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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of things to disagree about.  Basic math is not one of them.  According to the most recent projections Oakridge will be 133 students over capacity next year, not 200.  Fleet is going to open with 752 new neighborhood seats.  It doesn't matter how you play the shell game with neighborhood and option seats at Drew and Henry.  Montessori is moving out of Drew to Henry, but every Montessori student moved to Henry opens up a neighborhood seat at Drew.  The indisputable fact is that there will be 752 new permanent neighborhood seats opened in 2019 between route 50 and 395.  Montessori is moving to Henry which will be expanded to 500 seats after the building refresh next summer, and the program will be grown.  There isn't enough overage in the SE quadrant now to fill all those seats.  There is an undeniable lack of neighborhood seats in Rosslyn.  How will they be filled?  That doesn't require a rocket scientist to figure out.[/quote]

You are overlooking the fact that Henry had something like 560 students this past year and was at almost 150% capacity. Drew is going to gain far fewer neighborhood seats as a result of the move than we are actually losing at Henry. The Montessori program will be expanded over time, but not meaningfully in the years right after Fleet opens (which is what APS will be planning for in this process, anything more than five years into the future is largely irrelevant becaus3 the SB will have to review the boundaries again within five years anyway). That right there is going to eat up a couple hundred of the 752 “new” seats.[/quote]

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