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Years and years and years ago, Lemon Road's boundary was going to be expanded toward Kent Garden's to help with its overcrowding.   If it did not have its boundary expanded it would have been closed because it was too small.  A compromise was negotiated where Lemon Road became a school to which people could transfer their children from other schools without the usual required reasons.  The former Principal managed the transfers so that there were two small classes for each grade.  On average about 80 students, schoolwide, were transfers.  It also kept the numbers down so that LemonRoad qualified as a 'small" school which meant they had different formulas for specialist hours from FCPS.   It has been a split feeder to Longfellow and Kilmer for generations of students (although only a handful go to Longfellow).  It has had a fair amount of economic diversity and the free and reduced lunch %'s were around 25%.

A few years ago, a boundary change was proposed from the other side - instigated by Freedom Hill to help with their overcrowding.  However, their idea was to pawn off most of the free and reduced meal students to Lemon Road.  It would have meant Lemon Road becoming a Title I school.  Lemon Road fought back and a compromise ensued and they took half of those students and half of another section of more affluent neighborhood.   They were able to absorb this by increasing class sizes and possibly an addition.  This was done in one calendar school year, where the original proposal was presented and the final one was done before the next school year started. Historically very swift.

The following school year, Lemon Road was presented with the addition and another change- the opening of a AAP Center for the following fall.  The AAP Center would take the students currently attending Haycock from the former District II schools.  At the time Longfellow was in District I and Kilmer was in District II, although may district II AAP students from several ES attended Haycock (district I) .  This was to alleviate Haycock's tremendous overcrowding which was much more severe than Freedom Hill's.  All of this decision making, again, was done within a school year.  Again, historically very swift.

In the midst of the above, their longtime Principal retired.  An experienced interim came in to manage the addition and now they have a permanent Principal.

Most of the Haycock drama was recorded on DCUM.  Most of the Lemon Road's was not.  I think the Lemon Road community did extremely well coping with so much change over so little time.  It doubled the size of the school in a three year timeframe.[/quote]

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