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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right now, buy into or at least rent in the KEY district.  That gives you guaranteed admissions.  They are supposedly some slots (if Key doesn't fill the grade) for Taylor or Jamestown, but those are like unicorns.  Watch out, though.  The SB might be making a lot of changes to that area.[/quote]

The boundary for ASFS is about to be radically changed -- there is No way to know if you will be in bound (currently living near it is not in boundary for example).

There is a [b]possibility that Key and ASFS will swap campuses [/b]since Key is becoming a pure lottery immersion, and then ASFS will be in boundary. Or they will redraw boundaries and some key parts will go elsewhere and some Taylor parts go to ASFS.

Buy a neighborhood you like, in a house you like near a few schools you are ok with. There are guarantees now. And watch the high school changes coming -- they could be disruptive. [/quote]

While this may very well happen, it would somewhat surprise me considering how much money the ASFS PTA and parents have invested in the building and its outdoor space over the years for various science-related teaching tools, including raising at least $150,000 less than two years ago for the science lab called investigation station.  Not saying Key, if the schools swap buildings, wouldn't benefit from all of this but it seems kind of crazy for ASFS to leave it all behind and have to start all over again without it.

I'm a former long time ASFS parent - do not move to a home just for this school.  Not worth it.[/quote]

This is just one parent's wishful thinking. They're not swapping buildings. [/quote]
Not true-- it was brought up at a pta meeting as one of the options being considered.  Since [b]it's considered a neighborhood school now[/b], moving it to a building in the actual neighborhood it's supposed to be serving makes sense.  Especially since key is a larger building and could better accommodate the increased capacity of the neighborhood.  Since the immersion program is an option program they could limit the size to fit within the asfs building.
There is also more space at key to grow as the number of kids in the neighborhood grows.  The main thing is that the school would lose the science labs and outdoor space/gardens that have been added to help supplement the curriculum.  There's a trade off because if they redraw the lines you lose a lot of the diversity that makes the school a great environment.  [/quote]

The only people who consider ASFS a neighborhood school are the people in the Key/ASFS boundaries who don't want to attend Key and hope that they don't lose their automatic admission to ASFS.

APS considers it a team school with priority based first on Key/ASFS zone families who don't want Key, then Taylor and Jamestown and then ultimately the rest of the county - even if in practical application only Key/ASFS families are  now admitted.  This is how the team used to work and students from all over the county attended ASFS.

And the rest of the county probably considers it very unfair - a choice school for which they aren't even able to enter the lottery. [/quote]

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