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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given the need for ES seats why is APS waiting until 2029 to build another new school (after Reed)?  Is it only money?

And, when did they SB suddenly agree that the long-term demographic trend is toward more students?  Wasn't the long delay in building schools because they said it would level off?[/quote]

The new AFSAP (hot off the press) is coming in strong for more middle and elementary seats sooner than that: https://www.apsva.us/engage/afsapreport/

It looks like Montessori seats are included in all the long term projections, but they don't have a building after the career center gets going, right? So those need to be rebuilt too?[/quote]

No current plan is to add all those Career Center seats and keep Montessori on the site as well. So it will be like 2000 HS students plus a full ES on that small lot. They are undergrounding parking and adding a real field at least for those HS kids. They may eventually move it and add even more HS students to the site, but that's 10 years or so down the road. Maybe.

(Note: This is the "plan." Everything always changes so who knows, but that's what they are saying now.)[/quote]

If you look at page 5 of the AFSAP there is a recommendation to defer the field and parking in favor of spending money on elementary or middle school seats.[/quote]

This is so stupid. Where are the kids who are about to head to HS supposed to go? They need all those seats at the CC (it’s 1,400 seats BTW). It’s not unreasonable for them to have at least one field for like ultimate frisbee and underground parking at least for staff and the disabled. This isn’t on Metro or any fixed rail, and the bus system isn’t good enough to handle the current load let alone all the additional kids and staff because there isn’t any other option).  I’ll have to re-check the WG info, but I think the idea was the field could go on the current CC parking lot, without affecting Montessori. They might have to share the underground parking. It’s not a stadium, and it never will be, which is why they are making it an option (or multiple options). We can’t afford a real HS and can’t afford to move Montessori again, too.

I also think the ES situation isn’t as dire as they paint it out to be. It’s dire in only specific areas, but if they’d move option programs and adjust boundaries to actually fill the schools (let’s check how “full” Drew and Abingdon are after they release the numbers), we don’t need to panic just yet.

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