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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the concern here? They are both top-performing schools with less than 5% FARMS in the same school pyramid. What does the boundary matter? It seems like Oxford vs. Cambridge. [/quote]
One is more crowded than the other.[/quote]

+1  Somerset is enrolled at 130% of capacity and Westbrook is underenrolled. My kid attends one of these schools and I don't think there's any particular acrimony about changing the boundaries.[/quote]

Agree.  The only wrinkle is that now that the Save Westbard lunatics have finally lost, that development will go forward.  I have a suspicion that it is planned for Westbrook/Westland, rather than Wood Acres/Pyle (where it's currently zoned).  That, plus the apartments on Willard that likely will switch to Westbrook, would put a strain Westbrook.  Of course, that won't be for years, and it may be that they just deal with that at the time to alleviste the crowding at Somerset.  [/quote]

It's not a suspicion.  It's a dead lock certainty that the Willard high-rises and [future] Westbard will be moved over to Westbrook before a single house in the Town of Somerset is moved.  It makes sense to do that in terms of keeping that community/town together, but it clearly also is the path of least resistance for the county.  Even though you can easily walk to Somerset ES from the Willard neighborhood by cutting through the park (although there's a school bus).  They would need to bus the Willard kids to Westbrook because of River, just like they do the kids in Brookdale.[/quote]

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