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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But also putting AAP at Irving will make it even more crowded. Plus some of those AAP kids that choose to go to LBSS for AAP find a way to stay there for high school years. Now they'll all be at Irving/WSHS.

I was also interested to hear at the region 4 meeting that, when pushed on the numbers predicting capacity for 26-27 with the boundary changes, they never ran the numbers for what the 26-27 numbers would be without any changes. Everything is based on the 24-25 student numbers, even though it should be pretty easy to calculate/predict accurate 26-27 numbers.

I know a lot of people think WSHS will be smaller anyway in the coming years (I think the 2026 class is enormous), so again people were annoyed that the consulting company didn't do this when it seems like it shouldn't be that hard and would be common sense to look at.

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It would be 2 additional classrooms per grade, 4 total classes of kids.

The 6th grade classes are smaller than the 8th grade classes, when you factor in the class of out of bound AAP kids who attend Keene Mill Elementary

My suggestion for the WSHS pyramid is:

Stick with Map 3 for Rolling Valley, sending the entire RV island to Saratoga and keeping them at Lewis.

This will open up a lot of space at RV.

Move the WSHS AAP program to Rolling Valley.  Send ALL of the WSHS AAP level 4 kids to Rolling Valley, including the OH and HV kids at Sangster.  It is centrally located and will have space.

Send all the non WSHS pyramid AAP kids at Keene Mill back to their own pyramid AAP schools.

Move the Cardinal Forest neighborhoods in Map 4 to Keene Mill as planned

Move Sangster to LB as recommended in all the maps

Move the Keene Mill island to White Oaks/ LB as recommended in map 4

*** for the White Oaks neighborhood upset about getting rezoned to Cherry Run because siblings will be split up since White Oaks is AAP and Cherry Run is not, send those few streets to Sangster instead, which will have space if the OH and HV kids go to the WSHS pyramid AAP center instead of the LB AAP center.[/quote]

Though Rolling Valley looks like it would have space on paper (76% capacity in scenario 3), that is misleading because it has both a special ed program and an autism program. Those classrooms use TONS of classroom space per child. There is no way that school could accommodate the full AAP program. There would be room to move some students there from Orange Hunt or Cardinal Forest, though, which share boundaries, if needed. [/quote]

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