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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here, they did NOT expand classroom space. There will only be two classes per grade now as before. It was like Murch in that full buildings were temporary buildings.

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This is a distinction without a difference.  While technically it may be true that simply converting today's portable classroom space into brick and mortar classrooms is not expanding current instructional space, it ignores the fact that trailers were added pre-renovation to address an enlarged student body that exceeded the capacity of the old building.  Wouldn't the prudent thing have been to ratchet back the OOB enrollment as IB enrollment climbed, rather than build such a large addition to accommodate a "new normal" school population that is still above 80% OOB?[/quote]

No because that is eventually where the Murch and Janney overflow will land. [/quote]

I don't necessarily see IB enrollment at the JKLM schools continuing to increase at recent rates.   This may seem anecdotal, but neighborhood housing turnover seems to go in cycles rather than at a steady rate.  Look, for example, at how little inventory there is in AU Park of houses for sale.  Once kids get through Janney, those kids will go on to Deal, Wilson or somewhere else, and it's likely that their parents may stay as empty nesters for some years after that.  So there may be fewer young families with young kids moving into the area in the foreseeable future.  The result may be that the schools are overbuilding for what their neighborhood school populations may be in 8 or 10 years and the schools will therefore become more city-wide rather than local in orientation.[/quote]

That doesn't account for the large apartment building population in bound for Murch and Hearst, which has lots of turnover and always will. Now they are building more. Also the so-called Cluster 12 where Murch sits is projected to have one of the largest child population booms in the city (according to city reports).[/quote]

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