It also gives Sandy Anderson room to move her friends from Rolling Valley into WSHS and out of Lewis. This was probably the plan all along. Going to be lots of surprises in October when the new maps are released!

Which interestingly enough, on the region priority feedback documents, the original proposal of moving those students to Saratoga was supported. At least the way I was reading it. So if that is a change, it’s definitely Sandy Anderson meddling.

Moving those RVES kids to WSHS makes sense.
Moving some of HVES kids to South County or Lewis makes sense.

That part of Rolling Valley has always been zoned to Lewis, and is far closer to Lewis than Hunt Valley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It actually doesn't make sense (and I'm not a Hunt Valley parent). WSHS is about 400-500 students overenrolled. They could move all of Hunt Valley and only just bring WSHS down to capacity. It wouldn't "make room" for Crestwood and RVES students. Likely adding those would easily keep it at it's super high numbers and completely defeat the point of trying to address over-crowding at WSHS. As we saw when the Daventry parents convinced the district to move from WSES/Key/Lewis to WSES/Irving/WSHS back in the early 2000s, those townhomes that used to have a small number of families at Lewis BALLOONED to adding a ton to WSHS. Everyone with kids who used to move or do private when they got to middle and high school stayed and went to WSHS. The same would happen with the "small" amount of kids that split off from Rolling Valley and likely the Crestwood community.

There should not be ONE SINGLE HOUSEHOLD added to WSHS boundaries. Not one. And I think there should be some adjustments made to alleviate the overcrowding. Like Sangster to LBSS and possibly some of the HV communities south of the parkway moving to South County.

Adding ANY students to WSHS is ridiculous and I hope it is not the plan.

yeah maybe just adding HV to lewis is all that is needed to balance the schools.

Kernel Mill is actually the most logical choice to move to Lewis.

They are the closest WSHS neighborhood to Lewis, closer than even Daventry.

And size wise, once you remove the AAP kids from other pyramids like Lake Braddock, they are the perfect size to bring Lewis to full capacity. Hunt Valley is much bigger that Keene Mill, and has way more students than Lewis can absorb. You can look at the school profiles to see this.

Keene Mill is walking distance to Irving and biking distance to WSHS. Doesn’t make much sense.

Amanda the closest neighborhood to Lewis of all the WSHS elementary schools.