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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two points:

1. Sending Randolph to Barcroft will make Barcroft even poorer than it already is. Same for sending them to Drew. They need to send Randolph students to the new Henry if there's any hope of demographic change in Drew and Barcroft schools. I agree re: IB elementary by the way.

2. I also think they may be in trouble with Williamsburg if they make it immersion. That school is ALREADY the most overcrowded. If they are only going to peel off Taylor to be part of Stratford zone once Stratford opens, then Williamsburg will still have ALL the kids from the other elementary schools that go there currently in its zone PLUS all the current immersion kids from Claremont. Claremont is about the same size as Taylor. So, under this plan Williamsburg will get no enrollment relief from the new Stratford school. Absurd.  [/quote]

Sending Randolph to Henry would just tank Henry. Henry is already at almost 50 % free lunch. There is no answer to the south Arlington demographic problem, other than demolition of some of the old garden Apts. Not gonna happen. [/quote]

Henry isn't even Title 1 any more. The fr/l percentage is the lowest it's ever been, at like 35%, which is about half of other neighboring schools. I don't think they could send ALL Randolph kids to any one school. And it's not clear whether there'd be any neighborhood or VPI preference at any of the option schools, including IB. That said, I don't think many families far away from Randolph are going to enroll, at least not in the first few years. But maybe some of the families who live within the current boundary and who would have transferred out won't. That could be the beginning of some demographic change. [/quote]

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