APS middle school boundary process
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Anonymous
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Does APS/SB have a stated policy for maximizing Title I Funds? - is this prioritized above/below walkable, no islands...?
On the APS website I only see elementary schools "Abingdon, Barcroft, Barrett, Campbell, Carlin Springs, Drew, Hoffman-Boston, and Randolph operate Title I schoolwide programs" with over 40% FARMS. Does it even apply to middle schools? |
Anonymous
| Why, if the SB is ok with a Rosslyn island at Williamsburg can't there be a Columbia pike island there, too? |
Anonymous
Then WMS would become Spanish Immersion for 22207..and the SB wouldn't allow it. |
Anonymous
But doesn't that seem perfect? Two immersion program, one for east Arlington and one for west (since the SB is moving away from n-s programs)? |
Anonymous
But doesn't that seem perfect? Two immersion program, one for east Arlington and one for west (since the SB is moving away from n-s programs)? |
Anonymous
I agree, they aren't being creative. They could also do a better job explaining the STEM program at Kenmore and target the ASFS crowd. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| No time to read the whole thread but is the gist that moving some areas to the new Stratford middle school could turn both Kenmore and Jefferson into super-high poverty schools? What about Gunston? |
Anonymous
| what would make sense it to move the middle school immersion program to Kenmore. That would be a more centralized location then its current location at Gunston. If Kenmore is the school that most people want to avoid (a premise I reject btw) then putting a magnet program there makes sense. |
Anonymous
It’s no secret that Kenmore is at the bottom of the list. - South Arlington parent |
Anonymous
Gunston is between 38-40% fr/l in each scenario, so it's higher than present (33%). I hadn't realized that it's going up at Gunston, too, in every single scenario. What stood out to me was the capacity, while going down, is still over in most scenarios. In 4/5 scenarios Gunston remains above 110% capacity. Only scenario H (demographics blended w/proximity has Gunston below, at 109%). I plan to suggest via Engage that perhaps they could move the MS Spanish Immersion program to Kenmore, which looks to be between 97%-105% capacity in each scenario, and is more centrally located if they're only going to have one MS immersion program for the county. |
Anonymous
| F’’k the people who call us parents racist just because we don’t like the far distance from the school plus Arlington County would have to spend a lot of money to bus people around in that diversity plan. |
Anonymous
| The bus money that would have to be spent in the diversity plan could be better used to increase quality of education in our schools |
Anonymous
Yes that would seem to be the ideal for the school system but so much easier for APS to ( ignore the problems within the schools) implement the bandaid solutions. |
Anonymous
| As it is at my sons school have the time they don’t have enough bus drivers so they double up in one bus and it takes 50 minutes to get home from a school two miles away but the diversity plan would more than double the amount of kids riding the bus |