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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What did I miss?

I have not been able to follow APS for just the last 24 hours.

The thread was on page 4 with their 'server breakdown' I believe.

It's a complete mess I assume?

Does anyone have a link to the pertinent information/data/summaries? 
Which page on this thread has links?

Thanks!
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It's all on the APS webite. Engage With Us -&gt; Current initiatives -&gt; Elementary planning.

The upshot is:

Campbell is staying where it is.

Claremont immersion is moving to Carlin Springs; Claremont will become neighborhood.

Key is become a neighborhood school.

For the rest, there are two options being reviewed:

1) The immersion program currently at Key moves to the ATS site and the ATS program will move to Nottingham; or
2) ATS will stay where it is and the immersion program at Key will move to Barcroft. If this happens, they will likely create a single immersion lottery for all of the county, and then will assign students who accept seats in the program to each school based on what makes for the most efficient busing routes.[/quote]

NP here.  Full disclosure NO skin in this as none of our kids will be going to any of the schools listed above, but curious, what happens to Nottingham if immersion is moved from Key to Barcroft.  Won't there be tons of over crowding in the south if barcroft kids get displced?  Can they guarantee enough native English speaking kids if both immersion moves to the south?[/quote]

If immersion moves to Barcroft and ATS stays put, my guess is that either they will push South Arlington boundaries east until Long Branch ends up a predominantly South Arlington school or (and I think this may be more likely given the boundary challenges this would create) they would completely redo the Ashlawn boundaries to create a compact zone that ends south of 50. Maybe do the same with Barrett. This would push people currently at those schools north into McKinley and Reed, and then families displaced from there would go to Tuckahoe and Nottingham. From my rough estimates, I think this could potentially create the most compact boundaries of anything on the table yet.[/quote]

PP again. I don't think there will be an issue with attracting non-native Spanish speakers to immersion programs at Barcroft and Carlin Springs. If you look at Claremont, almost 75% of its applications this spring were non-Spanish speakers. Further, despite how far south it is, it draws almost 10% of its student population from schools north of Lee Highway. And many parents in the upper part of NW have lamented for years that they'd love to send their kids to an immersion school, but Claremont was simply too far for them to do logistically. If they move it to Carlin Springs and it's then just across 50, I think you'd see a significant boost in applications from North Arlington. And I don't see why moving the other program to Barcroft would create a problem given the number of people in last year's transfer report sending their kids to Key from the western side of the county, I don't see why people at the eastern edge would be less likely that people in every other part of the county to tolerate some travel for immersion.[/quote]

I highly, highly, highly doubt you will see a boost in applications from nw Arlibgton.  [/quote]

Based on what? The transfer data strongly suggests that interest in an option school correlates with proximity to the school. But even if you're right, it doesn't matter because this year's lottery applications suggest there wouldn't be a problem filling the seats anyway.[/quote]

Based on a hunch that saying that one would have chosen immersion (with the political cred that attaches to that statement) is very different from actually doing it.[/quote]

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