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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The County ties itself into knots with its catering to rich n Arlington folks, its empty talk  about egalitarianism, and it’s odd fetishization of option schools.  Just effing carve out neighborhood zones, keep one big immersion option and call it a day.[/quote]

Yes. Nobody has considered yet keeping only one Spanish immersion school; Claremont.
Making Key and ASFS neighborhood.
My prediction would be that the neighborhoods would happily enroll in their neighborhoods! 
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Between Claremont and Key there were 461 applications for 288 Kindergarten spots.  That means that with our current immersion schools- there is a waitlist of nearly 200 for a kindergarten spot in immersion.  Why on earth would you propose taking it down to one school.[/quote]

Two questions that don’t have answers: how many are pure proximity applications and how many are families applying to multiple options hoping to get in at least one?[/quote]

They will hopefully have more data on this soon since the ALL lotteries are centralized and electronic for the first time.  Also, new this year, if you apply for multiple lotteries and your name gets pulled for one, you are dropped out of the running for the others and off any future waitlists.  I think this will also make it more clear the number of families looking to avoid a neighborhood school with any available program vs. families that truly believe in the model that they are applying.  In theory anyway![/quote]

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