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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poolesville HS’s new building was just completed in 2024. It was built with a core capacity of 1,800 students. This past school year, 1,309 students were enrolled at PHS, including 701 magnet students who are not zoned for PHS. Fewer than 10 students who were zoned for PHS enrolled at RMIB, the only other magnet program for which Poolesville students are eligible. That means PHS’s new building has a core capacity of nearly 3 times the roughly 610 students who are currently zoned for it.

MCPS wants to get rid of Poolesville’s existing magnet programs to move to a regional magnet system. This past year, out of the 16,380 students enrolled at 8 other upcounty high schools, PHS enrolled 700 of them in its magnet programs. Under the proposed regional magnet system, the catchment area from which PHS could enroll students only includes 4 other schools with a combined enrollment of 9,130. Unless multiple programs from the proposed 5 new magnet programs for Region 6 are housed at PHS, enrollment at PHS will plummet. Clearly, this was not the plan when funding was appropriated for PHS’s new building. Why are we abandoning plans we’ve already funded?[/quote]

Not only is Poolesville’s shiny, large new building exactly the kind of building meant to attract students from all over the county, but it was literally designed with the magnet programs in mind. The building has four “hubs,” one for each program (including ISP), which are even painted its program’s designated color. No other school looks like PHS — even another school built in 2024 wouldn’t — because the literal construction of the school was intended to serve the four programs. To alter Poolesville’s magnets after all of this won’t just waste MCPS a shit ton of money, but it’ll render the design of its brand new building pointless and irrelevant.[/quote]

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