Why are ES schools in affluent areas all of sudden under enrolled ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that you might benefit from a nice conversation from some parents of elementary school students in the Richard Montgomery cluster.

Or, if that's not affluent enough for you, some parents at Bethesda ES or Burning Tree ES. Both schools are at 128% of capacity.

Richard Montgomery affluent??? LOL. It is like an inner city school with some middle class. No affuent kids there.

There are $1.4M townhomes in the RM cluster. There's definitely some affluence in that cluster.

Nah, only the poors live in $1.4 million townhouses.

(I am not being sincere.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that you might benefit from a nice conversation from some parents of elementary school students in the Richard Montgomery cluster.

Or, if that's not affluent enough for you, some parents at Bethesda ES or Burning Tree ES. Both schools are at 128% of capacity.

Richard Montgomery affluent??? LOL. It is like an inner city school with some middle class. No affuent kids there.

There are $1.4M townhomes in the RM cluster. There's definitely some affluence in that cluster.

BS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it 2.0?

In my area, where I live there are not fewer kids just more people doing private. Those parents say its 2.0. I have an older and younger child. While I agree that my older child received a far better education than my younger child is receiving now, I'm surprised this is having as big an impact in some areas. Our school is down to only 2 K and 1 st grade classes and keeps losing staff because of under enrollment.

You are affluent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think there is a trend of doing private K and move back to the public school for first grade.

I know of three are planning doing that this year.

I know a few families who are doing this also and the kids have early to mid year birthdays. I don't understand the private K choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that you might benefit from a nice conversation from some parents of elementary school students in the Richard Montgomery cluster.

Or, if that's not affluent enough for you, some parents at Bethesda ES or Burning Tree ES. Both schools are at 128% of capacity.

Richard Montgomery affluent??? LOL. It is like an inner city school with some middle class. No affuent kids there.

There are $1.4M townhomes in the RM cluster. There's definitely some affluence in that cluster.

BS

Park Potomac?

[Anonymous]

Kings Farm in RM cluster has 2 homes at 1mil for sale right now. I imagine some of the newer developments go even higher.

[Anonymous]

Poster from "affluent" Kentlands here, our school is definitely not shrinking. We are up to 7 K classes and school is 300+ over capacity.

[Anonymous]

Carderock Springs ES is over capacity.

[Anonymous]

Folks, OP is in Churchill or Wootton cluster. My guess is Churchill. OP is asking specifically about Churchill cluster. The homes in that cluster are typically more expensive than RM cluster or Kentlands. Maybe the folks in Churchill cluster make more so they can afford private, whereas these other areas, although the homes are $, the typical income could not also pay for private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks, OP is in Churchill or Wootton cluster. My guess is Churchill. OP is asking specifically about Churchill cluster. The homes in that cluster are typically more expensive than RM cluster or Kentlands. Maybe the folks in Churchill cluster make more so they can afford private, whereas these other areas, although the homes are $, the typical income could not also pay for private.

Carderock Springs is in the Whitman cluster. What's your explanation there?

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/CarderockSpringsES.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poster from "affluent" Kentlands here, our school is definitely not shrinking. We are up to 7 K classes and school is 300+ over capacity.

Wow! Does MCPS have any plans of adding additional classes or building another elementary school in the area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks, OP is in Churchill or Wootton cluster. My guess is Churchill. OP is asking specifically about Churchill cluster. The homes in that cluster are typically more expensive than RM cluster or Kentlands. Maybe the folks in Churchill cluster make more so they can afford private, whereas these other areas, although the homes are $, the typical income could not also pay for private.

Carderock Springs is in the Whitman cluster. What's your explanation there?

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/CarderockSpringsES.pdf

I don't have an explanation for either Whitman or Churchill cluster that OP is in. We're all public and will remain so. I'm just re-iterating to folks that this issue is specific to Churchill (per OP), not the other clusters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poster from "affluent" Kentlands here, our school is definitely not shrinking. We are up to 7 K classes and school is 300+ over capacity.

Wow! Does MCPS have any plans of adding additional classes or building another elementary school in the area?

Probably not because it doesn't appear that MCPS sees massive over crowding as a big issue enough to either start the ball rolling for redistricting or change the CIP to address it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poster from "affluent" Kentlands here, our school is definitely not shrinking. We are up to 7 K classes and school is 300+ over capacity.

Wow! Does MCPS have any plans of adding additional classes or building another elementary school in the area?

Probably not because it doesn't appear that MCPS sees massive over crowding as a big issue enough to either start the ball rolling for redistricting or change the CIP to address it.

The CIP already does address massive overcrowding -- though not at Rachel Carson ES, which is at 144% of capacity and was completed in 1990. In the Quince Orchard cluster, in the current CIP through 2020, Brown Station ES will be renovated/modernized for 2017-2018 (a one-year delay from the previous plan). Brown Station ES is at 120% of capacity and was completed in 1969.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP15CH4_QuinceOrchard.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kings Farm in RM cluster has 2 homes at 1mil for sale right now. I imagine some of the newer developments go even higher.

King Farm is not in RM district. Park Potomac barely gets to 1mil and their owned by empty nesters or multi-family Asian families living together. Lets get back to real affluent areas.