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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How long have they known this cluster was happening? I have a baby now. I wasn't paying attention before having a kid. I just assumed Arlington had its act together. Can someone give me some back story here.
Fwiw. I live in one of the few ( currently) not crowded pyramids.[/quote]

To be brief, the elementary schools have gotten increasingly crowded the past 5-7 years. Hence the building of Discovery and the new elementary at TJ, the additions at Ashkawn, McKinley and I think Abingdon is next. The overcrowding in turn moved to the middle schools so that now Swanson and Williamsburg are bursting out, with entire grades in trailers this coming school year.  So then there was all the drama about whether to build a new middle school or move HB to Roslyn to the old Wilson site and return HB's building to its original purpose as a neighborhood middle school. HB is moving and its old building will revert to its old middle school status in 2019, supposedly. Guess where those kids go to school next - yep, high school. Washington-Lee is going to be the most overcrowded, followed by Wakefield then Yorktown.   For example, last year's graduating class from WL was around 420 students and this year's freshman class is close to 700 and the worst of the overcrowding has yet to hit. Meanwhile, the county keeps increasing density and more families are living in apartments/condos. APS has been slow to deal with all of this, partly because their projections for growth have been off, partly because they kept hoping this student growth was just a bubble and  other reasons. Then add in how the county handles its debt capacity and now the high school situation is truly going to be dire for the foreseeable future. Which is absolutely nuts considering how new the buildings are.

But really, look at other threads and More Seats on the APS website. You'll find plenty.[/quote]

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