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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Current projections don't really show us needing a 4th HS right now. All the classes in the pipeline (current K and up) are around 2000-2100 students, that means we need about 8200 HS seats.

That's:
W&L 2700
Wakefield 2100
Yorktown 2100
HB 450
CC  800 (assuming they add 300 or so in the next 4-5 years)
Shriver/Langston/New Directions 100

That's 8250.

So we have enough HS seats, but just barely. It probably would be smart to grow Tech to 800 not 600 to give us a bit more breathing room, but there's not a mad rush to build more than that.

By the same logic, MS seats are also fine. That's 6200 or so MS seats, which is 6 1000K MS + HB. So also fine.

All that said, the boundaries need to be done really well. Because we need to fill all the seats to make it work.[/quote]

You are using enrollment numbers, not seat capacity numbers.  The point is that our current buildings are overcrowded (except for HB).
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I thought PP was saying with WL addition, and probably trailers at YT and WK, we have enough capacity for the enrollment pipeline. If we had 3000 at WL, then would have a crisis.

Isn’t HB also expanding enrollment to relive the other schools?[/quote]

LOL, you are the new resident, right?  APS will never increase capacity at HB because it "would ruin the program."  APS just spent $120 million on the building and still spending more to fix it's construction problems (for the brand new, cutting edge building).  APS does not know how to manage a construction budget or how to do urban planning, but somehow it has been tasked with this by the County.

I think 3,000 students at WL is highly likely.  We've also been told that Yorktown can't take trailers, so...[/quote]

Hasn’t the news changed on HB after pandemic?
At least the new addition at WL adds more common space like cafeteria etc?[/quote]

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