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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"If you look at it, Wootton is probably one of the high schools that has the highest density of houses within it's one mile walking radius in a suburban/neighborhood setting. So when people point out how Blair relocated, they don't account for how Blair was and is at a major busy intersection and was always mostly made up of commuters and bus riders.

Take a look at page 42 of this document: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteasset...rt/02d_proximity.pdf
It says only 8.1 percent of Blair students are in the walk zone for Blair. If using the 2 mile walkshed it would be 31.22 percent."

Just on this point, I think PP is misinformed. The linked document appears to reference Blair's current location; the school was moved over 20 years ago. It's previous location was near DT Silver Spring and very walkable for many students.[/quote]

Silver Spring International is in the old Blair Building right?

It's a smaller walk zone (1.5 mile) but it's numbers are on page 529 of the document.

And it shows 23.24 percent of the students are in the walk zone, while 66.52 percent would've been in the walkshed.

I don't know if the extra half mile would close the gap between the two.[/quote]

Correct. And comparing SSIMS to Frost, Frost has 20% of students in its walk zone.

Wootton and Frost are not walkable to a high % of students compared to other schools.[/quote]

That can be due to poor planning by MCPS.

But look at the utilization of the walk zone vs walk shed vs the two schools.

The difference between the students in the walk zone compared to the students in walkshed at SSIMS is 43.28 percent.  Meaning 43.28 percent of the area within the 1.5 mile radius of SSIMS is determined not to be walkable by residents.

Compare this to Wootton which has 27.74 percent of students in the walk zone and 25.54 percent in the two mile walkshed.  So they somehow have a negative number at -2.20, showing that the majority of the community in those two miles are walkable to the current Wootton location.

Or if you want to make it more equivalent, look at Frost, which is right next to Wootton and has a 1.5 mile walk zone.  It has 20.78 percent students in it's walk zone and 21.97 students in it's 1.5 mile walkshed.  And is only a difference of 1.19 percent.

So Frost and Wootton is more accessible to the homes in it's 1.5 to 2 mile radius.[/quote]

Ok, but *not that many* homes are in the 1.5-2 mile radius, compared to other schools! [/quote]

Like I said, it's poor planning by MCPS's part and what happens when try to overthink things and try to redraw boundaries based on anything other than proximity.  Maybe not in regards to Option H, where supposedly they're just lifting the whole school and moving it (which I'm skeptical about the claim).

But in the first round of options they propose boundaries and zones based on diversity and going things like sending some Walter Johnson students to Kennedy. Which to my understanding is off the table.  But it shows MCPS doesn't really plan well in terms of resources/money when doing things and leads to problems further down the road, which is what a lot of concerned families are saying.  Where they doubt the projected numbers MCPS is using to base these decisions on based on the developments going on in the area.[/quote]

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