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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone on this listserv says the county will never create another HB Woodlawn. I frankly think after taking the survey that people need to ask that this be considered. [b]What is the point of an expansion of an Ed Center if it ends up underenrolled? We want an option that people want, so that overenrollments in existing comprehensive schools drops. This is not complicated! If 4% of the list gets into HBWoodlawn right now, open up a second school on a progressive education model, and reduce overcrowding with a school that p[/b]arents want to send their children to.

I could not get into any of the four options listed. If IB continues at WL, how does IB at Ed Center change anything? None of the other options make a lot of sense to me. [b]They smell to me like programs begging to be under-filled, while enrollments surge at the other schools.[/b][/quote]

+1.

By the fall of 2021, APS projects that Wakefield will have 2,316 students, Yorktown 2,282 students and Washington-Lee a whopping 2,906 students.  And this is all assuming that Arlington Tech is a success and 700 students are enrolled. The SB absolutely must come up with a plan for the Ed Center and the additional seats at the career center that will actually attract lots of students who are within the W-L boundaries and eventually the Wakefield boundaries, since those are the two HS projected to be most overcrowded in the next decade.

Meanwhile, in the fall of 2021 HB's high school component is projected to enroll 440 students.  And by the fall of 2026 when Wakefield is projected to have 2,947 students, Washington-Lee 3,127 students and Yorktown 2,336 students - well, HB's high school  will still be at 440 students.  So unless an HB style program at the Ed Center or career center actually enrolls between 700 and 800 high school students, another HB at either location will not reduce overcrowding to the degree needed.[/quote]

These numbers are huge (and probably underestimate the actual numbers given APS's poor track record).  If another HB were to be opened at Arlington Tech and the Ed Center, trust me there would be enough interest.  The other types of programs all strike me as blah.[/quote]

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