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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And these are the numbers per school:

[url]https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_AppendixE.pdf[/url][/quote]

This is really eye opening. Walter Johnson is almost 700 kids OVER capacity?!? But then schools like Shady Grove MS are almost 400 UNDER?!?[/quote]

Why do they insist on busing so many kids all the way from Kensington there when they could attend a school closer to home or at least a less crowded one like Kennedy?[/quote]
The DCC is also overcrowded. [/quote]

Places like BCC and Kennedy are below capacity and could easily help offload nearby schools.[/quote]

Not really, when you look at the 2028–2029 School Year columns. Kennedy is projected to be over capacity by then, and BCC will be at capacity.[/quote]

But they are less crowded than any other nearby school and should be used to reduce the burden on other areas. [/quote]
One of the four criteria for boundaries is stability. Moving some kids just to move them again in a few years isn't their policy.[/quote]
This applies to the kids, not the neighborhoods. If a students starts 9th grade in one school and is shifted in 10th grade to another, they won't be shifted again in 11th (and 12th is always offered to be able to stay.) So, in theory, HS boundaries could be tweaked every 4 years. Similar idea at the ES level, except every 6 years.

I think MCPS has gone too long with the ideas that boundaries are fixed. Every time there is new housing, there are new kids to enroll. 20 years later, most kids in that neighborhood have aged out. Watch Clarksburg area student population crash in 20 years like Derwood (Magruder HS) as parents decide to age in place rather than sell to younger families. MCPS would be better off with a process similar to MSMC or DCC where students choose between 2 or 3 closest schools upon entering (K/1, 6, 9) and are placed to help balanced enrollment, with proximity and sibling link being an important factor. That would allow a gradual shift over time by neighborhood from one school to another as the number of students in the area change.[/quote]

Some of the gerrymandered boundires especially those of the segregated schools could use an update. Many of them are horribly inefficient and run up transportation costs to avoid diversity since they were set half a century ago.[/quote]
HoCo redraws boundaries every couple of years. MCPS should do something similar.[/quote]

You guys forget that how many parents were threatening to sue if their house prices decline whenever there's a threat of boundary study. It's insane. Dcps redoes school boundaries every ten years I think, it's built into the regulations [/quote]

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