Boundary study - BCC

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

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Anonymous wrote:Overcrowding does not seem to impact testing or school outcomes in MC PS. So what’s the big deal.

Nowhere to sit in the cafeteria, nowhere to park in the parking lot, not enough restrooms, unsafe conditions in crowded hallways especially during emergencies, portable classrooms taking up much of the space designed for recess/athletics, not to mention all the money they have to spend year after year to lease and maintain the portables.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

The "neighborhood school" is the school your neighborhood goes to.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

I don’t live in that portion of Kensington, but Einstein isn’t really that nearby nor is that Einstein’s “neighborhood”. It’s about 2.5 miles from the Mormon temple to Einstein, and about 4 miles to BCC. Now you legitimate can ask about the part of Kensington between the Homewood neighborhood
and Connecticut that is zoned for WJ, because those homes are all a mile or less from Einstein and would likely be included in the Einstein walk zone if they were zoned there, yet they are bussed to WJ.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

I don’t live in that portion of Kensington, but Einstein isn’t really that nearby nor is that Einstein’s “neighborhood”. It’s about 2.5 miles from the Mormon temple to Einstein, and about 4 miles to BCC. Now you legitimate can ask about the part of Kensington between the Homewood neighborhood
and Connecticut that is zoned for WJ, because those homes are all a mile or less from Einstein and would likely be included in the Einstein walk zone if they were zoned there, yet they are bussed to WJ.

That's kind of subjective. It's still closer than BCC or any other school for that matter.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

The "neighborhood school" is the school your neighborhood goes to.

The "neighborhood school" is the school in your neighborhood that people should go to.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

The "neighborhood school" is the school your neighborhood goes to.

The "neighborhood school" is the school in your neighborhood that people should go to.

I think these odd boundaries around Einstein HS date back to when Montgomery Blair HS moved out of its old building on Wayne Ave and into its new campus in 4 Corners around 25 years ago. All the high schools needed new boundaries. There’s been intertia ever since and the DCC solidified the boundaries. It would take a lot of political willpower to make any substantive changes.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

The "neighborhood school" is the school your neighborhood goes to.

The "neighborhood school" is the school in your neighborhood that people should go to.

Not every neighborhood has a school within it. There are usually several reasonably close by schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

The "neighborhood school" is the school your neighborhood goes to.

The "neighborhood school" is the school in your neighborhood that people should go to.

I think these odd boundaries around Einstein HS date back to when Montgomery Blair HS moved out of its old building on Wayne Ave and into its new campus in 4 Corners around 25 years ago. All the high schools needed new boundaries. There’s been intertia ever since and the DCC solidified the boundaries. It would take a lot of political willpower to make any substantive changes.

The boundaries didn't change when Blair moved. They changed a few years later when Northwood reopened, but that mainly affected the eastern edge of Einstein's boundary, not the area in Kensington.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

The "neighborhood school" is the school your neighborhood goes to.

The "neighborhood school" is the school in your neighborhood that people should go to.

I think these odd boundaries around Einstein HS date back to when Montgomery Blair HS moved out of its old building on Wayne Ave and into its new campus in 4 Corners around 25 years ago. All the high schools needed new boundaries. There’s been intertia ever since and the DCC solidified the boundaries. It would take a lot of political willpower to make any substantive changes.

The boundaries didn't change when Blair moved. They changed a few years later when Northwood reopened, but that mainly affected the eastern edge of Einstein's boundary, not the area in Kensington.

Oh wow. These boundaries probably date to the era when schools were closing left and right in the 70s and 80s, if not before. I hardly see MCPS moving them. BCC and WJ would likely need those neighborhoods in the eastern part of their boundaries to avoid becoming under-enrolled.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

The "neighborhood school" is the school your neighborhood goes to.

The "neighborhood school" is the school in your neighborhood that people should go to.

I think these odd boundaries around Einstein HS date back to when Montgomery Blair HS moved out of its old building on Wayne Ave and into its new campus in 4 Corners around 25 years ago. All the high schools needed new boundaries. There’s been intertia ever since and the DCC solidified the boundaries. It would take a lot of political willpower to make any substantive changes.

The boundaries didn't change when Blair moved. They changed a few years later when Northwood reopened, but that mainly affected the eastern edge of Einstein's boundary, not the area in Kensington.

Oh wow. These boundaries probably date to the era when schools were closing left and right in the 70s and 80s, if not before. I hardly see MCPS moving them. BCC and WJ would likely need those neighborhoods in the eastern part of their boundaries to avoid becoming under-enrolled.

So I don’t see a chance for transformational change re demographics and tweaking the Einstein boundary right now. But maybe if Peary HS reopened, then opportunities for balancing demographics with the boundaries of BCC, WJ, and Einstein would be more feasible.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodward will primarily pull from WJ, but they are using this opportunity to look holistically at all the clusters to help balance utilization and diversity. I suspect in doing so some kids from BCC may move to Whitman and some kids in Whitman may move to WJ or Woodward. BCC kids are not going to end up at Woodward -- it's too far away. That said, walkers are almost always exempt from boundary studies, so buy a house walking distance to the high school (i.e., in East Bethesda) and you'll be fine.

...and the DCC high schools (Wheaton and Einstein in particular)

Do you think some BCC families will end up at Einstein? Some neighborhoods are in fact very close to Einstein. And the school has a good reputation, just not the cachet.

It's possible the northern part of BCC's boundary is much closer to Einstein.

But that north part of the boundary is right where the county just built Silver Creek Middle school, which is part of the BCC cluster. The county was all about making sure the kids in that neighborhood got to walk to middle school. I would find it bizarre if they pulled SCMS out of the BCC cluster only a few years after bringing it online. And pulling just the Kensington kids over to Einstein while the CCES/NCC/RCF kids go to BCC would be highly unusual.

I have to disagree. I think neighborhood school should take priority and busting kids to meet some artificial requirement when there are perfectly serviceable schools nearby makes more sense. Split articulation is also fine when it makes sense
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I would not call Einstein the neighborhood school for the part of Kensington currently zoned for BCC. That part of Kensington is not in the walk zone for Einstein. Maybe you’re thinking of the part of Kensington zoned for WJ that would be in the Einstein walk zone and is in fact closer to Einstein than other Kensington neighborhoods that are zoned for Einstein.

But Einstein is the nearby neighborhood school even if you wish it were different.

The "neighborhood school" is the school your neighborhood goes to.

The "neighborhood school" is the school in your neighborhood that people should go to.

Not every neighborhood has a school in it. Especially not a high school.

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I just saw online that MCPS sold the Peary HS building and land in 2010. So it can’t reopen. Einstein’s catchment area includes the former Peary HS zone in Rockville. So it’s appears to be very unlikely that BCC and WJ neighborhoods would be rezoned to Einstein.

This explains why the Einstein boundaries are so strange.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw online that MCPS sold the Peary HS building and land in 2010. So it can’t reopen. Einstein’s catchment area includes the former Peary HS zone in Rockville. So it’s appears to be very unlikely that BCC and WJ neighborhoods would be rezoned to Einstein.

This explains why the Einstein boundaries are so strange.

How does that follow?

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw online that MCPS sold the Peary HS building and land in 2010. So it can’t reopen. Einstein’s catchment area includes the former Peary HS zone in Rockville. So it’s appears to be very unlikely that BCC and WJ neighborhoods would be rezoned to Einstein.

This explains why the Einstein boundaries are so strange.

I don't think that's true; no one in Rockville is zoned for Einstein. The former Peary areas probably go to Rockville or Wheaton HS now.