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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish we could fast forward to September to see those "refined options" [/quote]

There may be a Wayside to Gaithersburg option to make the Wootton option look better.

- Flo[/quote]

Wayside to Gaitherburg option should have been there to start with. How will be the bus ride in this case? If it's longer than 25 minutes then it's an issue. As long as it's less than 25 minutes, it will work.[/quote]

Wayside has Churchill at 2.4 miles, Wotton at 4 miles, crown at 7.2 miles, and Gaithersburg at 9.7 miles...where is this came from? and not to mention Gaithersburg is overcapacity....= =[/quote]

Whats the driving time for Gaithersburg? Gaithersburg can send more to Crown.[/quote]

Gaithersburg and Crown are already relatively high FARMS.

The only way Gaithersburg can be brought into Crown is if they add more richer areas to Crown.

Quince Orchard HS, Northwest HS and Crown HS are all really close with each other, which kind of makes it hard to mix up school zones.

For example Great Seneca Creek could potentially be brought to QO due to proximity and FARMS rate.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/elementary-schools/d-g/greatsenecacreekes/uploadedfiles/about/02340.pdf

But the issue is that Great Seneca Creek is practically right next to Northwest and doesn't make sense to have them go all the way to QO.[/quote]

The area a little bit east of Great Seneca Creek for Brown Station is currently zoned for Quince Orchard but some options have it going to Northwest.

While Quince Orchard may be overcrowded now, not having the Fields Road Elementary School area will help it in terms of capacity, and they can keep these areas like around Brown Station and not try to offload it to Northwest and affecting Northwest's FARMs rates.

Then Crown can pull from some more richer areas and then can maybe pull from some areas from Gaitherburg High.  It looks like some of the options has some of the nicer areas of Gaithersburg High going elsewhere and is probably what is affecting it's FARMs rates.

When they first announced Crown, I assumed that they'd pull from some areas that just seemed like common sense to me and would result in a fairly balanced school.  I'm not going to list it because it does serve my own purposes and it will probably tick off the people in the areas where I'd say it make sense to rezone to Crown.

But if they do any other moves outside of that, you'd have to wonder if they have some other agenda.

And with the issue with Churchill, they probably should first look into moving any special programs that may have out of residents outside of it's zone first.  I do know of some families who purposely go into the program just so that their kids can go to Churchill.  Then they should probably look at all sides of the boundaries to see where they may be able to readjust it, instead of limiting it to just one or two schools in another direction.

Not sure why they're making things more complicated than they have to.[/quote]

Crown itself is a very wealthy area, and the housing prices near Crown are very high. I think a reasonable area to pull from would definitely be within a 2-mile radius. Also, aren't they planning to build 2 or 3 more apartment complexes near Rio? I think Crown will be full—just give it some time.[/quote]

Someone told me(so don't know how accurate it is) that MCPS or whomever didn't forecast the actual Crown community as having many families.  They might be expecting more younger adults living there.

Not that MCPS always correctly guesses this kind of stuff all the time.[/quote]

MCPS alone doesn’t create the forecasting.  They get it from county sources who clearly had outdated ideas about what people lived in what housing. Like thinking townhomes did not have many kids. Same with apartments.  Whether that was done intentionally to appease developers or because of bias, the end result was the same, under forecasting and thus schools overcrowded. [/quote]

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