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[quote=Anonymous]The poster who is asserting that the new middle school will have a dramatically different socioeconomic profile than Westland doesn't know what s/he is talking about. The socio-economics of the BCC feeders east of Wisconson and/or Conn Ave are not dramatically different than west of Conn Ave, with the (possibly important) exception of Rock Creek Forest, and even that isn't a large low-income population. (Note that I'm talking only about the BCC feeder schools; I recognize that there is an east-west dividing line, particularly further outside the city.)

A middle school comprised of kids from KP, NCC, CCES, and RCF will not be a predominantly poor or non-white middle school. But this is one of the scare tactics that opponents of a new school and in particular the opponents of the RCH site have trotted out to try to paper over their NIMBYism. I won't argue that Westland will be whiter and richer, and I agree that is a downside although I'm not sure how any articulation pattern that isn't explicitly a desegregation program could change that. Still, the demographics will be overwhelmingly white and very upper middle class (at least by national standards) for the new school as well. Just look at the stats for the feeder schools themselves via the MCPS school-at-a-glance pages.

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