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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As previously stated, the change is only for the town center.  It’s not like the entire RM district would be changed.  You’re blowing this out of proportion.[/quote]

Anywhere where the TC kids go would be impacted. JWMS would be impacted. The TC development would impact either Beall or BRES.  The South Pike development would impact Bayard Rustin ES. And under MCPS new FAA policy, BOE might decide to move kids from BRES to say RPES, Beall, or even CGES. 
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The town center is at Beall.  The projections after the move gave it at only 80% capacity so it is fine.[b]  There won’t be many kids living in condos in Rockville anyway.[/b]  It’s not Bethesda or DC.[/quote]

[b]That is the mCPS line and it is NOT TRUE.  Yes, kids do live in condos.[/b]  [/quote]

When has MCPS ever said that no kids live in condos? Everybody knows that kids live in condos. MCPS has lots of bus stops at condo buildings.

These are the numbers for MCPS students per residential unit in the southwestern part of the county, which includes the Richard Montgomery HS cluster. They are based on the addresses students provide to MCPS as their home addresses:

451 K-12 students per 1,000 single-family detached houses
408 K-12 students per 1,000 single-family attached houses
291 K-12 students per 1,000 units in low/mid-rise multi-family buildings
108 K-12 students per 1,000 units in high-rise multi-family buildings

As far as I know, the proposed buildings at Rockville Town Center and Twinbrook all are in the high-rise multi-family category. So for every 1,000 units, we should expect [b]55 elementary-school students, 22 middle-school students, and 31 high-school students.[/b][/quote]

[b]I assume you're just applying the percentage of overall student population in elementary/middle/high to those increase numbers to get the breakdown. [/b] But I would assume in the high rise condos the percentages skew towards elementary school. What is the evidence that new condos in Town Center are going to lead to a huge increase in students at RM?[/quote]

No. See p. 16:

http://montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621AnnualSchoolTestPBPres.pdf[/quote]

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