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Dominion Hills and Madison Manor are just going to have to deal with riding a bus to Tuckahoe or Ashlawn.  They really aren't that special.[/quote]

+1.  I live a couple blocks from ATS but we didn't get a lottery slot so guess what, my kids ride the bus a mile + west to Ashlawn.  [/quote]

So now you know how the families whose houses face McKinley feel. [/quote]

Just ask the kids near Key who didn't get in. I'm sure they can tell you all about it. [/quote]
Everyone who applied to Key this year got in, that is part of the issue. They are getting few Spanish speakers and this year they didn't even have enough English speakers from the waitlist to fill the spaces in Kindergarten.[/quote]

They didn't even have enough English speakers? Wow. The Key lobby certainly isn't disclosing that.

So are the K classes undersubscribed? [/quote]

There are 125 kids in K as if Dec https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/U-MEM_281DEV_MEMBERSHIP-SUMMARY-ALL.pdf

There were 144 spots available in the lottery https://www.apsva.us/school-options/school-transfer-data-2/pre-k-elementary-options-transfers-application-data-school-year-2019-20/

All of the English speakers were offered a spot over the summer when Spanish speakers failed to materialize.[/quote]

Conspiracy theory, but could it be that Key wants to stay where they are to stay undersubscribed? I’d love to have my kids in a grade that was 87% of capacity. [/quote]

What are the benefits of being in a grade that is undercapacity?  I thought classroom size was pretty standard across the county? [/quote]

School and grade size are different from classroom size. You can have a small grade with each of 3 classes at maximum classroom capacity. A school that is under capacity overall will have less chaos, less strain on resources, and reasonable times for things like lunch. Kids could actually eat at lunchtime instead of 10:30.[/quote]

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