Concerned about buying in WJ cluster because of re-zoning

[Anonymous]

Nice long discussion on the MCPS forum:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1114980.page

[Anonymous]

are (some) kids from the WJ cluster going to go to Woodward only or can they be rezoned to some of the other schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:are (some) kids from the WJ cluster going to go to Woodward only or can they be rezoned to some of the other schools?

They can be rezoned to Woodward or any of the adjacent schools included in the boundary study scope (BCC, Whitman, Wheaton, Einstein).

[Anonymous]

what are the odds homes east of rockville pike are going to end there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what are the odds homes east of rockville pike are going to end there?

It's all a guessing game at this point, but it seems a pretty safe bet that Garrett Park and Luxmanor will be rezoned to Woodward, and they both extend east of Rockville Pike.

[Anonymous]

Buy with a mile of a HS to have a really good chance of staying in it's boundary.

[Anonymous]

WJ sucks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BCC is much better option than WJ. WJ will become a diluted WJ school as far as test scores are concerned and even without that I will pick BCC.

Don’t have a great impression of B-CC. Weird mix of uber-wealthy and poors, and open campus where you just know kids are leaving school and getting high. WJ seems a bit more traditional with more normal kids.

You actually just made BCC sound like the coolest school in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why people will think having their house zoned for Woodward will make their property values go down. A new school with a clean slate that doesn't even have a reputation yet. If anything, that should increase your property values. Your real estate agent can say "zoned for new state-of-the-art Woodward HS!" in the listing and all the out of area families will jump on your house.

Rather than acting like you're doomed for being zoned for a brand new high school in one of the richest counties in America, put your effort towards being involved in Woodward and ensuring that the school has the reputation you want it to have the day it opens. The good thing about being rezoned to a brand new school is that you and your children will define the school's culture, choose its mission, and will direct the path it takes. How good Woodward will or will not be will be is in your hands. Woodward easily has the potential to be one of the best high and most sought-after schools in MCPS if the families who are rezoned to it have a positive outlook towards the school. Woodward being brand new makes it so much easier.

Some of you guys are acting like having DCC kids attend your kids' school will give it the cheese touch from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. BCC has a mix of affluent and higher poverty elementary schools feeding into as well, and guess what? It's still a wonderful school and people pay $$$ to send their kids to BCC. My guess is that Woodward will be similar to BCC demographically. And as others have mentioned, Woodward is in a popping area of MoCo, and it's going to pull from some of the wealthiest areas in MoCo. If UMC DCC families who get rezoned to Woodward pull their kids out of private and send their kids to Woodward, and WJ families approach Woodward positively and they all work hard to get involved in the school and invest in a community around it rather than abandoning a school that has a higher number of POC children, Woodward will be on par with other "W" schools.

[Anonymous]

we are involved parents, and not interested in private. however, when you put most of your net worth in a home because it's in a good school district you don't want that money to evaporate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WJ sucks

<3 WJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WJ sucks

Wow, thanks for your informative opinion.

[Anonymous]

The biggest threat to Woodward’s reputation and thus its correlative value to property values will be if they include it in the DCC. Even the potential of it filling up with kids trying to opt out of silver spring schools will scare many parents away.

[Anonymous]

so buy across the street from WJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s my prediction: New Woodward = Veirs Mill ES, Farmland, Garrett Park, Luxmanor + performing arts magnet + a little extra capacity for growth. I saw that Veirs Mills puts on their own musicals twice a year. They are a Blue Ribbon School and even received a visit from Pres. Obama a few years back. Sounds like they have teachers who do everything right for their kids. They’ll fit right in with the Tilden kids. Woodward is going to be a very special place.

I’ll let the rest of you speculate about what happens to K-P, Einstein etc.

Good call on makeup of Woodward, but if that happens KP would definitely go to WJ because if it didn’t WJ would only have two ESs left (Ashburton and Wyndgate).

And? More ES' could be added to WJ from BCC or Whitman.