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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fleet is 30% poverty, and Fleet pretty much = AH + Penrose. So that's the "rich" surrounding neighborhoods you reference. It's better than Barcroft (62%) and Abingdon (45%), yes, but not as rich as Oakridge (23%) and clearly not a McKinley (9%) or a Nottingham (4%) or Tuckahoe (2%). Everything is relative.

In fact, 30% is pretty much our system wide average. So these neighborhoods are average for Arlington. 
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We both know what’s behind that average, which is wealthy SFH owners, and a smaller number of apartments. Fleet has to reach into alcove heights to pick up Gilliam (it’s only CAF) and Fillmore gardens is an 80 percent mark with nothing bigger than a 2 bedroom.

Anyway, my point was not to argue about whether AH is rich, there’s no pretending it’s not — just look at Redfin. My point is that these renderings are nice, the CC will be a tempting choice for both that and proximity. And once a critical mass of families in AH and Penrose decide to option in to a brand new building a block or two away, it’ll gather momentum. As a result, Wakefield’s poverty rate will rise and that will further encourage people to option into the CC. This is pretty much inevitable I think. Arlington is divided by north south, but south Arlington is divided too, primarily but not exclusively by east west. If you have one high school in the eastern part and one in the west, you’re going to get a poor school and a rich school. It doesn’t matter if one is option or not. [/quote]

What’s your solution, PP? Not build a HS in that area?  It seems like you or you plus others post often about the possibility of Wakefield tanking after the CC is built, but I never hear what your preferred outcome would be.  [/quote]

DP - a high school should be built at the Kenmore site.  Better boundaries can be established for better balancing demographics.[/quote]

Agree 100%  [/quote]

Agree but didn't APS reject that idea three years ago? Is it back on the table or is this just wishful thinking? [/quote]
The community needs to push it back onto the table - before they get to phase II of the Career Center; and before they decide to put something else there instead.[/quote]

I think one of the reasons Kenmore was dropped was because UMC families then recoiled at the idea of that becoming a high school that would draw from the north. Arlington Heights gamely suggested they supported a bigger program at the CC, provided it was an option until it had comparable facilities to the comprehensive HSs. CC is far enough into the south that people think they'll never have to go there from the north.

I live near there and I personally thought the idea was stupid to invite APS to build what could potentially a huge school on the smallest parcel of land, but maybe it will turn out fine. I suspect it will never have a pool so long as Montessori or the Community HS is there.[/quote]

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