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[quote=Anonymous]- MCPS did a lot of responding to criticism it's received in both Woodward and Crown Boundary Studies. A lot of the pushback was around the feedback on how they calculated utilization and forecasted student enrollment. I'll leave it to those who are more well-versed on if you think their responses were persuasive

Their numbers have been bad for decades. They are literally off by hundreds of students in individual schools, but claim 95 or 99% correct when they average across the entire system.  It's meaningless when your child's school is at 125% capacity and another is at 75% and they say, "look, average is 100%, we got it right."

They way they include and don't include what is in the pipeline is criminal. How they decide one year it's new buildings causing overcrowding and the next year it's single family housing turnover.

And can we talk about how their plans used STATE numbers, not actual numbers of students in a catchment area? When they have the later, the the former includes all students in the catchment area, including special ed students who are bussed to discrete or special programs in other schools and, private schools students, because, you know their parents might pull them out and put them in MCPS[/quote]

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