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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some former Ashlawn ES / Washington-Liberty zoned neighborhoods fought to be rezoned back to W-L from Yorktown, but that didn’t happen since they are outside the W-L walk zone and Yorktown has lots of room. Like the other formerly W-L zoned neighborhoods, such as those north of Lee Highway like Dover Crystal, Woodmont, etc, there are no plans to move them back to W-L. The superintendent (in response to those neighborhoods advocating a return to W-L) said students can apply for an administrative transfer into W-L, as Arlnow reported last year. But I doubt that’s guaranteed and likely based on available space at W-L. [/quote]

Is Yorktown really that bad? It’s at least not overcrowded…[/quote]

Part of the reason is that possibly one small planning unit of Ashlawn kids will end up at Yorktown.  Ashlawn is one of those ES that split between 3 middle schools and now 3 high schools.  The neighborhoods in question were hoping for a bit more continuity for the kids.  Not my neighborhood but I found it to be more of a valid argument than APS staff did apparently.[/quote]

Ashlawn kids go to either Swanson or Kenmore for middle school.[/quote]

And they’re not alone in the split feeder pattern. My neighborhood also splits from ES to MS and then the MS splits to two different HS. That’s part of living on the edges of boundaries. I think a lot of kids from that “island” just apply to the IB program to transfer, just like kids from my neighborhood. It is what it is. [/quote]

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