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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capstone is to bolster Yorktown and reduce transfer to WL. They need more seats at WL to accommodate flow from Wakefield. [/quote]

Yes, or many more W-L neighborhoods along the Yorktown border would likely have to be redistricted to Yorktown like Cherrydale, Waycroft Woodlawn, etc. Population growth is in South Arlington and not in the B
North. So makes sense to reduce transfers from Yorktown to W-L and encourage transfers from
Wakefield into W-L[/quote]

Would neighbors accept moving to Yorktown? [/quote]

I’m in Cherrydale, and live close enough to WL to hear the marching band practice and the PA system during athletic events at the stadium.  Hell yes I’d put up a fight if my neighborhood was redistricted to Yorktown so that some kids who live 3 miles away can be bused to WL.  If Arlington gets to that point, just get rid of zoned HS and make it all lottery.[/quote]

Sorry, Woodmont, Maywood, and Cherrydale are the WL neighborhoods closest to Yorktown -- so it makes sense to move them.  It would also make Yorktown contiguous.    It just happens Yorktown and WL are not that far apart.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/HSZones_Lg.pdf[/quote]

That’s why the Cherrydale and Waverly Hills planning units north of 66 (only a two to five minute walk to W-L) were under proposed scenarios to move them to Yorktown. It may come up again when boundaries are revisited. Same with Lyon Village which is adjacent to the Yorktown district. Or those west of N Glebe Road. The boundaries just reflect how the population growth is in South Arlington. Some neighborhoods in FCPS and MCPS literally a couple blocks away from one high school are zoned to a different one due to uneven population growth.

Neighborhoods along the west end of Columbia Pike near Wakefield were briefly under consideration to move them back to Wakefield during the last boundary change, but the neighborhood outcry was so strong there among some of the county’s most vulnerable families, that the Superintendent eliminated that option. And now with Wakefield overcrowded there’s no chance those neighborhoods will be moved under any future study.

If neighborhoods very close to W-L were to be moved to Yorktown in the future, the Superintendent may allow some limited number of neighborhood transfers to W-L as currently allowed for the neighborhoods near Ashlawn ES that were rezoned to Yorktown. There are always ways to make the system work for proactive families who want a certain outcome. [/quote]

Makes more sense to add  Lyon Village and planning units west of Glebe to Yorktown then it does Cherrydale or Waverly Hills.  [b]Do the new 600 seats at W-L and the rebuild of the career center the care of the overcrowding at Wakefield?[/b]

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Fingers crossed. I don’t know the latest numbers though. [/quote]

MM Fs the numbers don’t worry. [/quote]

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