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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]McK is opening the addition and will still end up over capacity.  Ashlawn is still going to be over capacity.  Glebe will still be over capacity.  I'm sure Tuckahoe will, too.  All of those would feed into or see relief from a Westover school.  Those families moved to Nottingham would welcome being rejoined with their neighbors at Reed.

Putting a 725 seat school at Reed doesn't make sense, but it could be converted to something the size of Nottingham for not a lot of money and the extra could go to additions where needed.

The Westover residents have been asking for a neighborhood school for years, but some other area gets in with the SB first.  [/quote]

How do you draw the boundaries though when the walkable zones for Reed and McKinley would seem to overlap and the worst overcrowding is at Ashlawn? The Ashlawn boundaries are already some of the strangest in the county. Have you looked at the ES boundary map? And how does this help the NE, where the overcrowding is worst than in the NW? Look, I know Westover wants a neighborhood school now, but where was everyone when the McK addition was on the table? If the Westover residents want this to happen, they need to back up the proposal with more granular numbers. APS (and the rest of the county) is not going to give Westover a little neighborhood school based on vague speculation that Tuckahoe might also be over capacity some day, when APS has hard numbers showing that the NE is overcrowded now. This neighborhood vs. neighborhood BS will get you nowhere. You have to come up with a solution that will help the entirety of North Arlington if you want to be taken seriously.  [/quote]

The neighborhoods around Reed are overcrowded now.  Even with the addition, Tuckahoe, McKinley and Glebe are over 100%. Those are real numbers.  Any number that is for 2025 is speculatory and APS is notoriously bad at predicting even a few years out.[/quote]

You seem to be saying APS should spend millions to give you a neighborhood school to relieve truly minimal overcrowding (less than 200 kids total I think) w[b]hen there is a truly severe overcrowding problem in Ballston/Rosslyn that that does nothing to address, and a truly crushing high school overenrollment problem looming that will break the bank. [/b]Do you not see ANY problem with what you are suggesting?[/quote]

+1  We're at Long Branch and really frustrated that none of the options I see getting discussed reference Long Branch at all.  It is in a serious capacity problem and as the, by far, smallest site in the district there is NO place to even put more than the 2 trailers we already heave.  Yes, I know compared to the great numbers of trailers at other schools that does't seem like much but at least those schools have land to handle trailers.  I haven't heard anything about what solutions are actually possible just to handle next year's over-capacity.[/quote]

Well, during the SAWG process, it was mentioned more than once, by staff, that building the new south Arlington school at TJ could allow for overflow from Long Branch. I don't think it would have been mentioned if they weren't already considering doing that. So, don't worry, even the new south Arlington school is going to help north Arlington. [/quote]

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