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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Northwood is getting a new and larger building. Kennedy just got a larger building. Their space will alleviate Blair's overcrowding, and probably some of Wheaton's and Einstein's. Woodward is reopening as a new building. Its space will alleviate WJ's overcrowding and probably the rest of Wheaton's and Einstein's. BCC and Whitman are in the study too to allow for additional options that may make things work better. [/quote]

Look at the projections (currently to 2029-30):

WW/BCC/WJ
Capacity 6992
Enrollment 7359 (367 over capacity, or 5%)

Blair/Northwood/Kennedy
Capacity 7308
Enrollment 7302 (6 under capacity, or 0%)

Einstein/Wheaton
Capacity 3839
Enrollment 4756 (917 over capacity, or 24%)

This includes new Northwood capacity but not Woodward.  And WJ has all the overage in the first set -- WW & BCC remain under capacity (and could take on some small amount of shift).  And Blair has all the overage in the second set, while both Wheaton and Einstein are over in the third.  This is versus current catchments.

Even to get to that enrollment = capacity for the middle three, you'd need to bus large numbers past Blair and up to Northwood, shifting some of Northwood to Kennedy.  And that's with none of the overage from Einstein & Wheaton -- all that Northwood & Kennedy capacity is used already.

This means large portions of Einstein and Wheaton will need to go to Woodward or shift to BCC, presuming Woodward naturally assumes more of the existing WJ catchment than needed to alleviate WJ's overcrowding.  Possibly even some of the lower Northwood and Blair catchments to even out the enrollment vs. capacity once Woodward's 2160 comes online after Northwood moves out (the additional 540 might come online in a later phase, now, if funded).  That's 882 seats across 8 high schools in 2029-30, and we know that the DCC is likely to continue growing faster than WW/BCC/WJ after the current projection timeline, so there might be greater shifts than some anticipate.

Unless the Ws keep up the pressure, of course.  Then we'll have the expected: overcrowded DCC and under capacity Ws, with no solution for inside-the-beltway/east of the MARC tracks.[/quote]

It would make so much more sense if they would just build the addition at Einstein too.[/quote]

Einstein is ancient.  It needs fully replaced, not an addition.  They could easily add on top.[/quote]

Einstein isn't ancient. It's a year older than Blair.[/quote]

Have you been in Einstein and Blair to actually compare the two? Einstein was built in the 1960s and renovated in the early/mid 90s. The renovation mainly included adding on a new gym. There are lots of spaces in that school that indeed look ancient. The auditorium and performance spaces (like band room) have not been touched since the 1960s. The cafeteria was never enlarged. Blair had an entire new building built in 1998. Nobody would walk around these two schools and think Einstein was built at the same time as Blair. Newport Mill is even more embarassing than Einstein. It is just a FU to all of us zoned to Rockview/Newport Mill/Einstein.[/quote]

Einstein's renovation was in 1997. [/quote]

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