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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]There's no real difference between Nottingham and ATS[/b].  I wouldn't bother.[/quote]

I'm not sure if PP was just referring to music/art, but a real difference between the two schools is diversity.  Looking at the latest statistics I found with a quick search:  as of 9/20, ATS was 23% Asian, 17% black, 13% Hispanic, 37% white, 10% mixed (I'm doing some rounding).  Nottingham was 7% Asian, 0.5% black, 8% Hispanic, 73% white, 11% mixed.  In October 2019, ATS was 31% free lunch, while Nottingham was 4%.  [/quote]

and size - ATS has more kids in total and per class and per grade but in a smaller space, Nottingham has small everything yet bigger space, indoors and outdoors both, and bigger/better/nicer playground.[/quote]

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True, although I'd take bets that Nottingham or Tuckahoe becomes host to an option school in the next few years and enrollment goes up at whichever remains a neighborhood school accordingly.[/quote]
APS Planning does have a bias in favor of centrally located (Rt 50, Wilson Blvd) neighborhood schools becoming options schools. This was loud and clear during the expensive Rube Goldberg school changes last year (Key > ATS, ATS > McK, McK > Cardinal). [/quote][/quote]

not really sure what was “Rube Goldberg” about it.  Might have been unnecessary, but it wasn’t complicated.[/quote]
This expensive mess started with the understandable goal of needing a neighborhood school in the Clarendon-Rosslyn corridor.  That would mean moving Key immersion to another location. As luck would have it, APS was completing a new school in Westover. Easy solution would be to move Key to the new Westover school and accomplish what they need with he least disruption.  Instead Key was moved to ATS, ATS was moved to McKinley, McKinley was moved to Cardinal.  An overly complicated and indirect manner of completing a task is commonly termed "Rube Goldberg."[/quote]
People would have freaked out if an option program got a new school (rightfully so) [/quote]

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