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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are the projections that Shrevewood will be at 92% capacity in 2026? That's insane given how overcrowded it was pre-pandemic. TONS of high income families left for private over the past two years and a lot of the AAP kids left for Lemon Road. That doesn't help those of us with kids who are in regular, non-AAP classes, though. They are still overcrowded, even after principal placement.[/quote]

Yep. The new principal at Shrevewood was waking into a mess of overcrowding created by the former principal when she sat up the “local level IV” AAP instruction model at Shrevewood. She was an ineffective leader with a brilliant stroke of genius in that plan that effectively saved her job! By adding an AAP class to Shrevewood one grade-level at a time for four straight years, she was able retain the high test-scorers that used to defect to Lemon Road. And yes, it created a horrible overcrowding issue at Shrevewood, but this simple maneuver of retaining one more grade of high test scorers every year until there was an AAP class in every grade from 3rd to 6th, the school’s testing performance increased every single year, so it made it appear on paper that her leadership was yielding incredible results.

New principal has plenty of faults too, but he inherited the overcrowding and the feelings of resentment that the presence of local level AAP created within the school’s culture. 
The parents whose kids left for lemon road AAP in the past couple of years didn’t have a choice because new principal shut down local level IV. He knows it’s  an immediate solution to the overcrowding because they’ll go to their AAP center. And maybe it will fix the 2-tiered culture that had infiltrated Shrevewood too. That’s not a terrible thing. Not sure he’s prepared to answer for the test score slide that will result in grades 3-6, but maybe he won’t have to.
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If you thought Shrevewood was still overcrowded then the solution was to move part of Shrevewood to Stenwood and part of Stenwood to Freedom Hill. That could have been done already and expeditiously without waiting for years for Dunn Loring to get built and create a glut of space.  Either way, there has been a significant reduction in Shrevewood’s enrollment in recent years and it is now projected in the CIP to remain below capacity. [/quote]

The CIP projections are especially useless post-COVID.  While Shrevewood may stay below capacity, the current low enrollment cohort (3rd/4th grade) will roll off in a few years.[/quote]

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