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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are we arguing that Poolesville had a "slipping demographic"?[/quote]

Poolesville is not a Downcounty middle school magnet. Only Eastern and Takoma are.[/quote]

Yes but why is Poolesville also in the furthest reaches of the Montgomery County universe?

Both HS magnet programs are not accessible to DC commuters.  Why is that?[/quote]

On the contrary, Blair is very accessible to DC communities. The high-school servers mostly families living inside the beltway and frankly if you really valued your child's education you'd live closer to the good schools.[/quote]

If you live in Gaithersburg, Rockville, etc. neither program is really accessible.  Public education is meant to serve, oh, I don't know - the Public?

"2019 – 2020 Official Enrollment as of September 30, 2019 was 1,205 students"  https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/interim-report/01_Introduction.pdf

"Poolesville High will also undergo a major building project. [..] The project is estimated to cost about $60 million, according to school district documents. It will increase Poolesville High’s capacity from 1,170 students to about 1,500 students."  https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/school-board-approves-preliminary-plans-for-burnt-mills-elementary-poolesville-high-projects/

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/interim-report/02b_Utilization.pdf

"the new Poolesville High School transforms its educational campus into a series of collaborative learning environments for 1,800 students."  https://www.vmdo.com/poolesville-high-school.html

The school was only slightly overcapacity by 3% in 2019, but the boundary analysis utilization report shows it wasn't the highest nail in terms of capacity issues.  Also, according to VMDO (the contractor?), Poolesville HS will have a 630 student higher capacity, not just 330.

[b]So on one side of the mouth, MCPS is saying the magnet was moved to Poolesville because there were a lot of empty seats up there, but on the other side of the mouth, the school needs a $60M upgrade to add 630 student seats?  Ooops.[/b]

If MCPS wanted to save money, they could just move the magnet program to Crown where more families could access it, and boom, could pay $60M for more critical renovations needed at other schools.[/quote]
I don't see the problem there. Both can be and is true. 
One is past, one is future.[/quote]

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