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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rock View ES.[/quote]

I don't know if this is the OP or not, but Rock View and Garrett Park do not border each other's boundary.  There's a sliver of Beach Dr. where they're close, but another school's boundary is in between.  If it is the OP, you're not as close to GPES as you think you are.

But as other PPs have stated, your proximity or being "the next boundary over" has pretty much no value in your COSA application.

This comes up often, and I have written several times about my experience.  My kids attend school on a COSA that matches their grandparents' address, and is close to my work.  In our application, I stated as much and said that without a COSA, they would be in before and aftercare at school, which was a financial stretch (but not impossible) for us, and with the COSA, they would be with their grandparents when not in school.  I didn't exaggerate, just stated my reasons and hoped for the best, and it was approved.  I think it helped that the school we were trying for was "less desirable" than our home school, in that it's a Title I school.  [/quote]

I know a handful of people whose children attend OOB elementary schools on COSAs due to childcare.  If there is space in the receiving school, I think it fairly easy to get approved (principal's approve these).  I think the bigger issue is what to do when they are in MS and HS.  It is much more difficult to get an OOB spot.  Rock View is a great school by the way.  If you don't want to move, I would give it a try. [/quote]

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