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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ATS to Barcroft. Barcroft loses almost as many kids to choice school transfers as it has in the neighborhood. Alcova to Fleet. Divide Bacroft between Randolph and Barrett. Recapture the choice kids you are losing to those schools anyway!  Also, encourages S Arl students (and disadvantaged families) to take advantage of ATS.[/quote]

No room at Randolph for all the low income kids at Barcroft - they're not going to enter the lottery for ATS. And would prob give Randolph a farms rate higher than carlin springs. [/quote]

[b]Can't send half of Barcroft to Barrett either - you will upset the balance that exists at Barrett and keeps UMC families at the school. [/b]Don't want to undo 15 years of community buy-in and send Barrett parents scrambling for option schools as they did in the past before visionary former principal convinced Arlington Forest families that their kids would turn out fine. Barrett is one of the few high-FARMS schools that UMC families are happy with. It has a huge number of walkers and fairly balanced ethnic/racial/SES demographics. Not something to upset by playing the "where should we move ATS" game.[/quote]

Not PP, but I think the PU's that theoretically would be sent to Barrett from Barcroft would be the southern part of Arlington Forest, possibly the northern half of Barcroft. That's all SFH and townhouses, so not very many kids eligible for fr/l, primarily UMC families. I don't think this will happen because it's not walkable for little kids without a pedestrian bridge (same with CP). And as you noted, there's not enough room at Randolph for half the kids from the Barcroft neighborhood (Randolph boundary looks like it will remain largely intact, maybe reincorporating a few PU's from the Douglas Park neighborhood that are currently bused N of the Pike, during the boundary change because it's so walkable and has such a density of students). 
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