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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]B-CC itself doesn't have serious overcrowding after the expansion but does seem to be at the nexus of many schools that either are or have the capacity so will probably be part of any solution. Nevertheless, I wouldn't get worked up over it. [/quote]

By the time Woodward opens, B-CC is projected to be overcapacity again. But, as has been already stated, B-CC's chapter in the CIP makes no mention of Woodward.[/quote]

Would you mention this? Seriously just the rumor of minor changes to a school's bounary makes parents go bananas.[/quote]

True. But the point is Woodward *is* mentioned in the WJ and DCC chapters.[/quote]

Right. The CIP includes a discussion of Woodward for the following chapters:

1. WJ
2. DCC

The CIP does NOT include a discussion for the following chapters:

1. all of the other clusters (including B-CC)

So why does that one poster keep insisting that the Woodward rezoning will include B-CC? I don't know.[/quote]

The map of the area to be part of the boundary study w/re Woodward included both BCC and Whitman: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/planning/Map2.23.17(2).pdf which is probably why it keeps coming up. Has this changed?

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No, BCC was included in a Roundtable discussion of theoretical options for Woodward.  It was not a Boundary Study and there has been no announcement of who is in/out of a Woodward boundary study because that boundary study will not even be announced until approx. 18 months before the school opens.  They haven't even done the planning for construction, let alone broken ground so the Boundary Study is still a ways off.

I think BCC continues to be brought into the convo because 1) the BCC catchment area has continuing housing development ongoing; 2) BCC is currently built to its max capacity - MCPS says that they cannot put another addition onto BCC to add capacity; 3) BCC is either already overcapacity or expected to become overcapacity in the same time frame as the plan to re-open Woodward (I haven't paid close attention to this so I don't personally know what the current numbers are); and 4) the BCC cluster boundaries abut the WJ boundaries.

That doesn't mean that anyone from BCC would be redistricted into Woodward or WJ, nor does it mean that BCC will necessarily be included in the boundary study.  But it's not crazy to think it could happen.    [/quote]

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