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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We move from S. Arlington N. Arlington because we didn't like our elementary option. We are really happy with our elementary school.  That being said, WMS is very overcrowded so we are thinking of a S. ARL middle school option.  We are zoned for Yorktown, but I have heard great things about Wakefield and wouldn't count it out. [/quote]

This is like looking into the possible future for my family. We are zoned to a terrible elementary, then TJ and Wakefield. We are satisfied with middle and high school but never planned to use the elementary school. Now they are making it ( Randolph) a choice school and I have no idea what that will mean. Hard to make plans. We really don't want to leave, but there is so much uncertainty.[/quote]

If Randolph becomes a choice school it won't be for several years so depending on the age of your child it may be a moot point. The demographics (especially the transient nature of some of the apartment communities), which are hard to change in that spot, affect the test scores, but I do know parents who are happy there.  [/quote]

Also, with Henry moving to TJ, Montessori to the old Henry building, making Drew a regular neighborhood school, there will be a bunch of boundary changes in S. Arlington.  If they make Randolph a choice school at the same time, it's hard to say what ES you would end up zoned to.  That's all supposed to happen for the 2019 school year.[/quote]

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