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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Hunt Valley is the farthest WSHS neighborhood from Lee.

There are the least logical elementary to be rezoned to Lee. There are more than a half dozen elementary schools between hunt valley and Lee HS.[/quote]

Straight down the Parkway from Gambrill is an easy drive to Lee for Hunt Valley students. That does not take you by any other elementary schools. Though it does take you through the Rolling Valley area - the part that goes to Lee.[/quote]

The parkway takes HV kids past at least 4 other elementary schools.[/quote]

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