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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving Wayside out of Churchill helps with utilization. How else will they get Churchill below 100%?[/quote]

It’s a BS utilization at Churchill. They’ve reduced capacity by 100 seats from when it first opened. What happened did the school shrink? Churchill has just had a period of a few years with higher enrollment which was consistently in lower figures and never had a portable until a year or two I believe. Kids there have stated it’s not crowded aside from the portable there’s no evidence to that.[/quote]

Churchill parent here.  There's no problem with Churchill being overcapacity.  Yes, there are a couple of portables and I'm sure those teachers aren't excited about them.  But I've never felt Churchill had too many kids generally.  It's not hurting education or the social environment.  And there's not much new construction in this area, so I wouldn't expect the problem to become worse in the next decade.

I have always wondered, though, why there are kids sooo far west that come to Churchill.  Those are largely Wayside kids, and some Potomac kids.  So yes, to drive from Wayside ES to Wootton HS, it may be about the same distance as going to from Wayside ES to Churchill HS.  But a huge part of that geography is far closer to Wootton than to Churchill.  Same with the Northern part of the Potomac ES boundaries.  The culprit is that they're not looking at ES boundaries.   I'd be interested in knowing the *average* student's bus time to both high schools-- there is certainly some house that is closer to Churchill and some house that is closer to Wootton.  In sum, I think, capacity-wise, it would be fine for Wayside to continue to go to Churchill.  But I think the quality of life for the average Wayside kid might improve by going to the closer school.[/quote]

Wayside going to Wootton should be the least controversial decision in entire boundary change. Wayside going to Wootton makes perfect sense. Folks who are arguing about leave this school or that school are missing the point. Boundaries will change when we have 2-3 near HS a same time. We can't leave schools.

No boundary will cover all bases, but positive outweighs negative in moving Wayside to Woottoon.[/quote]

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