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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I had a way of overlaying the demographics and the proximity maps on top of each other.  I think they intentionally find the stupidest map they can create for demographics just to make people see how ridiculous boundaries would be if we consider diversity.

Someone who has a better visualization ability than I do:  what would things look like if we concocted a mash-up of proximity and diversity?
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You don't need a mapping program or spatial analysis to do this. Low income students are highly, highly concentrated in specific planning units. Basically, the Pike west of Glebe needs to be cracked across as many schools as possible so that SFH have a prayer of kinda balancing out AH at each school. Unfortunately it's a matter of busing apartment dwellers out because, I'm pretty sure, they vastly outnumber kids in SFH. It's a little different t than busing in the 70s and 80, because Nauck is largely a neighborhood of SFH and duplexes, then and now. We could have bused white kids in but that was a political no go, then as now too. Can't really bus kids into Randolph and Barcroft and Drew and carlin that aren't already zoned there, there just aren't enough.[/quote]

There are more than 100 UMC kids in the Fairlington unit across 395.  It is already a bused unit- so not a walk zone issue.  Move it to drew making room for Columbia Forest at Abingdon.  It would make a dramatic difference.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

In addition to moving the two Henry PUs?  What does "dramatic difference" look like?  70%? 65%  What's our goal?[/quote]

The goal should be not to leave any one school too overcrowded or too high poverty, if reasonable/possible to do so, without creating crazy boundaries with long bus routes and without putting walkers onto buses. This is map doesn't satisfy any of those goals. I think of you can get the fr/l rate down closer to 70% within the Drew boundary, it has legs. [/quote]

I don't have an answer yet; but 70% is just not good enough.  That does nothing to encourage the new families being directed to Drew, especially when all of them will be coming from schools that are currently significantly lower than 70%.  That's everyone's fears come true.  SOMEthing is gonna have to give here regarding the "pretty looking maps."

Despite the Columbia Forest island that would be created, can someone with the mindset for this sort of thing help me see what the numbers would look like if Claremont was redistricted to Drew, along with the two Henry PUs that are central to many comments?  and would there still be room for some of those Fairlington kids?  [/quote]

So, I haven't done the numbers with all of Claremont zoned Drew along with the Henry PUs, but zoning all of Columbia Heights plus one additional Claremont PU put Drew down to around 56% fr/l and still under capacity. The problem actually isn't getting Drew's fr/l numbers down. That can be done pretty easily by just moving Columbia Heights. The problem is how to chop up Columbia Forest without Drew but also without continuing to overcrowd Abingdon and Barcroft and/or crushing Randolph's fr/l numbers even more (not to mention, alignment problems b/c Randolph is currently all Jefferson). [/quote]

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