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[quote=Anonymous]Just wanted to respond re: the high school boundaries in Arlington as a county native.

My sense is that they are probably pretty similar to what they were 20+ years ago when I was in high school and I think the reason they seem a bit odd is because at that time, a) the county population was much lower, and b) there was not such a massive concentration of housing and people along the Metro line.

Wakefield has always been the designated school for most (all?) of South Arlington (I think maybe a small pocket goes to W-L - maybe in Glencarlyn? or used to) so that leaves Yorktown and W-L to divide everything north of 50.

North North Arlington has always been less densely populated than the center of the county.  My neighborhood growing up was even redistricted so that my older sibling went to W-L and I attended Yorktown, I'm guessing in an attempt to lessen the population at W-L and boost the numbers at Yorktown, which at that time was very small (less than 1,000 students).

Also wanted to concur with whoever made the point earlier about North Arlington schools (north of Lee Hwy) being more white/less diverse - while there is less racial/ethnic diversity than central and south Arlington, there are, of course, families of color - they just tend to be earning middle and upper middle class incomes like their neighbors.  There are also, of course, middle and upper middle class white families in central arlington (just north and south of Rt 50) and further south in Arlington who are perfectly happy with their economically/racially/ethnically mixed schools, us included.[/quote]

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