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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get Montessori in PreK. Our family actually attended a satellite school at APS, and the program was really good. But in elementary? I've never heard of those fantastic academic outcomes of their students like you do for ATS and even immersion. And then most of the school goes to their neighborhood middle school. Why does this method need a whole pipeline and a shiny new school?

Who's doing it besides S. Arlington parents who want to escape their neighborhood schools? How many N. Arlington parents partake? Are they ATS lottery losers who just need to say their kids go to an "option school"? I'd like to see that data.[/quote]

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2023/08/2022-23-Transfer-Report.pdf

You will probably find the transfer report interesting. [/quote]

So...
69.72% of Montessori comes from South Arlington.
86% of Campbell comes from South Arlington.
Immersion programs are generally split N/S; so that shows 50/50 participation.
ATS is 49.75% South Arlington; so again a 50/50 participation from north and south.

Less than half of HB come from 3 middle schools serving south Arlington, two of which also serve north arlington. (So favors north)
For high school HB, less than one-third come from Wakefield (28%). So 72% come from north Arlington. (favors north)
Even for W-L, 83 more transfer from YHS than from WHS. (favors north)
And 60% of Career Center, which I assume is (primarily?) Arlington Tech, come from WL and YHS. That's a straight lottery, yes? If so, favors north. Or is it "x" number of seats per school?

So what does that actually say?
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This isn't your point, but I'd like to understand how BOTH Key and Claremont have kids from Abingdon, Fleet, Arlington Science Focus, Ashlawn, Barcroft, Barrett, Cardinal, Carling Springs, Drew, Hoffman Boston, Innovation, Long Branch, Oakridge, and Randolph.  [/quote]
Some are probably kids who's parents moved during the school year but are being allowed to complete the year.

I don't know if they'd allow a kid to stay >1 year if their parents moved elsewhere in Arlington in the upper grades and there was still room in the class, as new non-native Spanish speakers can't join the program at that point.  That doesn't seem crazy.[/quote]

To clarify, new non-native Spanish speakers can and do join immersion in later grades. They just have to pass a Spanish language test and there must be space available. [/quote]

Mid-year moves could explain some of this, assuming parents remember to update their address with the school.  IIRC the boundary change 2 years ago allowed then 4th graders to finish elementary school wherever they were, so they would be 5th graders this year.  That would be Cardinal (previously McKinley), Tuckahoe, and Nottingham.  Seven kids in the Cardinal zone are at Claremont, so perhaps the boundary change explains some of that number.  No Tuckahoe or Notthingham kids are, according to the report.  What sticks out to me is the Fleet and Hoffman-Boston numbers.  Twelve kids living in the Fleet zone are at Claremont.  Eight kids living in the Hoffman-Boston zone are at Key.  Neither changed zones in either of the last two boundary changes (2021 and 2022).  I guess the good news is it overall it is roughly a wash with 29 kids at Claremont living in the Key zone and 28 kids at Key living in the Claremont zone.  Maybe space is an issue?  Maybe if you move to another immersion zone you can stay at your original school if the school you move to doesn’t have space?

29 Claremont: Arlington Science Focus (1), Fleet (12), Ashlawn (1), Barrett (3), Cardinal (7), Innovation (3), Long Branch (2)
28 Key: Abingdon (5), Barcroft (2), Carlin Springs (6), Drew (5), Hoffman Boston (8), Oakridge (2)
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