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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think much of the WJ section of Kensington will end up at Woodward. Too soon to know if that's a bad thing, but it will probably be a more diverse HS than WJ is presently. However BCC is already reasonably diverse and is very highly ranked, and house values are at least as high around the BCC zone as they are for WH.

One correction though-- I think it's highly unlikely there will ever be a split articulation where some Woodward-bound students go to Silver Creek for MS. If you look back on the debates over the SC boundary, the school will be at capacity itself pretty quickly as is. They won't have room to absorb kids from other elementaries.

BCC is less likely to be rezoned in whole since they are doing an addition now. But I'd be a tiny bit concerned that some of the Kensington streets that currently feed into BCC. It's crazy given the siting of SC as the second BCC MS, but there are lots of examples where students within walking distance of one MS wind up zoned elsewhere. That's the case for many of the streets near Westland.[/quote]

My point was not that these kids would go to Silver Creek and then Woodward, but that they would go to Silver Creek and then BCC. Downtown Kensington is actually closer to BCC than it is to WJ. It's just as possible that kids in Kensington would be rezoned to Silver Creek and then on to BCC.

The point is that no one knows and that my guess is as good as yours. What I don't think will happen, however, is that MCPS makes a decision that negatively affects a commercial corridor (downtown Kensington) that has been eyed by the county for economic redevelopment. There is big $ in Kensington...they're not sending kids from those $1.8M Victorians to a 3/10 high school...[/quote]

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