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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be a bit crazy to put another comprehensive HS north of 50 b/c that will make for crazy boundaries again. I really hope they consider the Kenmore site b/c it's centrally located and can help relieve crowding in the middle of the county.  Also, it can end up pulling from N & S, like WL does right now.

As far as the ES sites, I can see them moving ATS to Reed, but it wouldn't make sense to displace kids from the schools listed above unless the SB tossed out ALL ES boundaries and started from scratch. They aren't going to do that.  [/quote]

That Kenmore site is hugely inconvenient. It may be in the middle, but it's at the western edge of the county. OTOH Wakefield is even more inconvenient, and people deal with that.[/quote]

However, the Kenmore site is the biggest (32 acres), is flat, and has fewer issues than just about any other property on the table. Sure, it'd be great to have it further east, but we have to work with what we have. Even if Kenmore isn't selected this time around for a new school, it's going to happen there eventually. It's just too good to turn down. [/quote]

PP here, and I'm also the one who posted about using the elementary sites. I'm coming around to the idea of Kenmore as the best option. It also seems sensible from a framing perspective. Plan to make it an "option" high school now, but preserve flexibility to move the middle school to the VHC parcel if in fact a comprehensive high school is needed. [/quote]

Just trying to wrap my head around the logistics. So, we build a 1300 seat "choice" school say, over the parking lot and underground the parking now, leaving the MS intact? Then, in a future CIP, we convert the 1300 seat HS to a comprehensive one, possibly by connecting the new building to the old MS, and build a new MS on the VHC site? Am I on the right track? I like this. I wonder what the boundary will look like, though, given the location so far to the west. It would have to go pretty far north and east.

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I guess so? I'm the PP but do not appear to be the most knowledgeable on this thread, so I'm sure others weigh in. As to boundaries, Kenmore is attractive because it could pull students from north and south, all along the western part of the county as you say. Seems like that could be a nice demographic balance. I'm not sure what it would do to Wakefield though. Presumably it would take SW located students from Wakefield and Wakefield would then have the SE students and potentially also gain some students to the north of 50 to round out its numbers. So it seems like it could be good for the demographics of both schools, though I don't have much of an idea how it would actually shake out with real numbers. I also shudder to think of the boundary fights to send students currently zoned for Yorktown to a new school south of 50. [/quote]

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