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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ricardy Anderson must be having a meltdown right now.

Ricardy has asked for a boundary study at Glasgow MS for years.  It's not seriously overcrowded based on program capacity, but it's big and chaotic, and parents have been asking to reduce the number of students there for years.  Ricardy keeps requesting a boundary study, and her colleagues keep denying her requests and saying it will be taken care of as part of the comprehensive boundary review.

Thru's proposals would not move anyone out of Glasgow, and 2 of the 3 scenarios would add another 14 kids to the school, pushing it up to 103%.  Nearby Holmes and Poe would still have extra capacity under Thru's scenarios, but moving kids out of Glasgow to those schools likely would create the type of split feeder to high schools that Thru has prioritized eliminating.

She can't be happy. [/quote]
I started poking around the Mason District recommendations and they’re a mess! There’s a recommendation to move an SPA from Weyanoke across I-395 to Bren Mark Park. A bus would have to meander through the City of Alexandria to get these kids to school.

This has to be a mistake, because that same SPA is later sent to Edison HS, but it’s baked into all of their capacity projections and would likely domino their elementary school tweaks. Weyanoke ES and Columbia ES are the key to their Parklawn solution, and it only worked because they magically got rid of 100 kids through a misplaced SPA. [/quote]

I was looking at the Mason Diestrict recommendations as well and saw all these proposed ES adjustments.  Thru is proposing some big changes at some of those schools.  For example, I was looking at Sleepy Hollow ES and thought at first that they were going to make it the most affluent feeder to Justice HS by reassigning a bunch of garden apartments near Seven Corners to Bailey's ES and Glen Forest ES and moving more of Lake Barcroft to Sleepy Hollow.  But the small area north of Courtland Park that would move from Bailey's to Sleepy Hollow is part of Culmore, and would account for roughly 70% of Sleepy Hollow's adjusted enrollment under all three of Thru's proposals.  When you have access to the SPA data, you can see how some large areas of single-family houses have relatively few students, whereas some garden apartment complexes can have hundreds of kids, and how some "tweaks" can result in major changes to a school's enrollment and demographics.  [/quote]
The shifts in demographics was a huge point of contention during the recent elementary school realignment. Imagine going through all that just to have another round of sweeping changes blindly pushed through. [/quote]

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