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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HB is not meaningfully increasing class size. Fall 2018: HB will have 249 MS and 440 HS students. Fall 2026: HB will have 279 MS and 440 HS students. HB is adding 10 kids to each MS class-- 30 kids total. That's it.

Meanwhile by 2026: WF will have 3,294 HS students, WJ will have 2,101 students, and YT will have 2,642 students-- that's 8,000 high school kids, in three existing high school buildings that are only built to hold 6,500 total. These are the APS projections posted to the APS website, not made up numbers.

You have to be completely clueless to not understand why there are so many elementary school parents who are pissed off about the decision to spend $100M in bond funding to build HB without meaningfully adding more capacity. The current CIP conversations right now are a complete disaster. They have no viable solution to create sufficient high school seats by 2026 with the available bond funding.  [/quote]

HB has already started expanding in anticipation of the move and is currently the most overcrowded relative to capacity. Four years ago it only had 625 students, now it has 665, and is going up to 725. That's a 15 percent increase.

I'm not completely clueless. I remember perfectly well that the SB planned to use the bond money to build a 1300 seat middle school and leave HB where it was, and the north Arlington parents screamed bloody murder about their snowflakes being bussed to Rosslyn. [/quote]

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