Concerned about buying in WJ cluster because of re-zoning

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which elementary feeder do people think is the safest in respect to WJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:which elementary feeder do people think is the safest in respect to WJ?

The safest bet to remain at WJ? Ashburton, since it surrounds WJ itself.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I am a UMC DCC parent with kids going to private. Most of us can afford to live in Bethesda but don't want to send our kids to public school. Not everybody thinks that "W" schools in MCPS are the holy grail of education. Woodward doesn't need people to pull their kids out of private to be a good school. It will mainly pull from North Bethesda (even if they add it to the DCC). It will offer a similar education and experience to other Bethesda area public high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:which elementary feeder do people think is the safest in respect to WJ?

1000% it's Ashburton.... most likely Wyngate too, but definitely Ashburton.

Ashburton is literally across the street from WJ.

[Anonymous]

New boundary studies are out. Home prices in Kensington are about to go higher.

https://sites.google.com/mcpsmd.net/woodward-boundary-options/home

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Anonymous wrote:New boundary studies are out. Home prices in Kensington are about to go higher.

https://sites.google.com/mcpsmd.net/woodward-boundary-options/home

Where do you think prices will go down?

[Anonymous]

Area zoned for Woodward currently attends WJ.

Woodward having twice the FARMS rate means, any area zoned for Woodward should have downward pressure.

30% FARMS is way different school than WJ.

[Anonymous]

Decision is not made yet.

MCPS can pick a new option as final one or one of the 8 option listed so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Decision is not made yet.

MCPS can pick a new option as final one or one of the 8 option listed so far.

Not true. The first four have been discarded because of community pressure.

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Anonymous wrote:Area zoned for Woodward currently attends WJ.

Woodward having twice the FARMS rate means, any area zoned for Woodward should have downward pressure.

30% FARMS is way different school than WJ.

I mean, WJ is at about 20% and extremely overcrowded. 30% in a brand new facility where kids can walk through the halls and make sports teams sounds nice.

[Anonymous]

If it’s any solace, in 10 years when AI has taken everyone’s white collar job the Whitman FARMS will be 50% too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Area zoned for Woodward currently attends WJ.

Woodward having twice the FARMS rate means, any area zoned for Woodward should have downward pressure.

30% FARMS is way different school than WJ.

I mean, WJ is at about 20% and extremely overcrowded. 30% in a brand new facility where kids can walk through the halls and make sports teams sounds nice.

+ a really nice performing arts program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Decision is not made yet.

MCPS can pick a new option as final one or one of the 8 option listed so far.

Not true. The first four have been discarded because of community pressure.

That's not correct. MCPS have direct responce to this question earlier. They can pick any of those 8 options or a new option. They have not discarded anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Area zoned for Woodward currently attends WJ.

Woodward having twice the FARMS rate means, any area zoned for Woodward should have downward pressure.

30% FARMS is way different school than WJ.

I mean, WJ is at about 20% and extremely overcrowded. 30% in a brand new facility where kids can walk through the halls and make sports teams sounds nice.

WJ is getting split in two HS.

One will have 15%
Another will have 30%

Take your pick, where housing will be doing better. That was the question. 50% increase in FARMS rate is a lot. 20->30->40 it becomes a slipperly slope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Area zoned for Woodward currently attends WJ.

Woodward having twice the FARMS rate means, any area zoned for Woodward should have downward pressure.

30% FARMS is way different school than WJ.

I mean, WJ is at about 20% and extremely overcrowded. 30% in a brand new facility where kids can walk through the halls and make sports teams sounds nice.

WJ is getting split in two HS.

One will have 15%
Another will have 30%

Take your pick, where housing will be doing better. That was the question. 50% increase in FARMS rate is a lot. 20->30->40 it becomes a slipperly slope.

Let’s get the facts right. Today WJ has about 20% FARMS. Under the newer options, WJ ends up with about 15% and Woodward somewhere just south of 30%.