APS - "Instructional Focus" for new high school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we have two county wide problems.
We don't have space for all of the kids and we have imbalanced demographics. The second issue effects the first. Families shoehorn into WL to avoid Wakefield, and we have more overcrowding...
It's not even enough to have a fourth comprehensive high school.
We need three schools similar to WL. Wakefield being considered undesirable by so many people is causing problems.
Kenmore as a comprehensive high school seems to possibly address that. I'm not sure the career center would do the same. I'd be interested to see some data comparing the two.

Thanks for this smart post. You make good sense. Wakefield's offering could be beefed up to relieve crowding at WL, along with the creation of a 4th comprehensive HS. I'd like to see test-in magnet programs established at Wakefield. MoCo used this approach to turn Blair Montgomery around in the 90s, with huge success.