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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know why Somerset is so severely under capacity?

It's great for the kids/parents who live/attend that school, it's just such a different dynamic than all of the other schools on this list.  [/quote]

Sorry, meant to type Westbrook![/quote]

It’s catchment area is all SFHs, so there is very low density in that part of the cluster. It would make sense to move some of the high rise buildings in Friendship Heights that are now in Somerset into Westbrook. Then you could move some of the crowding in the Bethesda ES catchment into Somerset. [/quote]

Why does Westbrook even go to BCC?  It should go to Whitman based on geography.  [/quote]

It's 3.3 miles vs. 3.2 miles.[/quote]

3.5 miles (to BCC) vs 2.9 (to Whitman) by my count.  10 minutes to Whitman vs 20 minutes to BCC.  And BCC is already very crowded.  [/quote]

[b]Everywhere is crowded[/b]  That's a little bit of an overstatement, but people in their BCC bubble who think only BCC is "very crowded" well, BCC is currently within the capacity of the addition and WJ is about 200 students over capacity, expected to be close to 700 over capacity in 5-6 years.  I think Einstein is not over capacity yet, but it's not like there's tons of room there either.  Northwood will have space when it's addition/rev/ex opens in 2025, which is also when Woodward is supposed to open.  Current schools do not have capacity to just move kids around.  There will not be a solution to overcrowding until Northwood/Woodward open if then.  [/quote]

And now there's the whole question of whether Woodward will be opened with full high school facilities ... [/quote]

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