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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll just point out again that it's not Longfellow enrollment trends that will force changes at Cooper.  It's the declining enrollment at Cooper and the overcrowding at Kilmer, which gets the Cooper AAP kids from Great Falls. [/quote]

So it's fair to all of a sudden overcrowd Cooper overnight and force kids into trailers when Longfellow just undertook a nice renovation to increase capacity (I can't comment on Kilmer since I know nothing about their building or future renovation plans).[/quote]

If you don't know the facts about Kilmer, you can't comment sensibly on the topic.

Kilmer was renovated about a decade ago.  It got a nice renovation, but it's not due to be renovated any time soon.  It's currently about 150 students over capacity, and is projected to be 400 students over capacity in a few years.

Longfellow was renovated a few years ago, and its capacity was expanded as part of the renovation.  But it's still projected to be 200 students over capacity in a few years.

Cooper, in comparison, has a declining enrollment, due to two things:  (1) the neighborhoods that feed into Cooper are aging and expensive; and (2) it exports a large number of AAP kids to Kilmer (from Great Falls) and Longfellow (from McLean).  It is currently 350 students below its stated capacity, and projected to be almost 400 students under capacity in a few years.

With those dynamics, particularly at Kilmer, FCPS really can't permit Cooper to become a school with around 700 students when Kilmer and Longfellow would have twice as many students and would be seriously overcrowded.   There are only a few ways to deal with the issue:  (1) add AAP at Cooper, (2) tighten standards for AAP or (3) change the base boundaries.  Doing nothing won't be an option, and changing the base boundaries would increase the ratio of AAP to non-AAP students at Kilmer and Longfellow at a time when there's already concern about how non-AAP students feel at those schools. [/quote]

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