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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The key transfer rate is for a completely different reason. People buy into Abington's zone so they get guaranteed admission to Claremont. Campbell is considered almost a neighborhood school for the neighborhood and is hardly even a choice school.

I live in alcova and used to live in barcroft. The issue isn't the year round school. The issue is the quality of education at barcroft. Before the good principle left, the school had a chance, but not now.

The the popularity of Henry isn't just the parents' support. It is the gentrification of the neighborhoods and resulting lower number of farms kids. The school is about to, if it has not already, lost its title I standing. THAT, is why the school has turned around. barcroft is going in the opposite direction.[/quote]

The thing about the calendar is that most middle class families don't want it. In other districts where year-round schools are "choices," higher SES families apply and get used to the alternate calendar because the school is special/lottery/well-regarded/has high test scores. But maintaining a calendar that's less desirable,  in a school that has a bad rep, deserved or not, is just stupid. If it weren't for the calendar, I think the school would have a shot at turning around. Is it ever going to have the demographics of Henry? No, probably not because of where housing has been built. But it might become more balanced, more like 50-50, where it was when we moved here, if APS can get a great principal in there who makes it their job to get neighborhood support. Right now Barcroft, demographically, has many higher SES families w/school-aged kids. Their money and time is going to other schools. If more of it were redirected towards  Barcroft, it would be better for all the students who attend. But expecting parents to do this, when it also means sacrificing the convenience of having all their kids on the same school calendar, well, it's not going to happen. [/quote]

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