Anyone have thoughts on the boundary study for G'burg and Sherwood?
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Anonymous
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Here's the brief description regarding an upcoming meeting later this month:
The Montgomery County Board of Education has authorized a boundary study to review the school assignments for the Unity area from the Gaithersburg Cluster to the Sherwood Cluster. The scope of this boundary study is limited. The area that will be considered for change includes areas east of, but not including, Howard Chapel Road from the county border in the north to Hawlings River Regional Park (also known as Rachel Carson Conservation Park) in the south, and east to the boundary line between the Gaithersburg and Sherwood clusters. This includes only Unity area students from Laytonsville Elementary School, Gaithersburg Middle School, and Gaithersburg High School. The potential new assignments would be Greenwood Elementary School, Rosa M. Parks Middle School, and Sherwood High School. Anyone have any background on this? |
Anonymous
It's a very small number of affected students that would send them out of overcrowded middle and high schools into under-enrolled middle and high schools. I am actually surprised that they aren't considering assigning these students to Damascus cluster schools, given the geography. They've been talking about this for years and nothing has ever happened on it. Who knows if this time will be different..... |
Anonymous
| None of the schools they are currently in are overcrowded, 10:20. So I don't think that is right. |
Anonymous
| I'm in the cluster, but not affected by the study. As previous poster mentioned, it's a very small neighborhood of houses. I believe it's due to the amount of time those kids spend on the bus to get to Gaithersburg HS. These are kids who live quite a bit north of Laytonsville/Olney near the Howard county border. |
Anonymous
| Op here. After further research, I'm surprised this neighborhood wasn't already in our cluster. I actually know a family that lives in that neighborhood, and their kids attended Greenwood/Rosa/Sherwood. Wonder if they got a COSA? |
Anonymous
| Tons of kids out that way get COSA's to Sherwood. G'Burg HS sucks. |
Anonymous
Great Schools rates Gaithersburg a 6 and Sherwood a 5... |
Anonymous
Strange. I looked at Sherwood's rating about a month ago and it was a 7 on Great Schools. Wonder if there's something wonky with the testing scores ....It's got a good reputation. |
Anonymous
They both kind of seriously suck, you're just partial to Sherwood. 99% of the county wouldn't send their kids to either on a dare. |
Anonymous
? 99%? You seriously can't put Sherwood or Gaithersburg below Wheaton, Kennedy, Blake or Paint Branch (although Blake is better than G). You can legitimately debate where they fall as compared to Rockville and Einstein (socioeconomically speaking, Sherwood is certainly more affluent and whiter than R, E or G). People scramble to get COSAs from G to S...that says something. |
Anonymous
Since there are 25 HSs in MoCo about 8% currently attend those two school.. |
Anonymous
Wheaton HS is a GS 6, so I seriously put it ahead of Sherwood. |
Anonymous
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GS is completely meaningless.
Smart kids do well anywhere as long as they are in a safe environment. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Great school scores are meaningless. I do not put much stock into them. The boundary change will only affect a small number of current students. However there is a lot of farmland that is going to be sold and I'm assuming turned into houses. That means a lot more students at Sherwood. |