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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before covid, Rachel Carson ES in Gaithersburg was way overcrowded and planned to move some kids to Dufief ES after its expansion. We are recently told that there won't be any kid moving school zone at Rachel Carson ES, and all portables would be removed (kids move back in building) because we are under capacity now. I wonder where those kids move to, private school or different ES/school district? [/quote]

I live in the Kentlands and it's very obvious just from observing the pickup and dropoffs that enrollment has plummeted at Rachel Carson.  The place used to be thronged and caused big traffic disruptions.  Now it's not a big deal.  What's the current enrollment there?  A few years ago it was at 1100.  Just anecdotally, we have several neighbors who had planned to send their kids there pre-pandemic but are now doing homeschool and private school. [/quote]

Rachel Carson is a good example of parents with means who might be sending to private because of problems in mcps, but the principal is also a problem. It once had a very accomplished,  competent principal but that person left a year or two before the pandemic.  The problems at that school have been increasing ever since.[/quote]
Last year RCES: 773
Year before:  893
Year before that: 973
Year before that 1022

*includes PreK[/quote]

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