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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tonight is the second time I heard about Garrett Park likely being on the chopping block. Anyone else hear this?[/quote]

Who is proposing to close Garrett Park ES?[/quote]

Yep they are right on the line and good FARMS. redistricting them to einstein or wheaton is Low hanging fruit. Then of course the ES may close because everyone leaves town but that’s a problem for another day lol.[/quote]

My daughter lives in there and at Thanksgiving she said they are worried. Their current HS is very overcrowded too.[/quote]

MCPS will be reopening Woodward HS to relieve their current HS, among others. Garrett Park is likely to be reassigned there. Which is not the same thing as "being on the chopping block."[/quote]
Yeah, along with Luxmanor and Farmland. Middle school is still Tilden. [/quote]
And that was the plan long before any 'boundary studies' came in the picture![/quote]

After upcountry moves...GP and Kensington Parkwood  could shift easy to Einstein while OTES comes West to Woodward.  [/quote]

Yep that’s my guess.  Will it be enough to turn Einstein around?  Depends on how many parents bolt to privates I guess. [/quote]

Einstein non-FARMs neighborhoods also get shifted to the East under this plan.  So does that help Einstein?  Don’t know.  Seems like shifting around the deck chairs.  I think what they really would like to do is bus Whitman to Kennedy but they can’t get there directly so they have to move adjacent cluster to adjacent cluster until they get the right number of nonFARMs kids to the schools in need.[/quote]

The DCC was created to shift non-Farms students around. Coupled with the creation of DCC only magnets, I'd say it has done a pretty good job. The reality is, there are a lot more farms than non-farms students in these high schools. There is only so much shifting within the current boundaries that can be done at this point. We need some new non-farms areas to feed into the DCC. Originally BCC was supposed to be part of the DCC. It would be interesting to see what the DCC high schools would look like today demographically with BCC included in the mix. It was a real lack of moral courage that allowed MCPS to drop BCC cluster from the Downcounty Consortium back in the day.

Here is percentage of FARMS at each DCC HS as reported from 2017-2018 schools at a glance
Einstein 39.7
Kennedy 46.9
Blair 36.3
Northwood 52.5
Wheaton 49.7

The distribution is is already pretty good within the cluster. We could get everyone to under 50%, Kennedy is adding a regional IB magnet which should increase their non-farms a bit over the next few years. The best we'd do with current numbers is 45%. It seems to me, to make any meaningful change to these numbers, there needs to be an influx of non-farms students from outside the current consortium boundaries. We're also just a recession away from seeing current FARMS rates be much higher. Most of these schools have 70+ ever-FARMS percentage rates. Even Blair is at over 50%. I think Einstein is around 60+[/quote]

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