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Forest Oak MS is completely surrounded by a neighborhood that is bused to another MS and all the students that attend Forest Oak are bused in. There are 3 middle schools in close proximity along Midcounty/Watkins Mill, plus two others that feed three high schools that end up with a full demographic range of students. If the BOE is willing to look broadly at those three clusters, I'm sure something with more even diversity and fewer long bus rides could be worked out.[/quote]

Forest Oak MS: 57% FARMs, 74% ever FARMs, 6% Asian, 26% black, 54% Hispanic, 10% white
Montgomery Village MS: 67% FARMs, 85% ever FARMs, 7% Asian, 33% black, 53% Hispanic, [u]<[/u]5% white
Gaithersburg MS (which, famously, includes kids who take the bus from Laytonsville): 47% FARMs, 63% ever FARMs, 7% Asian, 21% black, 49% Hispanic, 19% white

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Shady Grove MS: 43% FARMs, 59% ever FARMs, 11% Asian, 21% black, 42% Hispanic, 22% white

and I don't know what the second other middle school is that you had in mind.

Arguably you could rezone so that Forest Oak MS could have lots of poor kids who walk, rather than lots of poor kids who arrive by bus. But I don't think there's any way to rezone Forest Oak MS so that there are more kids who walk AND it's a lower-poverty school.

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