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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everything currently is based on September 2024 enrollments and program capacities.

So I guess your point is if they use stale data and program capacities quickly decline or expand due to a change in Title I status some schools could already be targets for future redistricting shortly after new boundaries are adopted in 2026.

I don’t think that’s the case with Graham Road/Shrevewood/Timber Lane given the current status and proposed boundary changes affecting those schools, but perhaps it’s more of a possibility with other schools like Gunston depending on where they land. [/quote]
Yes, they might push brand new Title I schools well over capacity for 5 years only to immediately reshuffle the next cycle. The community deserves more consideration and stability.

[b]The Graham Road/Shrevewood/Timber Lane situation is slightly different. Graham Road and Timber Lane are both Title I schools. The scenarios remove all disadvantaged students from Graham Road. It will lose Title I status, its program capacity could expand, and it’ll be under enrolled.

Meanwhile, Timber Lane will have a 70-90% FARM rate with majority of their students coming from an attendance island on the other side of Rt-29. Shrevewood will be about 50% FARMs, so not Title I, and the 119 students who previously received services will lose them.[/b] [/quote]

I think you're exaggerating a bit here with respect to Graham Road and Timber Lane.

If you look at the new Graham Road boundaries, they leave some high-poverty areas at the school.  One is off Kalmia Lee Court, and the second is the large complex of garden apartments off Annandale Road (includes the James Lee Apartments).  In addition, there are FARMS kids living in single-family houses in that area.  It could still end up Title I, just not as high FARMS as Graham Road is now.  The main appeal is that Scenario 4 consolidates at Graham Road some Falls Church HS neighborhoods that had been divided among Timber Lane, Graham Road, and Pine Spring previously (even though a piece of Jefferson Village still feeds to Beech Tree ES/Glasgow MS/Justice HS).

I do think Timber Lane will end up around 70-75% FARMS, and it could lead to more of the McLean-zoned families north of Route 29 sending their kids to private schools or angling for AAP at Haycock before Longfellow.  The main goal of these families was to stay zoned to Longfellow/McLean, and very little was said about the other changes that will drive up the FARMS rate at Timber Lane.  Creating the new Kingsley Commons attendance island at Timber Lane doesn't align with Policy 8130, but it's unclear whether they'll come up with anything different at this point.

I agree Shrevewood will see an increase in its FARMS rate under Scenario 4, and not enough to push it into Title I status.  At some point, although it could be years away, Dunn Loring may open, and if/when that happens the Shrevewood neighborhoods outside the Beltway logically would move to Stenwood given how many Stenwood families stand to move to Dunn Loring.    [/quote]

Scenario 4 has Shrevewood at 102% and Timber Lane at 87%.   An alternative that puts each below 100% is moving SPA 5015 to Shrevewood/Kilmer/Marshall and leaving the higher membership counts from SPA 5013 + SPA 4913 total 119 at Timber Lane and 100% of Timber Lane to Jackson /Falls Church.  SPA 5015 was about 50% of the total of the other 2 for the Kent Gardens published SPA counts.

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/KentGardens-AreaBoundaryMaps-April2023.pdf

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Pulls too many kids out of Longfellow/McLean, pushes Timber Lane up to 90% FARMS, and still leaves Kingsley Gardens as an attendance island.  Shrevewood might like it but it’s not a good suggestion.

They might have been well served earlier to consider an option where all of Timber Lane north of 29 moved to Kilmer/Marshall, and much of Pimmit Hills moved to Longfellow/McLean, but that moment has likely passed.

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