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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OK here are all these "high poverty" families that attend RHPS living? Rents and housing prices in that area aren't cheap.[/quote]

This is what I am wondering. Silver Spring prices and getting BCC is an amazing deal. Prices could be depressed because of a stigma of living Silver Spring BUT it can't be that bad. Since BCC is far, far better than any other school in Silver Spring it should be the most expensive area in Silver Spring.

I don't understand how RHPS can have low income families. Is there a subsidized apartment building that only allows low income residents, homeless shelter, or halfway house for ex cons with children or something? [/quote]

This is the myth that surrounds RHPS.  I have long heard the trope that if CCES (less so regarding NCC) were to be de-coupled from RHPS, there would be no one left but low income families.  The neighborhood that surrounds RPHS is filled with single family homes--lots of families with young kids, civil servants, etc.  There is one apartment complex near the school (Barrington) and some of the children from the Summit Hills complex go to RHPS; others go to Woodlin.  In my time at RHPS the children from the nearby apartments made up about 20% of the school population.  And it would be a stretch to say that all apartment dwelling families in are automatically low-income.

As for NCC and CCES converting to K-5 schools, that rumor has circulated for years.  It got a big second life when the 6th grade classes left NCC and CCES to go to Silver Creek/Westland.  There is a remarkable amount of infill development occuring in the NCC area (new townhomes at Chevy Chase Lake).  The school is bursting at the seams even with the new addition.  There is simply not the space in the school to handle a K-5 population.  [/quote]

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