APS: Address Confirmation Project 5th & 8th grade students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reviving this because of the ARLnow article about middle school boundaries today. https://www.arlnow.com/2023/09/28/aps-to-pause-middle-school-boundary-process-for-one-year/#more-304509

Apparently Gunston is now down to 2 students over design capacity, so 994, from last year's September enrollment of 1072. They explicitly said the drop was due to the enrollment verification process.

Cotton ball Mom told her friends. Holy ish!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reviving this because of the ARLnow article about middle school boundaries today. https://www.arlnow.com/2023/09/28/aps-to-pause-middle-school-boundary-process-for-one-year/#more-304509

Apparently Gunston is now down to 2 students over design capacity, so 994, from last year's September enrollment of 1072. They explicitly said the drop was due to the enrollment verification process.

I hadn't seen this angle. Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Wow interesting. It says this in the article

"APS may still, one day, move the immersion program from Gunston to Kenmore, in an effort to get more secondary students to stick with the program, says Director of Strategic Planning Iliana Gonzales."

Which makes it seem like it might not move at all!

I wonder where the kids that were out of bounds were supposed to go to school. It be interesting to see the data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow interesting. It says this in the article

"APS may still, one day, move the immersion program from Gunston to Kenmore, in an effort to get more secondary students to stick with the program, says Director of Strategic Planning Iliana Gonzales."

Which makes it seem like it might not move at all!

I wonder where the kids that were out of bounds were supposed to go to school. It be interesting to see the data.

Yes! I mean clearly it’s not someone who was zoned for hamm or Williamsburg trying to get in over at gunston. That’s super interesting.

[Anonymous]

Almost 100 kids, that is a ton!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow interesting. It says this in the article

"APS may still, one day, move the immersion program from Gunston to Kenmore, in an effort to get more secondary students to stick with the program, says Director of Strategic Planning Iliana Gonzales."

Which makes it seem like it might not move at all!

I wonder where the kids that were out of bounds were supposed to go to school. It be interesting to see the data.

Yes! I mean clearly it’s not someone who was zoned for hamm or Williamsburg trying to get in over at gunston. That’s super interesting.

Right? I was thinking maybe folks trying to come from Alexandria?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow interesting. It says this in the article

"APS may still, one day, move the immersion program from Gunston to Kenmore, in an effort to get more secondary students to stick with the program, says Director of Strategic Planning Iliana Gonzales."

Which makes it seem like it might not move at all!

I wonder where the kids that were out of bounds were supposed to go to school. It be interesting to see the data.

Yes! I mean clearly it’s not someone who was zoned for hamm or Williamsburg trying to get in over at gunston. That’s super interesting.

Right? I was thinking maybe folks trying to come from Alexandria?

And MD as we all know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow interesting. It says this in the article

"APS may still, one day, move the immersion program from Gunston to Kenmore, in an effort to get more secondary students to stick with the program, says Director of Strategic Planning Iliana Gonzales."

Which makes it seem like it might not move at all!

I wonder where the kids that were out of bounds were supposed to go to school. It be interesting to see the data.

Best guess: mostly Alexandria, which is right across the road. Apparently, as cotton ball mom suggests, some come from Maryland. But my guess is most were from Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

Wonder if this helped the overcrowding at Wakefield, also? Why didn’t they do this years ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if this helped the overcrowding at Wakefield, also? Why didn’t they do this years ago?

Is it going to be an every year thing now? I think probably right?

It's weird that they didn't do it before since you can basically you only would show residency when you started K (or whatever grade you enter the system at) and then no one checks again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if this helped the overcrowding at Wakefield, also? Why didn’t they do this years ago?

Is it going to be an every year thing now? I think probably right?

It's weird that they didn't do it before since you can basically you only would show residency when you started K (or whatever grade you enter the system at) and then no one checks again.

I think so. I believe all families of rising 5th and 8th graders have to do this each year from now on, and clearly it was necessary. If it’s a matter of needing boundary changes, or not, even more so.

[Anonymous]

In my admittedly anecdotal experience, fake address families have been pretty evenly split between MD, Alexandria, Ffx, and PW county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reviving this because of the ARLnow article about middle school boundaries today. https://www.arlnow.com/2023/09/28/aps-to-pause-middle-school-boundary-process-for-one-year/#more-304509

Apparently Gunston is now down to 2 students over design capacity, so 994, from last year's September enrollment of 1072. They explicitly said the drop was due to the enrollment verification process.

I hadn't seen this angle. Interesting.

Who/what says the drop was due to the enrollment verification process?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reviving this because of the ARLnow article about middle school boundaries today. https://www.arlnow.com/2023/09/28/aps-to-pause-middle-school-boundary-process-for-one-year/#more-304509

Apparently Gunston is now down to 2 students over design capacity, so 994, from last year's September enrollment of 1072. They explicitly said the drop was due to the enrollment verification process.

I hadn't seen this angle. Interesting.

Who/what says the drop was due to the enrollment verification process?

“As of last week at each middle school, only one school exceeds capacity: Gunston has two students beyond its design capacity,” Dept. of Planning and Evaluation Executive Director Lisa Stengle told the board on Tuesday. “Every middle school fits right now. So the urgency that we had to change middle school boundaries may not be as urgent as it was when we started this process.”

She attributed this to the home address confirmation process this summer, when APS changed how it verifies students living in Arlington and unenrolled non-resident fifth and eighth graders."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if this helped the overcrowding at Wakefield, also? Why didn’t they do this years ago?

Is it going to be an every year thing now? I think probably right?

It's weird that they didn't do it before since you can basically you only would show residency when you started K (or whatever grade you enter the system at) and then no one checks again.

I think so. I believe all families of rising 5th and 8th graders have to do this each year from now on, and clearly it was necessary. If it’s a matter of needing boundary changes, or not, even more so.

What a lovely and rare example of Syphax doing something right! Whoever was in charge of this needs to be charge of everything.