PGCPS Comprehensive School Boundary Initiative Update

[Anonymous]

FYI

They put out a report with 3 scenarios. I'll be curious what the reaction is, especially in Bowie. The online tool is actually pretty cool.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PGCPS/bulletins/2e071ff

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI

They put out a report with 3 scenarios. I'll be curious what the reaction is, especially in Bowie. The online tool is actually pretty cool.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PGCPS/bulletins/2e071ff

I read the report today. I’m not happy. The conclusions in Bowie make no sense. The proposal is to rezone my house to a school a 30 minute walk away, versus 15. And in 2 scenarios the new school goes from under utilized to more over crowded than the one we’re being booted from. Not to mention, the new map looks like some kind of weird gerrymandering voting scheme.

[Anonymous]

All three scenarios make sense for our neighborhood for ES and MS but for HS it is a little bit strange. All three plans have our kids going to an over-enrolled high school (105%) but there is an under-enrolled high school just 0.5 miles further away that is only at 75% in all three options. I would think that it would make sense to shift the kids over to that school but who knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FYI

They put out a report with 3 scenarios. I'll be curious what the reaction is, especially in Bowie. The online tool is actually pretty cool.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PGCPS/bulletins/2e071ff

I read the report today. I’m not happy. The conclusions in Bowie make no sense. The proposal is to rezone my house to a school a 30 minute walk away, versus 15. And in 2 scenarios the new school goes from under utilized to more over crowded than the one we’re being booted from. Not to mention, the new map looks like some kind of weird gerrymandering voting scheme.

You need to look at the table at the back to check the enrollment numbers. They include students in portables in their capacity and some scenarios have different number of portables. So a school could have a capacity of 400, 425 and 450 in the 3 different options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FYI

They put out a report with 3 scenarios. I'll be curious what the reaction is, especially in Bowie. The online tool is actually pretty cool.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PGCPS/bulletins/2e071ff

I read the report today. I’m not happy. The conclusions in Bowie make no sense. The proposal is to rezone my house to a school a 30 minute walk away, versus 15. And in 2 scenarios the new school goes from under utilized to more over crowded than the one we’re being booted from. Not to mention, the new map looks like some kind of weird gerrymandering voting scheme.

You need to look at the table at the back to check the enrollment numbers. They include students in portables in their capacity and some scenarios have different number of portables. So a school could have a capacity of 400, 425 and 450 in the 3 different options.

I see it. Thank you!