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It's going to be hard to figure out who to move to Drew. It's 55% FARMS....and that's with half the school being Montessori transfers (although some of those kids are FARMS, a lot come from north Arlington.) They have to move some SFH neighborhoods into the Drew boundary. [/quote]

OP here---that is what I am thinking too-and why I think some of the SFH's currently zoned for Randolph will move to Drew.[/quote]

No. Randolph is 78% farms. I think it's the highest rate among all the south Arl schools ( interestingly, their scores aren't the lowest)
I can't imagine sfh's will be zoned out of Randolph. 
What neighborhood are you in op?[/quote]

After the SAWG process, it's clear the community does not want to decrease socioeconomic diversity at ANY schools (Patrick Henry's community is not the only consideration), so it's unlikely that SFH's currently feeding into Randolph or Barcroft will be rezoned to the new school, because then the other schools would have even fewer high SES kids zoned for them (Carlin Springs has the highest FARMS's rate, over 80% and approaching 90% I believe). And maybe many of those higher SES children currently zoned for those schools are "choicing out" now anyway, but if deliberate planning is done to move higher SES kids out of their current zones, socioeconomic diversity will not be possible. I really don't think the SB is looking to garner ire from a lot of the community. Since I don't think the SB wants to make things less diverse at Drew either, it's likely that some planning units now zoned for Oakridge will be moved to Drew. It's also possible that Hoffman Boston could be used for an alternate purpose (Pre-K could be moved out of neighborhood schools, freeing up more space at a number of neighborhood schools), and kids now at Hoffman Boston could be sent to Drew and the new school.  Patrick Henry is overcrowded right now, and now that it's been named a Blue Ribbon school, I think the SB should expect the population of kids to balloon and they need not increase the current boundary much, because I would bet many of the seats at the new elementary will be filled just with kids who are within the PH boundary by 2019.

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I agree with a lot of the above, but I think the general tone is shifting in these south Arlington neighborhoods. People are paying a lot to live in those neighborhoods now, and there are a few schools that have upped their game and are performing well. It's got parents zoned to the other schools agitated. Not to mention, many moved in 10 years ago ( before they had children) and choice schools were part of the equation. I'll be watching this with great interest. I think south Arlington is going to start behaving much more like north Arlington in the coming years. Especially in regards to how the county spreads and organizes their resources.[/quote]

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