are BCC and Whitman going to get less crowded?

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Anonymous wrote:BCC will definitely be less crowded since many of the students on its northern boundary will end up at Woodward.

count on it

I don’t see how MCPS avoids this. Development in BCC cluster is booming and can’t see how any future additionto BCC is possible

My guess is that if they need to shrink or alter the BCC zone, they will target neighborhoods/elementaries that feed into Westland, not the Silver Creek feeders. In the current climate, there's no way that MCPS will let a Bethesda HS become even *more* skewed in terms of racial/ethnic/SES demographics.

If this happens, pretty much everyone with kids living in current Westland feeders will move. The elementary schools in these areas have already been declining for years, and this will be the final nail in the coffin. This continued obsession with equality of outcomes and identity politics will eventually bankrupt the County. Northwest D.C. is rapidly becoming more attractive.

They'll likely move Westbrook to the Whitman cluster.

That would leave Pyle even more crazily overcrowded and leave Westland practically empty.

If anything, I think they'd move a feeder school OUT of Pyle/Whitman, perhaps Woodacres as one example. Pyle is on a tiny lot and has been having all kinds of problems due to overcrowding. They're putting on an addition, but it's to deal with the current size of the school, not to allow for more students. They won't be getting any more land.

They need to consider split articulation. A school or two could feed to Westland and then Whitman.

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Anonymous wrote:BCC will definitely be less crowded since many of the students on its northern boundary will end up at Woodward.

count on it

I don’t see how MCPS avoids this. Development in BCC cluster is booming and can’t see how any future additionto BCC is possible

My guess is that if they need to shrink or alter the BCC zone, they will target neighborhoods/elementaries that feed into Westland, not the Silver Creek feeders. In the current climate, there's no way that MCPS will let a Bethesda HS become even *more* skewed in terms of racial/ethnic/SES demographics.

If this happens, pretty much everyone with kids living in current Westland feeders will move. The elementary schools in these areas have already been declining for years, and this will be the final nail in the coffin. This continued obsession with equality of outcomes and identity politics will eventually bankrupt the County. Northwest D.C. is rapidly becoming more attractive.

They'll likely move Westbrook to the Whitman cluster.

I think this has to be the most likely (and fair) solution. Geographically, Westbrook is the farthest BCC elementary school from BCC (the second farthest, Rock Creek Forest, is about a mile closer and provides much of BCC's economic and racial diversity, whereas Westbrook is the whitest elementary school that feeds to BCC). Moving Westbrook out of BCC will actually increase the diversity of BCC marginally, but BCC will remain one of the top high schools (Westbrook scores are a little better than Rock Creek Forest, pretty similar to Somerset, Bethesda and North Chevy Chase Elementary Schools and just a little lower than Chevy Chase Elementary School). The problem is that moving Westbrook to Whitman also doesn't improve Whitman's diversity. Moving Kensington to Woodward makes no sense for many reasons - what do you do with the rest of the area that sends students to North Chevy Chase, many of whom are walking distance from BCC? What do you do with Silver Creek, which was recently built inside Kensington? Geographically, Keninsgton is much closer to BCC than the Woodward site.

Kensington is even closer to Einstein.