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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]QO sees a massive decline in FARMS.[/quote]

I haven't really taken a look at the new maps or charts closely.

But there wasn't really any way that the QO's FARMS numbers wouldn't go down.

The areas pretty close to where Crown High, in particular the Fields Road Elementary area and areas further up Muddy Branch Road by NIST, have more affordable townhomes and apartments.  This includes the area behind Festival Shopping Center, which looks like it currently is an island that goes to Jones Lane ES and QO.

It's a reason why most of the options has Crown HS starting at 35 percent FARMS, because it takes a lot of the high FARMS area from QO.

They might've been able to try to balance it more by spreading out some areas between Crown HS, Northwest HS and QO HS, in particular that area around Festival Shopping Center.  Where the current commute times aren't that different from the Festival Shopping Center to each of the high schools:

QO
4.5 miles 12 minutes

Crown
2.9 miles 11 minutes

Northwest
6.6 miles 14 minutes

But based on distance, Crown HS is still the closest.  Which goes back to that location may not have been the best location to put a school but guess it was a matter of the free land.

The current proposals is still better than the initial.  Where in two of the  initial proposals, it had QO having its FARMS rate go down to around 13 and 15 percent.  So it looks like they did try to balance it a bit better than they did the first time around.[/quote]
QO’s own FARMs rate will go down, but being switched to Region 5 means our cohorts in the new special programs will be coming from schools with higher FARMs rates than if we had stayed in Region 6. QO itself will be fine, but students who want to attend special programs no longer have access to Poolesville. It’s a huge disappointment.[/quote]

This. The cohorts in the magnet will be from higher Farms rates schools and the region 5 magnet is probably going to be the worst. Good if your kid stays in QO but bad if your kid is a high achiever and gets into a magnet. [/quote]

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