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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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Are there any schools in MoCo that have space?

Yes but they are all further north or east in less desirable areas with lower performing scores. They probably need to move the magnets up there to rebalance things which does seem to work. Blair's magnet and possibly RM's magnet would move to one of the under-enrolled and low performing school clusters. This would alleviate the overcrowding at Blair and RM. The overcrowding situation is worst at Blair so I guess that would be the first one to go.[/quote]

[quote]Nah, they just need to rebalance things around the segregated schools.[/quote]

[quote]Many of the W's are also under capacity seems like the perfect place to start.[/quote]

Except none of the W middle or high schools are under capacity. Too many people move there in the later grades to escape their local low performing MS/HS.. You've got under enrolled ES and overenrolled HS. There are a good number people in the W schools looking at relocating to VA or who have already made the move but they get replaced with people leaving lower performing school clusters so you don't end up freeing up space there.

The only schools with room are Seneca Valley, Kennedy, Springbrook etc that are further out and lower scoring. My money is on the magnets moving first. Its easier than full scale diversity bussing.  [/quote]
If so many people are moving into the W clusters for HS from their lower performing clusters which tend to be east county, why are the east county HS still over capacity?  Or are you saying they are moving from up county?

Where is the source for your claim?  Is it just that you know a couple of people who did this, and so this must be the cause?

My money is a lot of people sending their kids to private for K to 8 then to public in HS.[/quote]

You are partly correct. Many in the western part of the county send their children to private early on, but they also send them to private later. The reason elementary schools in the western part of the county are under capacity while the high schools are over capacity is economics. You have more wealth as you get older. Since houses are expensive in that part of the county, they are more affordable to those who have accumulated more wealth—are older and thus have older children.[/quote]
I think there are several students who go to K to 8 for private and public for HS, including those who are home schooled. [/quote]

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