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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ Right, but there is a way to not take the Barcroft Apartments or Columbia Hills, or the high rises along the Pike with high housing voucher utilization. It may be a better strategy to balance demographics than trying to move South Fairlington, since the SB already rejected that idea. Ultimately, some Abingdon PUs have to move. I’d prefer they move ones that don’t negatively affect Drew, and that the SB will support. [/quote]

I just told you, that plan mostly avoided those apartments. People underestimate the poverty there and in green valley. Lots of people living free and clear in homes where grandma paid off the mortgage 30 years ago. [/quote]

Here’s another data point for you. PU 36030 is the only Columbia Forest Unit without a large apartment complex. It’s mostly SFH and geographically the largest PU in the neighborhood. It also has only 50 students, half which opt out of abindgon. And 15 of the 50 are FRL (30 percent), and it’s probably not the FRL kids opting out so you can be fairly sure that the percentage FRL from that unit is more like 50 percent. And that’s the least impoverished CF PU. Now you see the problem. Even the least poor unit in CF would make things worse at drew, and moving it probably wouldn’t help reduce overcrowding much at Abington anyway. You can find these tables of PU data on the APS website.[/quote]

It’s going to be hard to make contiguous boundaries for drew/abingdon while trying to balance demographics. I 100% understand why they made drew a neighborhood school based on the history but 2 more demographically balances schools could be created if Claremont was moved to drew and Claremont took Claremont and Columbia forest and abingdon took fairlington and green valley.[/quote]

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