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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey Nottingham, Mary K. is going to kill your school. Tune in to the board meeting Dec. 18. She’s already ruled out closing Taylor and while Mary’s proposal will mention a south ES, the huge lack of seats in the south means not even Drew will be converted to an option school. (Also, good luck taking that historic black community’s school from them and bussing their kids elsewhere, amirite?). This means only Nottingham is left and please remember Mary supported that school being swing space last year. Good luck. [/quote]

Not being obtuse - why do we care given how under enrolled it is? I don’t see enrollment picking back up naturally (ie via new families moving in) and “north north” Arlington is already bursting at the seams with elementary schools. [/quote]

Also not being obtuse…genuinely responding: the degree to which Nottingham or any neighborhood school is under enrolled or over capacity has to do with its current boundaries. APS has skipped countywide redrawing cycles at least once and maybe twice, and keeps setting itself up for big one later this decade. The irony is that no matter whether an ES is closed/lost to neighborhood or not, there is going to be a massive redrawing that likely includes shifting a mass of households northward generally. This is why I strongly agree APS should never lose a building (unlike the transfers to county in 90s)…we can use every facility much better with new boundaries. But if I were Nottingham community, I would argue for that first before losing their local. [/quote]

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