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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) why not Hamm?

2) look closely at WL and how they are adding 600 student seats to an already overcrowded campus via office conversions[/quote]

W-L’s not overcrowded now and the trailers will disappear. W-L will be close to the size of the larger Fairfax County high schools as the new addition fills up. Wakefield is currently the most overcrowded school. Yorktown was accepting transfers from the W-L zone without preconditions, and that may have been extended to the Wakefield zone. But I’m not sure. [/quote]

[b]W-L will have the POPULATION of a large Fairfax school (2600) in a building built for 2000 students plus the office addition (some small lunch room, etc) on a campus that is a fraction of the size of a Fairfax school.[/b]

Yorktown doesn’t take WL transfers, and least not in last 2 years when our neighbor tried. [/quote]

Arlington citizens have been pushing for the dense urban concept schools for years. The new HB/Heights school in Rosslyn, the W-L addition, Career Center redevelopment, etc.. At least the W-L addition has a planetarium and doesn’t feel like an office building—like the ones in Ballston. I think it blends into the campus nicely and it overlooks the athletic fields. The building itself is very distinctive. [/quote]

You mean the planetarium APS keeps wanting to shut down?  
That isn't really an addition - [b]it's just a renovation and re-purposing of the old administrative office building[/b] which was next to the planetarium.[/quote]

I’ll have to see the W-L addition in person before judging. The whole building was gutted to the steel frame, so it’s not a cheapo renovation of offices. Also, APS just decided to fund the planetarium again. Re. the OP’s question, you really can’t go wrong with either Swanson or Williamsburg. Swanson does have a nice shaded front lawn, which is attractive. Williamsburg has the bigger campus and slightly newer facilities. Swanson is a historic district, so that school can’t grow much larger and the building can never change. A smaller middle school might be ideal for your family. [/quote]

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