When are Woodward boundaries going to be decided?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so woodward will be made up of kids from WJ and einstein?

WJ and Woodward, both will be made up of kids from WJ+DCC.

BOE is not going to simply shift 500 kids from WJ to Woodward and keep all current kids in WJ. This goes against their diversity having more weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy that there are Kensington houses that are a 0.6 mile walk to Einstein but are instead sent to WJ which is 4+ miles away

Kensington is likely to be part of Einstein. It doesn't make any sense to not attend school so close. That's why countywide boundary study will take place. Einstein boundary will change a lot because currently Einstein is overcrowded. KP should surely go to Einstein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so woodward will be made up of kids from WJ and einstein?

WJ and Woodward, both will be made up of kids from WJ+DCC.

BOE is not going to simply shift 500 kids from WJ to Woodward and keep all current kids in WJ. This goes against their diversity having more weight.

It goes against their re-opening Woodward so that Walter Johnson and Einstein aren't so over capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so woodward will be made up of kids from WJ and einstein?

WJ and Woodward, both will be made up of kids from WJ+DCC.

BOE is not going to simply shift 500 kids from WJ to Woodward and keep all current kids in WJ. This goes against their diversity having more weight.

It goes against their re-opening Woodward so that Walter Johnson and Einstein aren't so over capacity.

WJ can be below capacity by first moving 1500 current students to Woodward and then taking 1000 new students from DCC.

[Anonymous]

I’m starting to think the county has underestimated the growth in WJ and BCC clusters. Have you seen the new Chevy Chase Lake development on the new Purple Line? It’s huge and looks very nice, but I assume it feeds to BCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy that there are Kensington houses that are a 0.6 mile walk to Einstein but are instead sent to WJ which is 4+ miles away

Kensington is likely to be part of Einstein. It doesn't make any sense to not attend school so close. That's why countywide boundary study will take place. Einstein boundary will change a lot because currently Einstein is overcrowded. KP should surely go to Einstein.

You could say the same thing about Rock View, Oakland Terrace, and Highland. The only Einstein ESs that aren't "so close" to Einstein are Woodlin and Singer. Unfortunately those are also the farthest from Woodward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m starting to think the county has underestimated the growth in WJ and BCC clusters. Have you seen the new Chevy Chase Lake development on the new Purple Line? It’s huge and looks very nice, but I assume it feeds to BCC.

MCPS will use under projected numbers and within few years we will have over crowding again. But boundaries are going to be decided based on whatever projections MCPS has right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy that there are Kensington houses that are a 0.6 mile walk to Einstein but are instead sent to WJ which is 4+ miles away

Kensington is likely to be part of Einstein. It doesn't make any sense to not attend school so close. That's why countywide boundary study will take place. Einstein boundary will change a lot because currently Einstein is overcrowded. KP should surely go to Einstein.

This is merely a theory on DCUM and not based at all in reality. In reality, Einstein is overcrowded now and projected to get more so. “It doesn’t make any sense” for MCPS to throw a totally unnecessary bomb to move an entire elementary school’s worth of kids into an already overcrowded school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so woodward will be made up of kids from WJ and einstein?

WJ and Woodward, both will be made up of kids from WJ+DCC.

BOE is not going to simply shift 500 kids from WJ to Woodward and keep all current kids in WJ. This goes against their diversity having more weight.

It goes against their re-opening Woodward so that Walter Johnson and Einstein aren't so over capacity.

WJ can be below capacity by first moving 1500 current students to Woodward and then taking 1000 new students from DCC.

Woodward's capacity will be 2700. You'd have to move all of the current Walter Johnson students to Woodward. And then move students from Einstein to an emptied Walter Johnson? What would be the sense in that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy that there are Kensington houses that are a 0.6 mile walk to Einstein but are instead sent to WJ which is 4+ miles away

Kensington is likely to be part of Einstein. It doesn't make any sense to not attend school so close. That's why countywide boundary study will take place. Einstein boundary will change a lot because currently Einstein is overcrowded. KP should surely go to Einstein.

You could say the same thing about Rock View, Oakland Terrace, and Highland. The only Einstein ESs that aren't "so close" to Einstein are Woodlin and Singer. Unfortunately those are also the farthest from Woodward.

One way or another, we are going to see schools with totally different boundaries. That's why we are having this consultant looking at county level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy that there are Kensington houses that are a 0.6 mile walk to Einstein but are instead sent to WJ which is 4+ miles away

Kensington is likely to be part of Einstein. It doesn't make any sense to not attend school so close. That's why countywide boundary study will take place. Einstein boundary will change a lot because currently Einstein is overcrowded. KP should surely go to Einstein.

This is merely a theory on DCUM and not based at all in reality. In reality, Einstein is overcrowded now and projected to get more so. “It doesn’t make any sense” for MCPS to throw a totally unnecessary bomb to move an entire elementary school’s worth of kids into an already overcrowded school.

Einstein won't be overcrowded once some of Einstein gets moved to Woodward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so woodward will be made up of kids from WJ and einstein?

WJ and Woodward, both will be made up of kids from WJ+DCC.

BOE is not going to simply shift 500 kids from WJ to Woodward and keep all current kids in WJ. This goes against their diversity having more weight.

It goes against their re-opening Woodward so that Walter Johnson and Einstein aren't so over capacity.

WJ can be below capacity by first moving 1500 current students to Woodward and then taking 1000 new students from DCC.

Woodward's capacity will be 2700. You'd have to move all of the current Walter Johnson students to Woodward. And then move students from Einstein to an emptied Walter Johnson? What would be the sense in that?

Why do you need to move entire WJ to Wooward. You will move half of WJ to Woodward. Then fill Woodward and WJ from DCC ES's. That way demography will be balanced with capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy that there are Kensington houses that are a 0.6 mile walk to Einstein but are instead sent to WJ which is 4+ miles away

Kensington is likely to be part of Einstein. It doesn't make any sense to not attend school so close. That's why countywide boundary study will take place. Einstein boundary will change a lot because currently Einstein is overcrowded. KP should surely go to Einstein.

You could say the same thing about Rock View, Oakland Terrace, and Highland. The only Einstein ESs that aren't "so close" to Einstein are Woodlin and Singer. Unfortunately those are also the farthest from Woodward.

One way or another, we are going to see schools with totally different boundaries. That's why we are having this consultant looking at county level.

No. There is a countywide analysis of boundaries going on. That is entirely separate from the boundary study that will happen before Woodward opens and that will (based on current CIP) involve Walter Johnson and the DCC.

[Anonymous]

And aren’t they adding apartments where the Sears used to be in Montgomery Mall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m starting to think the county has underestimated the growth in WJ and BCC clusters. Have you seen the new Chevy Chase Lake development on the new Purple Line? It’s huge and looks very nice, but I assume it feeds to BCC.

MCPS will use under projected numbers and within few years we will have over crowding again. But boundaries are going to be decided based on whatever projections MCPS has right now.

Or, whatever projections MCPS has in 2024, which is when the boundary study will be.