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[quote=Anonymous]On the Gilliam Place point. I'm the PP who raised that. My point is that under the Staff's current proposal, Gilliam Place stays Barcroft. I think the Staff's projections say there will be 45-50 kids coming out of that PU in 2019. My understanding is that there are numbers out there (I heard this from a SB member) suggesting Gilliam Place alone will produce 80+ kids when it opens or in the ensuing years.

So, my point is that the Staff may be well underestimating Gilliam (wouldn't be the first time) such that keeping it at Barcroft is a ticking time bomb both in terms of overall # of students and # of fr/l students. Moving Gilliam's unit to Fleet means that bomb will go off at Fleet (sorry for the aggressive metaphor), which is a bigger school and also under capacity by projections and demographically much more balanced than Barcroft.

It's sort of a mitigating factor to set off from the reality that there are no easy solutions here and the way I would propose helping Drew does not do as much to help Barcroft as the Staff's current proposal. [/quote]

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