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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, RMHS is very overcrowded. Two main contributors - [b]all the recent development projected singles or married/no kids for a lot of this apartments, but there are more children living there than projected.[/b] RM was also slated for an addition (as were many other high schools) but that was scrapped in favor of two new high schools. It's a better fiscal solution, but pushes out the timeline for a fix. Meanwhile, RM has been adding portables and there have been internal construction projects to revamp underutilized spaces into classrooms and additional offices for counseling.

The rapid pace of development in the past 15 years has vastly outstripped the ability of the school system to respond, and the money the county council is willing to provide for capital improvements. In on of the recent BOE meeting discussing the new process for projections a comment was made to the effect that newly approved development can start producing students in two years. But with the school system's longer capital improvements process it takes 4-6 years minimum for new spaces to be built. Factor in the existing backlog, and there's a huge problem.[/quote]

This is absolutely a huge issue.  This is an expensive area, so may families with kids do live in these high density apartment units/condos.  Definitely kids in townhouses.  [b]Yet, MCPS doesn't account for them when it makes projections.[/b]

Also, people have an elderly relative living in one of these units, and the family/child lives elsewhere.  They use the relative's address.  My co-worker lives in Frederick County, but works in Montgomery County.  She uses her MILs apartment address for her two kids to attend MCPS.  The projections that MCPS makes simply don't account for this kind of thing.  [/quote]

MCPS [i]does[/i] account for them.

And if your co-worker gives her MIL's apartment address for her two kids to attend MCPS, then MCPS accounts for them too -- it's the address on the MCPS record for the kids.[/quote]

But the issue is when predicting  the student population in advance,[b] they use age based demographics.[/b]  They do not assume many grandparent age people will have kids in school.  Of course some grandparents have custody of small children and some people give a fraudulent address..but it is harder for MCPS to guess how many people will lie about their address.[/quote]

They also use the information about how many students come from particular types of residences. If that's the address the co-worker gives for her kids, then her kids get included in the count of kids who live in the residence the MIL lives in.[/quote]

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