RFP for county-wide boundary analysis
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Anonymous
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The RFP is out, available here: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/procurement/uploads/4886.1/4886.1%20RFP%20FINAL%20.pdf
And a Bethesda Beat story about it is here: https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-releases-outline-for-scope-of-countywide-school-boundary-analysis/ I haven't read the RFP  but from the Bethesda Beat story, it sounds very reasonable.
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Anonymous
What is the color coding on this map in the article?
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Anonymous
I was wondering the same but I couldn't get any information on that from the article or the image itself. I don't know if MCPS color coded it or if BB did that themselves. |
Anonymous
The caption says exiting HS clusters. |
Anonymous
Yes, but the black lines delineate existing HS clusters. The colors that group 4-6 HS clusters together are not explained. |
Anonymous
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It says "Image Via MCPS."
I did a reverse Google image search and found this: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/career-readiness/map-consortium.aspx |
Anonymous
Oops, forgot to add that I think the magazine added the colors to group geographic areas. |
Anonymous
^^ I guess it's more like 2-5 than 4-6. Clearly the DCC and NEC are each one of the colors, but how the others are grouped is not explained. |
Anonymous
| Why are the Blake/Springbrook boundaries so funky? |
Anonymous
Yes, but clusters each have their own feeder patterns - minus exceptions for the DCC, NEC and magnets. See below: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/clusteradmin/clusters/index.aspx I'm wondering if they're first looking at rezoning by general geographic area first. For example, there's northern part that is dark (slate?) blue - Damascus, Clarksburg, Gaithersburg and Watkins Mill. WMHS is 50% FARMs, which is incredibly high. GHS has 40% FARMs, which is nothing to sneeze out. DHS is low, and CHS is about average However, I do believe that with the re-opening of SVHS, the numbers for CHS may even be lower, as there are boundary overlaps between CHS and SVHS. So the county could shuffle around kids in general geographic areas w/o disrupting transportation patterns too much. However, the dark gray with the high-performing schools is still untouched. I can't imagine that redistricting in that area would have much of an impact - and same could be said for the NEC and DCC, which are highly-impacted schools (or the opposite case). just my thinking |
Anonymous
When Blake was built, it was placed in an area with no real feeder patterns. So they rezoned during the creation of the NEC in an effort to keep demographics balanced. |
Anonymous
still doesn't make sense, as the schools for each special program (side bar, left) are all over the place and not necessarily by the color coding on the map |
Anonymous
Well, there you go. That's where they got it from! It's a funny picture because the "Key" shows the colors that match up to the DCC and NEC, but shows no information for the other colors! But this confirms that the graphic was not created for anything related to the boundary analysis and so the colors basically mean nothing. |
Anonymous
Actually, the title of the website says "Proposed Regions." So I would not automatically dismiss the color coding as being completely unrelated to boundary analysis. |
Anonymous
I'm the PP who first asked about this image. I, too, thought maybe it was proposed adjacent cluster they were looking at when drawing boundaries. Per BOE resolution, they will now look at neighboring clusters when drawing boundaries, so maybe this is what they are thinking. But, I wasn't sure. |