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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]

That little square moving to sleepy hollow is one of the silliest things I've seen. The apartments to the right, left, behind, and in front of all will go to Bailey's (the school across the street), but that one block of apartments will go 2 miles away?

I don't love anything about the proposals in the area. Bailey's Upper is such an anomaly that trying to pigeonhole it into the "fixes" is creating some weird(er) choices.
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Are they trying to see if they can close Bailey’s Upper? I’m trying to make sense of the changes. [/quote]

No, they are trying to make sure Bailey’s Upper lies within its attendance area and still has the same attendance area as Bailey’s.  The “solution” does shrink the enrollment at Bailey’s Upper, though.

No one appears to have asked whether, if they are revising boundaries, they should just be separate K-5 schools now.  They create upper schools when a school is overcrowded and they don't want to change boundaries.

Bailey’s is in Culmore and should serve as much of it as possible for as many grades as possible. [/quote]

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