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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How big is Immersion in middle school?

WMS is at 79% capacity, under 800 students.

They use these weasel words but don’t show the actual numbers:

“ None of the middle schools have the seats required to maintain a capacity utilization at or below 100%. As result of this analysis, the existence of the immersion program at any of the middle schools does not improve school capacity, transportation choices, or APS Transportation Services. ”

At 79%, WMS can likely accommodate all of Immersion and not exceed 105%. Change a couple of transfers or planning units and it’s done

Kenmore is at 91%, so sticking Immersion there causes the waterfall impact across dozens of planning units.

They aren’t even showing the numbers, just stating Kenmore is the answer. [/quote]

Are those the current numbers? I thought the numbers for the year that this potential move would happen are even lower than that— something like 65% for Wburg and in the low 80s for Kenmore. If memory serves.[/quote]

Current numbers.  I have heard WMS is 65% projection as well but I can’t document it. But yeah, no idea why Immersion to WMS isn’t the default — least disruption, least buses, [b]boosts diversity in No Arlington MS[/b]. [/quote]

Not if they're switching to an 80/20 model. Moving it to WMS would merely support making the program mostly for wealthy non-ELL. If that's the direction the program goes, it loses my support for retaining it as an option program. [/quote]

Immersion will only be 80/20 for the first few years of elementary. It’s 50/50 by mid-ES & beyond. So how is this relevant to MS?[/quote]

If they're implementing 80/20, it's ultimately going to be 80/20 in mid-ES and beyond once those grades matriculate. Or is the program going to be 80/20 for preK-2nd and then somehow suddenly become 50/50 3rd grade up?[/quote]

Spanish speakers can transfer in from other entry points unlike English speakers which must start in K. [/quote]

And you think a slew of Spanish speakers are going to suddenly transfer in in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades? To WMS? ok.[/quote]

The 80/20 model refers to the amount of instruction time in Spanish, NOT the percentage of Spanish/English speakers. [/quote]

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