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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that it makes a lot of sense to turn the ATS building back into a neighborhood elementary school. Look at the County's 2020/21 enrollment numbers--- Ashlawn is still projected to be over-capacity by 139 kids, even with the addition that they put on two years ago. And there were two planning units from Ashlawn that were supposed to move to McKinley, but they ended up keeping them at Ashlawn because McKinley was also already over-capacity (again, even with the addition). You could probably accomplish something similar by bringing Westover on-line as a neighborhood school, although it would take more dramatic boundary changes to impact the projected overcrowding at ASF, Key, and Long Branch. However, I still think the ATS program has dubious educational value-- everyone holds it up like it is helping all these South Arlington kids, but if you look at the transfer enrollment numbers on the APS website, it predominantly draws from N. Arlington schools which suggests that most S. Arlington families aren't even applying for it. They should take the money earmarked for the Reed renovation and use it to move ATS to South Arlington if that is the population that will most benefit from the educational program. You can still let the N. Arlington families apply into the school if they want choice, although I suspect most from 22207 would not follow the program to S. Arlington. And yes, I get that these families have the right to apply under the current system-- but I am saying that the current system needs to change, and I do plan on expressing that to the School Board as do many of my neighbors.[/quote]

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