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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]well then even one more choice school. He school board is already committed to building 2 more elementary schools.[/quote]

No they haven't. The CIP up for SB approval on June 16 contains money to turn Reed into an ES and put additions on two existing ES. (The new ES that they are building in S. Arlington now is coming from the last round of CIP funds.) If you want to build another choice school, I am fine with it. I think we could use another immersion school in the County. But why put it at Reed, which is about as far west in the county as you can get? That isn't even close to where the worst overcrowding in Arlington is predicted.  Go look at the APS utilization spreadsheet for 2020/21-- for Reed to work as a 725 student choice school that year, you have to assume that the majority of students are coming from the ASF/Key, Long Branch, and overcrowded South Arlington districts-- that they will be willing to backtrack all the way to Westover every day for school. Otherwise you have not made a dent in the overcrowding. That is a huge assumption, with no data behind it. Our best proxy is the ATS experience-- and I think the low South Arlington enrollment at ATS shows that people just aren't willing to travel that far for a choice school in west Arlington.  Remember, Ashlawn and Glebe transfers alone make up 25% of the ATS student body-- which makes sense b/c most of these kids are in the ATS neighborhood. Build another choice school- but do it in a more sensible location that solves the problem of overcrowding- which is why we are building a new ES in the first place. APS is just picking Reed because it is the cheapest option and they already own the building, not because it is in any way an ideal geographic location to solve overcrowding or best serve our kids in either N or S Arlington.[/quote]

Everyone I know in south Arlington tries for ATS. They don't care how far it is. They just don't get the slots. Luck of the draw.[/quote]

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