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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP in case you don’t know Northwood High School soon have a new building, too[/quote]

And when Northwood's new building opens (planned for fall 2025) [b]it is likely some areas currently zoned to Blair will be rezoned to Northwood to relieve some of Blair's overcrowding[/b].[/quote]
Yeah but not including Takoma Park.[/quote]

ESS is two blocks from the Blair/Northwood boundary line. It could very easily be rezoned.[/quote]

I thought MCPS didn’t split towns between schools. [/quote]

They could rezone ESS but not TPMS.[/quote]

I know many middle schools are split, but ESS feeds into TPMS.[/quote]

Yes, I know. But the middle school and the high school boundaries are decided separately. They could, as an example, rezone ESS to Northwood but keep its middle school assignment as is.[/quote]

They could, but it seems pretty unlikely, as that move would fail on all four of the MCPS stated metrics. school utilization, school diversity, student proximity to school, and student assignment stability

On school utilization, moving ESS would not particularly move the needle for Northwood. With only 50-60 graduates per year, moving ESS to Northwood would only net about 240 new students for Northwood.

On diversity, moving ESS to Northwood would make Northwood less diverse by adding Black and brown students to a school that is already majority minority.

On proximity, Blair is more than a mile closer even for the kids closest to the Northwood boundary.

Finally, on school assignment stability, ESS went through a boundary revision relatively recently, the school zone includes parts of Takoma Park, and the community is tightly integrated into the broader Takoma Park community through proximity and the porous nature of the boundary between Takoma Park and Silver Spring.

On every metric, it is suboptimal, which makes me think this is not the direction in which MCPS is going to head. I think it is more likely that the Northwood boundary itself shifts. It's pretty nonsensical, and a legacy of the lack of a comprehensive boundary revision to date. I would not be surprised to see the portions of Northwood cluster closest to DTSS redistricted to Einstein or even BCC. [/quote]

Look, it's a perfectly reasonable plan for them to consider, and I would be surprised if it is not one of the options in the study. Who knows what they will ultimately choose. The point is they need to rezone some 600 kids out of Blair. So, some Blair feeders are going to have to move. Northwood is the only adjacent school that will have a significant number of empty seats. And there are people at ESS who already live right across the street from people zoned for Northwood.[/quote]

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