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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to clarify re Montessori - there has not typically been much of a wait list for elementary Montessori because Drew has had capacity to simply add another Montessori classroom whenever demand exceeded current spaces (and there has been a lot of growth in the elementary program over the last decade).  APS has stated that they won't do that next year, and so there will be a wait list (I personally know many families from APS satellite preschool classrooms and private Montessori preschools who are applying next year).

In addition, APS is now proposing that the new Montessori school in the Henry building will go up to 8th grade (moving over the MS students from Gunston).  This will stop all growth in the program and may serve to shrink it.  Gunston too has been adding MS capacity to meet demand.  The Henry building has a capacity of 463 (with 6 trailers it is currently at 615 - at 132.8% capacity).  In order to accommodate the MS students and allow all ES students to continue through MS, the Montessori school would need 700 seats.  They won't all fit at Henry.

Campbell also has a wait list (I know because my kid is on it).  Once admission is opened to countywide, I'm sure demand will increase.

ATS also has a wait list, though that school was scheduled to be expanded a couple of CIPs ago and the [b]ATS community rejected that.[/b]  So perhaps it's appropriate to leave them as is.

I agree that Reed should probably be a neighborhood school.  IB in elementary isn't well established and there is much greater interest in Arlington for other alternative models.[/quote]

don't think that's true[/quote]

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