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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Drop the "choice" - allow transfers. SIMPLE!!!!!!

Jamestown should be allowing transfers already[/quote]

why do you think that the hundreds of students who currently live in the Key neighborhood would rather 'transfer' to another neighborhood school that is a long distance from their house, rather than have a walkable neighborhood school?  
If the greatest need for seats is in the North East- Key/ASFS area, then doesn't it make sense to make both of those neighborhood schools?

There are valid points to not moving the choice schools- but allowing 'transfers' is not an easy solution.

Also- if they keep all the north west schools (Tuckahoe/Reed/Nottingham/Discovery) as neighborhood- there are going to be some awfully funny looking boundaries having to be drawn.  All those planning units that are walkable to Reed and think they are going to Reed will actually be at Tuckahoe, because Reed will have to be taking the Ballston/VA square planning units, etc-  [/quote]

ASFS & Key switch - ASFS is a neighborhood school. Doesn't that resolve the Key situation? To your point above, why would anyone want to schlep their kids to Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery for a choice school? Poor kids would be on busses at the crack of dawn. [/quote]

No it doesn't.  If you look at the projection charts- https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Capacity_Utilization_FallProjections17-26_Final_Web.pdf
in 2021 when Reed opens Key is short 210 seats (that's based on its current boundary- not the idea that it is immersion) and ASFS is short 81 seats.  Long Branch is short 84 seats.  Glebe is short 80 seats, Taylor is short 30 seats.  Add those numbers up and you get to 485.  ASFS has a capacity of 553.  It is almost entirely filled if you make both ASFS and Key neighborhood- just be the overflow from the boundaries surrounding it.

in 2021 mcKinley has a surplus of 14 seats, Tuckahoe is short 67, Nottingham is short 35.  Discovery has a surplus of 43.  That means in order to fill Reed- without changing the status of Tuckahoe- then the Reed Boundary is going to have to reach deep into the orange line corridor- busing the kids around ASFS and Key to Reed, and continue to bus the kids around Reed to Tuckahoe.  
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Key and ASFS swap locations. Key has a higher capacity and is located closer to the majority of students within the two miles or so. The Immersion program moves to ASFS, close enough for most current Key families and Spanish dominant families to continue attending without major inconvenience. Fleet opens and pulls a number of Long Branch students. Reed opens and pulls in some students from Glebe. Jamestown in under capacity, so move some Taylor units that are geographically close into the Jamestown zone. I think that about sums it up, and makes sense from an efficiency perspective. You don't need both ASFS and Key to be neighborhood schools, because with the planned new schools coming online, then you are going to have to many seats in the E, same as the problem they are having in the NW. Nobody has to get bused from the ASFS area to Reed. No. The planned new schools and cascading boundary shifts will take care of all of this while maxing out walkers to current neighborhood schools (it just means more car riders, but whatever, I'll let them have their fantasy because this is really about cost and not environmental sustainability).

I don't know what they will do with Tuckahoe, but I don't think it makes sense as an option that currently exists. It's not an ideal location for an option school period, but if they make it an option, it should be an option that doesn't exist and that would be attractive to the nearby families who'd be most likely to apply, so that it fills up. Or they could just open transfers and provide transportation. [/quote]

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