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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For example, you could live in Highland View, a decent neighborhood, but be zoned for New Hampshire Estates ES, which is a deal breaker.[/quote]
I don't think people living in Highland view are zoned for New Hampshire Estates. The neighborhood across flower and south of East Franklin is not Highland View. I think maybe it is Sligo Branview. That neighborhood does happen to be closer to Highland view elementary school than some neighborhoods that are actually zoned for Highland View ES, but that is anotherr story.[/quote]

The New Hampshire Estates zone is really weird, which I think is because New Hampshire Estates and Rolling Terrace are super close to one another.  http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/NewHampshireEstatesOakViewES.pdf[/quote]
I think it has more to do with the fact that Oakview and NHE are paired schools. So they have to get the whole NHE catchment area and the whole Oakview catchment area into the same schools. And those two schools are each very close to rolling Terrace ES and Highland View ES respectively.[/quote]

The history has almost nothing to do with geography, and is a bit of a sore subject with many people.  There was a civil rights lawsuit over it when it first went into effect.  I think the take away is that a lot of the school assignment zones are very counter-intuitive in that area, but it's easy to verify your assignment using MCPS's online tool. The Sligo Branview neighborhood is very cute and a lot of people get transfers to Highland View.  [/quote]

What was the lawsuit about?  I don't have a dog in that fight, but I've always found the boundary interesting.  [/quote]

I think the reason for having this pairing arrangement was ostensibly to balance the socioeconomic composition of the schools.  The lawsuit, I think, alleged that the arrangement actually caused the schools to have a higher concentration of poverty and was effectively grouping all of the disadvantaged kids into one school. I'm sure I've grossly oversimplified the issue.  There has been a lot of fighting about it over the years.  Their was an unsuccessful effort to unpair NHE and Oak View a few years ago. [/quote]

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