Third round options on Woodward Boundary study

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks like they are assuming SSIMS closure in 2030 with additional capacity by that time at Eastern and Sligo. Looks like some students are moved to Takoma MS as well (I’m looking at Option E).

I’m not sure how the “holding school” proposal fits into that, though. Like where are the current SSIMS students while their school is being used by another school’s students?

The charts read as if the holding school proposal is moot and they’ll do the construction for Sligo and Eastern while those students are on site. But I thought that wasn’t feasible/would take longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like they are assuming SSIMS closure in 2030 with additional capacity by that time at Eastern and Sligo. Looks like some students are moved to Takoma MS as well (I’m looking at Option E).

I’m not sure how the “holding school” proposal fits into that, though. Like where are the current SSIMS students while their school is being used by another school’s students?

The charts read as if the holding school proposal is moot and they’ll do the construction for Sligo and Eastern while those students are on site. But I thought that wasn’t feasible/would take longer.

The holding school was only supposed to be for one year of Sligo's construction-- the other year of Sligo's construction and all of Eastern's construction was/is supposed to happen with the students still on site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree that F makes a lot of sense. The hope it’s selected.

Option F looks like the WORST of all the options. I hope it is NOT selected.

I'm team Keep SSIMs open! Option B or bust!!

What do you dislike about F?

[Anonymous]

I didn’t get a text about the meeting tonight. I assume it was like the others without any public comments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you dislike about F?

Splits up Northwood a whole bunch. And Einstein too.

[Anonymous]

I like option F best, but is it DOA because it moves a Whitman elementary school to Westland and BCC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you dislike about F?

Splits up Northwood a whole bunch. And Einstein too.

I’m in the Einstein catchment and I like F because it keeps multiple elementary schools together while balancing capacity, geography, and FARMS rates.

[Anonymous]

We live two blocks from Sligo, but all three new options assign us to Eastern. 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like option F best, but is it DOA because it moves a Whitman elementary school to Westland and BCC?

I mean, maybe. But they just swapped Wood Acres and Bethesda Elementary for no real reason. If people in other neighborhoods like that option, they could just not do the swap.

[Anonymous]

Interesting to see the popularity of option F. This (along with B) is the big change option for my neighborhood — ESS, currently zoned for Blair and could move to Northwood. I’m not foaming at the mouth about it but I’d prefer to stay Blair.

[Anonymous]

Are the interactive maps not interactive this time? I thought you could click on your neighborhood and see the options?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like option F best, but is it DOA because it moves a Whitman elementary school to Westland and BCC?

I mean, maybe. But they just swapped Wood Acres and Bethesda Elementary for no real reason. If people in other neighborhoods like that option, they could just not do the swap.

It looks like they swapped them to increase Whitman FARMS but it’s a little nuts bc much of Bethesda Elementary is walk zone to BCC. I don’t see any other reason?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like they are assuming SSIMS closure in 2030 with additional capacity by that time at Eastern and Sligo. Looks like some students are moved to Takoma MS as well (I’m looking at Option E).

I’m not sure how the “holding school” proposal fits into that, though. Like where are the current SSIMS students while their school is being used by another school’s students?

Right but what happens with the middle schoolers in that area between 2027-2030 if maps E, F, or G are selected? Do they plan to close SSIMS earlier than initially mentioned and have Eastern overcrowded until the new building is done?

I think they would just stay at SSIMS until 2030.

[Anonymous]

No data tables or anything up yet for F or G, just E. I wonder if that means anything?

Eyeballing, it looks like F and G have Sligo MS more over-capacity (before addition) than option E which has it right at capacity. And F has Eastern less over-capacity than E and G (which have it over 200 over-capacity before the new building is completed.). But would like to see the actual numbers.

This all assumes that they are closing SSIMS early, but the documents still say it's closing in 2030. But then where do the kids go in the meantime?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see the popularity of option F. This (along with B) is the big change option for my neighborhood — ESS, currently zoned for Blair and could move to Northwood. I’m not foaming at the mouth about it but I’d prefer to stay Blair.

Yeah I'm an ESS family and agree with you. I think Northwood will be a fine school but I hate the idea of middle college. It feels like it kind of destroys both the high school and the college experience. I hope with the larger school there will be enough advanced kids not doing MC that my kids can do normal high school and still have advanced classes. So I hope we stay Blair, but we'll make the best of Northwood. I was upset about the possibility of being sent to SSIMS and then having it be closed and have to be bussed for middle school so I'm glad that seems like it won't happen.