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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should change the Lee/West Springfield boundaries for sure.  Top reason for changes is to address overcrowding. Sounds like that’s been an ongoing problem at WSHS. [/quote]

It is not an issue. That was a temporary issue.[/quote]

FCPS has West Springfield at 10% over capacity by 2023.[/quote]

The West Springfield boundaries are hard because they’re relatively compact, not all gerrymandered like the boundaries are in the western part of the county. The most logical thing to do there isn’t to send kids to Lee, it’s to send kids from the southern part of the attendance area to also under-enrolled but physically closer South County. But, if the decisions have to be made with an eye toward balancing SES factors, that would mean sending feeders to Lee even if it makes Lee have a huge attendance area. [/quote]

NP: not gerrymandered? Daventry played so many games to get realigned from lee to ws. They should have been moving all the houses along okm up until Greely to Lee to alleviate wshs overcrowding pre renovation. Instead, the wealthiest lee subset managed to get realigned to ws. Saratoga houses are trying to follow suit to south county. I taught at key for years. The boundaries are made not by what benefits the majority of children, but what benefits the wealthiest of children.[/quote]

Not at all gerrymandered.

It is a compact circle, not a bunch of tentacles.

WSHS is set up like a neighborhood school. Fcps should use that as a model. If you look at results, the neighborhood school works well for all the kids, especially lower performing groups. [/quote]

Daventry and Hunt Valley should never have been moved out of Lee. They were by far the wealthiest elementary schools feeding Lee. Both single digit F/R lunch numbers. All the other feeders are high F/R. Lee has also been several hundred students under enrolled since they moved Hunt Valley out.

There is no going back now. FCPS screwed Lee.[/quote]

When was Hunt Valley zoned for Lee? That’s a hike. West Springfield or SC are both closer. I realize physical proximity isn’t the only concern, but Hunt Valley to Lee is a bad drive in the mornings.

And Daventry is just one neighborhood, not going to make that much of a difference either way. Though the way they did the move was somewhat under the table, I’ll give you that. [/quote]

Before South County opened, the southern portion of Hunt Valley was zoned for Lee.  (The northern part was zoned for West Springfield.)  That area was not slated to move in FCPS's initial boundary proposals for opening South County, but the community saw their opportunity, I guess, and tried to get themselves moved to either South County or West Springfield.    [/quote]

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