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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ashlawn will not sweep into Barcroft. Why would it when Barrett is just across 50? Some families in Barcroft are closer to Barrett than Barcroft elementary.[/quote]

If Barrett isn't going to be an option site (which it's not), they're not going to break it up just to bus kids across 50. Barrett is highly walkable (80%), and high FARMS (62%). Why would you put so many walkers on buses just to move Barcroft kids from one high-FARMS school to another? Ashlawn, at 37% walkers and 19% FARMS, doesn't have this issue so it makes more sense as the school to stretch across 50. The reason for the dog-leg is to avoid only taking the most affluent areas of Glen Carlyn across 50 to Ashlawn but instead to pick up more of the lower-income stretches east of there that are driving up FARMS rates and create better FARMS balance across the SW zone.[/quote]

Shifting Southside Arlington Forest or the northern part of Barcroft to Barrett would help lower the FARMS rate at Barrett. For many years Barcroft students who wanted to opt out of the year round program were sent to Barrett unless they were accepted at an option program. [/quote]

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