Concerned about buying in WJ cluster because of re-zoning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can make Broom a holding school. If Rockville goes to 150% WJ will be overcrowded faster. No decision on when Woodward will open until next Oct when the CIP comes out and they decide if Woodward will be a holding school for Northwood or not. If yes, Woodward will open in 2025, boundary study 18 months before. If no, will open in 2023, boundary study still 18 months before opening.

And those dates are contingent upon the construction at Woodward being complete by 2023 and possibly the construction at Northwood being complete by 2025.

[Anonymous]

Given what I have heard, Farmland ES is too over crowded and Luxmanor may not have enough capacity to solve this.

Which ES schools in WJ are not over crowded?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given what I have heard, Farmland ES is too over crowded and Luxmanor may not have enough capacity to solve this.

Which ES schools in WJ are not over crowded?

Kensington-Parkwood and Wyngate.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP20_Chap4_WJ.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given what I have heard, Farmland ES is too over crowded and Luxmanor may not have enough capacity to solve this.

Which ES schools in WJ are not over crowded?

Kensington-Parkwood and Wyngate.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP20_Chap4_WJ.pdf

Thanks.

There was talk about a new ES in Bethesa Chevy Chase and WJ. Is it being funded?

[Anonymous]

It's a capacity study (with WJ and BCC, supposed to happen this spring). Meanwhile WJ already did site selection last year. Capacity study is a waste of time, they need to get started building the next ES!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a capacity study (with WJ and BCC, supposed to happen this spring). Meanwhile WJ already did site selection last year. Capacity study is a waste of time, they need to get started building the next ES!

Agree here. With so much over crowding and so many new development in pipeline, they should have been already building a new ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a capacity study (with WJ and BCC, supposed to happen this spring). Meanwhile WJ already did site selection last year. Capacity study is a waste of time, they need to get started building the next ES!

What's the site for ES?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a capacity study (with WJ and BCC, supposed to happen this spring). Meanwhile WJ already did site selection last year. Capacity study is a waste of time, they need to get started building the next ES!

What's the site for ES?

The site selection report recommended the Grosvenor Center, but if they make that into a new ES, they'll lose that site as a holding facility. I think they'd rather not do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It would be great if the West county parents got a STEM Magnet of their own at Woodward and didn't have to send their kids all the way to Blair. But it would be shocking if they did that as the whole point of the Blair Magnet was to convince west county parents to send their kids east to prop up test scores and self integrate that school. It would be strange to unravel that after all these years.

It mostly likely will be a slightly different watered down program like Wheaton or CAP

I hope Woodward does get a program like Wheaton's magnets or CAP. Both great programs. MCPS is very good at building and supporting magnet programs.

Maybe two years ago there was a survey that asked what parents wanted from Woodward. I remember maybe 10 choices, in addition to "regular local public high school." The ones that stick out in my mind were some sort of vocational program (which I think Tomas Edison is now housing), a girls-only STEM magnet, and a performing arts magnet.

I don't know if any of those are still in play, but that was the discussion at the time. An audition-based performing arts magnet would be a wonderful addition to the MCPS options, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a capacity study (with WJ and BCC, supposed to happen this spring). Meanwhile WJ already did site selection last year. Capacity study is a waste of time, they need to get started building the next ES!

What's the site for ES?

The site selection report recommended the Grosvenor Center, but if they make that into a new ES, they'll lose that site as a holding facility. I think they'd rather not do that.

Is there any other site? They have to build some where.

[Anonymous]

Yes there are several other sites - over 10 were on the site selection list. Things shift a bit since BCC is in the mix and the Grosvenor site may no longer work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are several other sites - over 10 were on the site selection list. Things shift a bit since BCC is in the mix and the Grosvenor site may no longer work.

BCC isn't in the Mix, It already has taken on it's fair share of low income kids

[Anonymous]

BCC IS most definitely in the mix for the elementary school capacity study.

[Anonymous]

Audition only performing arts magnet at new Woodward would be amazing. They would get so many applicants. So many WJ kids already do theater/music etc. Would it be like Duke Ellington in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are several other sites - over 10 were on the site selection list. Things shift a bit since BCC is in the mix and the Grosvenor site may no longer work.

BCC isn't in the Mix, It already has taken on it's fair share of low income kids

Yes it is. Read the CIP:

Planning Study: A Site Selection Committee was held in
spring 2018, to identify possible sites for a new elementary
school in the Walter Johnson Cluster. The projected space
deficits at the elementary school level in the cluster are not sufficient
to recommend a new elementary school for the Walter
Johnson Cluster at this time. The adopted CIP includes a capacity
study for the elementary schools in the Bethesda-Chevy
Chase Cluster. The superintendent recommends expanding
the capacity study to explore possible solutions that would
include the elementary schools in both the Walter Johnson
and Bethesda-Chevy Chase clusters. Once the capacity study
is complete, a recommendation to address the overutilization
at the elementary school level in both clusters will be included
for consideration in the next CIP. The revitalization/expansion
project for Luxmanor Elementary School includes additional
capacity to allow for the reassignment of students to address
a portion of the overutilization at the elementary school
level in the Walter Johnson Cluster. A boundary study will
be considered once the capacity study is complete in order
to make holistic decisions for all of the elementary schools in
both the Walter Johnson and Bethesda-Chevy Chase clusters.