Tuckahoe by the numbers - how can it stay a neighborhood school?
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Anonymous
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Please check my math but I really don't see how Tuckahoe can continue as a neighborhood school. Just by looking at a map it doesn't look good.
Current Enrollment 528 K-5 students (Or 541 PreK-5) There just will not be many left once Reed opens up : Walkable to Reed - 186 Students 16040 - 37 16050 - 42 16060 - 41 16061 - 66 Bus to McKinley - 163 (because McKinley will send 281+ walkers to Reed) 16130 - 41 16121 - 10 16120 - 17 16110 - 54 16101 - ~5 16100 - 36 Walkable to Nottingham - 74 (because Nottingham will send 84 16070 walkers to Reed) 16030 - 38 16031 - 36 186 + 74 + 163 = 423 students to Reed / Nottingham / McKinley. Currently enrollment at Tuckahoe is 528 K-5 (or 541 PreK-5) 528 - 423 = 105 left at Tuckahoe There will be plenty of space for the 16020/16021/16022 PUs at Reed / Nottingham / McKinley because of the students that go to Tuckahoe as an Option. Finally if any additional space is needed a few PUs can change in the Discovery / Glebe area. What is the best option for Tuckahoe? Any alternatives seem to cause havoc across much of NW Arlington. How can we minimize student impact? |
Anonymous
| It looks like you omitted 16140 (14 students), which is near McKinley and 16022 (38 students), which is walkable to Nottingham. If you send 17030 and 17031 from Nottingham to Discovery, that frees up another 43 seats at Nottingham to comfortably take 16022. |
Anonymous
| Nottingham could easily be converted to option as well. |
Anonymous
I'm open to that, but why don't you run the numbers to show where all of the PUs would go? |
Anonymous
| Nottingham dun like to leave Nottingham |
Anonymous
| Why do you have to poke the bear? Tuckahoe parents are already mobilizing against every other school in the NW. |
Anonymous
| I think this is a start, but I don't think you can just leave roughly 80 kids out there without figuring out where they'd go and call that a viable solution. 59 of those kids live in a single planning unit (16020), that's not a number you just squeeze in someplace. |
Anonymous
| 16130 is also within the potential expanded walk zone to Reed. |
Anonymous
I'm sure if the SB actually proposes moving option schools, the public comments at the meetings will be epic. Can't wait. |
Anonymous
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful analysis.
Can you run that for Nottingham now? Because almost every last one of their walkers can walk to Discovery or Tuckahoe. Plus 70+ of their bus riders can walk to Tuckahoe too. |
Anonymous
Are we placing bets on T-shirt colors? |
Anonymous
How about you do it, Tuckahoe parent? |
Anonymous
+1. Seriously. |
Anonymous
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Sigh - Tuckahoe really just isn't in a very walkable location. I really feel for the Tuckahoe families in these challenging times.
To be viable as a neighborhood school, Tuckahoe needs the students below Lee highway and across 66. But all of those students can easily walk to Reed or ride to McKinley/Reed. |
Anonymous
| Everyone's walkers could ride a bus somewhere. What is 14:15 even saying? Tuckahoe has 190 current walkers not going to Reed or McKinley in any scenario. More than bunch of schools according to the APS maps. |