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Woodward has room for 2700 seats, but I seriously doubt they'd fill it to capacity on day 1.

I'd imagine WJ will contribute 800-1000 students to Woodward. Around 700 to address it's overcrowding directly and shift a few hundred from Whitman to WJ to address overcrowding there too.

That still leaves 1700-1900 seats to fill at Woodward. The simplest solution is to fill them from the adjacent schools.

Since Einstein is around 700 over capacity it would likely contribute the lions share. I'd wager B-CC ends up giving 400-500 too, but 200 minimum to offset future overcrowding at B-CC.

Now Northwood is right next to Blair and it's expansion creates 1200 additional seats there. Roughly 700 are needed to address Northwood's overcrowding by 2022. That means 400-500 will likely go to address Blair's overcrowding. Now Blair will need around 700 total seats so they'll a couple hundred short. Those seats will likely come from the two schools directly adjacent to its West. Those schools are also adjacent to Woodward so it's easy to make the room. Sure the County could put the burden entirely on Einstein but why would B-CC get a pass?

It's all total speculation so I wouldn't get worked up over it. Do you remember those puzzle games you played as a kid that you solve by shifting the blocks? If your goal is to optimally fill these schools, make minimal changes to the overall map without busing people across the county that's how it could play out. 
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Hard to guess what things will look like in four or more years, but this a practical way to address the overcrowding with current and planned resources.
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Except that BCC is getting an addition that will keep it at capacity for at least another decade. Someone here really wants to blow up the BCC zone, I don't know why since it's already the most diverse Bethesda HS and thanks to the addition and a new middle school, the BCC zone won't have overcrowding problems anymore. Woodward will be mainly drawn from WJ and the overcrowded DCC schools. If they want to do some boundary tinkering to shake up the rich, white Bethesda crowd, MCPS is more likely to pull an elementary out of Whitman into Woodward.[/quote]

The county's projections show B-CC overcapacity even with its addition by 2022 when Woodward opens. It's also easy to shift kids around its boundary to solve overcrowding with neighboring schools given its proximity to Woodward..[/quote]

I thought the same thing until I looked at the map. The area zoned for Burning Tree Elementary is right next to the area zoned for Ashburton and just as close to Woodward as all the potential BCC elementaries. This is going to be fun  :twisted: [/quote]

I doubt they'll touch BCC.  It's already an ideal example of high and middle/lower income working well in one school district. They have a real opportunity to do something similar with WJ/Woodward.  Since proximity is important, I think you could see one of the Whitman outlying elementary schools (Burning Tree or Bradley Hills) get rezoned for WJ or Woodward.  Westbrook honestly would make more sense to go to Whitman than BCC, so it could take the space  in Whitman vacated by Burning Tree or Bradley Hills.  No way North Chevy Chase gets redistricted in full - it's within a mile of BCC and it brings most of BCC's economic diversity.  Maybe the outside-the-beltway portions of North Chevy Chase go to Walter Johnson or Woodward.  
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