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ATS is slated to get those seats b/c they can fill them without the cascading boundary changes a new neighborhood school would cause.  With waitlists of 100 per grade those seats will fill immediately and draw more kids out of the already over-crowded schools with no muss, no fuss.  Makes perfect sense.[/quote]

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Not accurate.  It draws some from overcrowded schools and more from schools at or below capacity (unless the lottery is rigged in favor of N. Arlington).  Only 10 schools are currently above capacity. Assuming a fair lottery and sufficient demand from all parts of the county (which is a safe bet) 1/2 of the seats in the new addition would be filled by schools currently undercapacity.  So in effect, the ATS addition only accomplished the goal of reducing overcrowding by half.  Whereas a Glebe addition, would be right in the midst of 8 overcrowded schools and be far more beneficial to reducing overcrowding where it exists (in N. Arlington).[/quote]

Where are you getting your information? It's well out of date and riddled with assumptions and conjecture. There are 12 schools over capacity now. ATS is one, at 107%. That's more over-crowded than Jamestown, ASFS and Key and only 1% less than Glebe. The ATS lottery is held in public and isn't rigged. (If it were, surely Arne Duncan's kids would be there.) You can go watch if you want. They pull more kids from the North because they get MANY more applicants from the North. If you look you can find the numbers, it's pretty significant how many kids ATS has kept out of the really over-crowded schools.[/quote]

I got my capacity information from the MSMS website-- there is a spreadsheet with current enrollment/capacity and projections out a number of years.  Please note I was referring only to neighborhood schools as far as capacity. Only 1 (neighborhood) school in S. Arlington is overcapacity.   If choice schools are over capacity, that can be changed quite easily by limiting the number of kids they allow to lottery in.  So even if 75% are coming from N. Arlington, that's still 25% of the capacity expansion that's wasted, sloughing off kids from at or slightly below capacity schools.[/quote]

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