Concerned about buying in WJ cluster because of re-zoning

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Anonymous wrote:By that time WJ could have close to 3,000 kids with all the growth. Plus kids for new countywide magnet at Woodward. Not sure why anyone thinks there would be room to move any entire ES over to either WJ or Woodward.

Woodward will have capacity of 2700.

Woodward+ WJ will have capacity of 5K+


There will be enough empty seats in Woodward+WJ to take couple of ES from DCC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:By that time WJ could have close to 3,000 kids with all the growth. Plus kids for new countywide magnet at Woodward. Not sure why anyone thinks there would be room to move any entire ES over to either WJ or Woodward.

This.

who is talking about moving what ES to WJ or Woodward?

The original proposal was for Woodward to relieve overcrowding in some of the DCC clusters, presumably by taking students currently zoned for, most likely, Einstein and/or Wheaton. For example, maybe kids that go to Rock View, Oakland Terrace, and Viers Mill would be rezoned to Woodward and WJ.

What PPs are saying, though, is that by the time Woodward opens for WJ students, the enrollment at WJ is going to be so high (I've seen as high as 3,500 by 2025 predicted), that there will be little, if any, capacity at either school to take students from other high schools.

I'm looking at P-K area and don't want to be rezoned to Einstein. Woodward I can deal with.

If this is your attitude, just stick with Whitman or Churchill. Please.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:By that time WJ could have close to 3,000 kids with all the growth. Plus kids for new countywide magnet at Woodward. Not sure why anyone thinks there would be room to move any entire ES over to either WJ or Woodward.

Woodward will have capacity of 2700.

Woodward+ WJ will have capacity of 5K+


There will be enough empty seats in Woodward+WJ to take couple of ES from DCC.

And are the middle schools going to have the capacity to welcome two other elementaries?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:By that time WJ could have close to 3,000 kids with all the growth. Plus kids for new countywide magnet at Woodward. Not sure why anyone thinks there would be room to move any entire ES over to either WJ or Woodward.

Woodward will have capacity of 2700.

Woodward+ WJ will have capacity of 5K+


There will be enough empty seats in Woodward+WJ to take couple of ES from DCC.

And are the middle schools going to have the capacity to welcome two other elementaries?

No. So there would need to be split articulation.

[Anonymous]

There will likely be a performing arts magnet too at Woodward. Not sure how many seats for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There will likely be a performing arts magnet too at Woodward. Not sure how many seats for that.

If it's really big then it will take up some seats otherwise , it's safe to assume that WJ and Woodward both will take 2 ES each from DCC to balance demography and capacity. KP is just 0.6 miles from Einstein so it's almost certain that it will go to Einstein to balance geography, demography and performance.

Everyone wants to avoid busing and KP going to Einstein to attend neighborhood school will avoid long distance busing.

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Anonymous wrote:By that time WJ could have close to 3,000 kids with all the growth. Plus kids for new countywide magnet at Woodward. Not sure why anyone thinks there would be room to move any entire ES over to either WJ or Woodward.

Woodward will have capacity of 2700.

Woodward+ WJ will have capacity of 5K+


There will be enough empty seats in Woodward+WJ to take couple of ES from DCC.

And are the middle schools going to have the capacity to welcome two other elementaries?

Split articulation. It exist in Churchill and Wootton ES.

[Anonymous]

If KP is zoned for Einstein, will the DCC school
Choice to einstein-Blair-north wood-Wheaton-Kennedy still be available?

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Anonymous wrote:By that time WJ could have close to 3,000 kids with all the growth. Plus kids for new countywide magnet at Woodward. Not sure why anyone thinks there would be room to move any entire ES over to either WJ or Woodward.

This.

who is talking about moving what ES to WJ or Woodward?

The original proposal was for Woodward to relieve overcrowding in some of the DCC clusters, presumably by taking students currently zoned for, most likely, Einstein and/or Wheaton. For example, maybe kids that go to Rock View, Oakland Terrace, and Viers Mill would be rezoned to Woodward and WJ.

What PPs are saying, though, is that by the time Woodward opens for WJ students, the enrollment at WJ is going to be so high (I've seen as high as 3,500 by 2025 predicted), that there will be little, if any, capacity at either school to take students from other high schools.

I'm looking at P-K area and don't want to be rezoned to Einstein. Woodward I can deal with.

If this is your attitude, just stick with Whitman or Churchill. Please.

If P-K is rezoned for Einstein, the house prices (especially the over 1m) will drop. Just a fact. I can understand why people would be pissed if that happened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will likely be a performing arts magnet too at Woodward. Not sure how many seats for that.

If it's really big then it will take up some seats otherwise , it's safe to assume that WJ and Woodward both will take 2 ES each from DCC to balance demography and capacity. KP is just 0.6 miles from Einstein so it's almost certain that it will go to Einstein to balance geography, demography and performance.

Everyone wants to avoid busing and KP going to Einstein to attend neighborhood school will avoid long distance busing.

K-P is ~2.5 miles to Einstein. (It is also ~2.5 miles to WJ.) Nothing is "almost certain" at this point. But let's meet back here in 2024 to discuss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If KP is zoned for Einstein, will the DCC school
Choice to einstein-Blair-north wood-Wheaton-Kennedy still be available?

We don't know yet how moving ESs in or out of the DCC will affect anything.

[Anonymous]

We also don’t know what Woodward’s construction phases will look like or how big the magnet program will be. I think Blair has 100 per grade in their program. We really don’t know anything at all, just the Northwood will be there through 2025.

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Anonymous wrote:There will likely be a performing arts magnet too at Woodward. Not sure how many seats for that.

If it's really big then it will take up some seats otherwise , it's safe to assume that WJ and Woodward both will take 2 ES each from DCC to balance demography and capacity. KP is just 0.6 miles from Einstein so it's almost certain that it will go to Einstein to balance geography, demography and performance.

Everyone wants to avoid busing and KP going to Einstein to attend neighborhood school will avoid long distance busing.

K-P is ~2.5 miles to Einstein. (It is also ~2.5 miles to WJ.) Nothing is "almost certain" at this point. But let's meet back here in 2024 to discuss.

This is being covered in the MD Schools thread. KP is around 2.5 miles to both WJ and Einstein. However, Einstein has to take out an elementary feeder to accomodate KP (Einstein is overcrowded) and any ES Einstein can take out is 5 to 7 miles from WJ or Woodward. It makes absolutely no sense to do that.

Woodward will take some Tilden MS zoned middle schools and Veirs Mill ES. Since Veirs Mill ES is zoned for Wheaton, a Einstein ES (probably Highland, since it’s right next to Wheaton HS) can go to Wheaton to alleviate Einstein crowding.

Whatever happens, even if KP goes to Einstein they will have to take a ES out of Einstein and all the relatively poor performing ESs are the ones closest to WJ and Woodward so Einstein will become a much better school. If it’s KP, Singer, Woodlin, Oakland Terrace and Rock View at Einstein that’s a pretty good high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We also don’t know what Woodward’s construction phases will look like or how big the magnet program will be. I think Blair has 100 per grade in their program. We really don’t know anything at all, just the Northwood will be there through 2025.

Exactly. They could delay until 2027 or even 2030, who knows. Houses will be a lot more by then in WJ just based off its proximity to transit, development and DC. Worrying about taking a loss on a real estate investment based on a boundary change that you’re unsure about 6 to even 10 years out is bonkers.

[Anonymous]

But some K-P kids live less than a mile from Einstein and far closer to a school like Rock View (where my kid went on the school bus passing houses where kids went to K-P) or Oakland Terrace.

That never made sense to me.