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[quote=Anonymous]Just a comment on the McKinley thoughts above. I have thought about this too, but I think the reason that McKinley has not come up as a potential option site has more to do with building capacity. APS needs to create ~250 new neighborhood seats in the NW to address the current overcapacity situation at McKinley and Glebe. If you open 725 new neighborhood seats at Reed, but then give up 680 neighborhood seats at McKinley, you have only created 45 new neighborhood seats which means trailers definitely needed at Tuckahoe & Nottingham. In contrast, if you pick a smaller NW building as a choice school, then APS picks up the necessary number of new neighborhood seats (e.g., opening Reed as neighborhood, but giving up Nottingham, still produces a net gain of 225 new neighborhood seats). Also, keeping Ashlawn and McKinley as neighborhood schools gives APS more flexibility when it comes to drawing boundaries with SES diversity. For example, Reed gets the Westover Apartments, McKinley gets the Patrick Henry Apartments at Wilson & McKinley Rd, and Ashlawn pulls across Route 50 or even takes some of the Barrett PUs. Also, this ensures that APS has additional flexibility in the event that one of those dumpy commercial sites on Wilson ends up a new APAH project (e.g., the Bluemont Safeway) and infuses a bunch of new kids into the system. I am sure they have mapped this out at APS. I completely agree that McKinley especially is going to end up with a long skinny boundary that runs up Wilson Blvd, but that's what they have always had because Bluemont ends up split between McKinley and Ashlawn with the loss of the ATS site. [/quote]

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