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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who does everyone think is going to get moved out of Churchill and where will they go when they realize Churchill does actually end up at 112% capacity in Taylor's plan.[/quote]

Wayside to Lakewood to Frost to Churchill [/quote]

That makes no sense. To answer the prior poster, likely a few small parts of Seven Locks ES move to Whitman and WJ, some parts of the areas of Potomac ES and Wayside ES that were moving to Wootton in options C & D move to Travilah and Stone Mill/Lakewood respectively, possibly part of Cold Spring moves to Ritchie Park. Then within Potomac, Wayside, Bells Mill, Seven Locks and Beverly Farms you have intra cluster shuffling.

I think it’s pretty much going to be set that Elementary Schools do not change clusters, like Option H set those five schools plus Cold Spring as Churchill feeders. None of those will move from Churchill, however their own boundaries will shift and some areas could be moved from the elementary school and therefore moved from the high school.

Similar vein I don’t think Farmland is all the sudden being moved to WJ, or Wheaton Woods to Wheaton, but parts of those schools could be moved to different elementary schools resulting in new high schools for those parts. [/quote]

Sending all of Seven Locks ES to Whitman would be the easiest fix. The Cold Spring aspect is relevant, though. Since they’re trying to get rid of islands they will likely move Falls Grove out of Ritchie Park, which would likely move someone near Ritchie Park to move in. That said, given Cold Spring is projected to hover around 80% capacity, it probably wouldn’t get closed.

Going back to the idea of northern Wayside/Potomac areas moving into Wootton as an alternative to moving Seven Locks to Whitman, that would require someone to move out of Wootton at Crown, namely DuFief. But DuFief could only be moved out to QO if northern parts of Rachel Carson and the Diamond and Thurgood Marshall Islands are shifted to Gaithersburg HS. Theoretically that’s possible because GHS sits at 87% capacity, but it would probably be pretty unpopular and be seen as a way of further consolidating wealthy students at QO and FARMS at GHS. [/quote]

Cold Spring is at about 75% capacity currently, but that includes the CES kids. There’s a big unanswered question about what will happen to the specialty programs that are housed at these massively underenrolled schools  (similar to the special education program at Dufief), but I do not see them moving any of the kids who are zoned for Cold Springs unless they are fully closing the school, which I have to imagine is very much on the table, given both the under enrollment and the fact that it is on the CIP and MCPS could immediately reallocate that funding to all the many other schools that need it.

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Well if they do close Cold Spring I would imagine best bet is they’re redistricted to Ritchie Park, which is at 84% capacity currently and is also slated to lose the Fallsgrove portion of its community given that’s an island assignment. [/quote]

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