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Focusing on the PUs with no walkers, I think you take the Abingdon-Kenmore units and send them to Barcroft or Randolph, put more of eastern Barcroft to Fleet, and put the south-of-pike Fleet units to Drew. It's not great for Barcroft but my math suggests doing it that way would have both Barcroft and Drew in the 60s for fr/l rate, vs. in the 40s for Barcroft and over 80 for Drew under the current proposal.[/quote]

I don't think that works.   I only see 1 Eastern Barcroft planning unit that is not in the walkzone (37050)  It has about 50 kids- 18 of which are FARMS.  
So under that theory Barcroft could pick up about 1/3 of Columbia Heights.  In terms of putting Columbia Heights at Randolph- randolph currently only has 2 non walkking PU's.  38050 and 38100.  Its a total of about 33 kids- of which 31 are FARMS? (I think there is a DATA problem with 38050 b/c it reflects a higher number of FARMS students than total students).   Either way if you figure out a way to move out those two units from Randoph- which would probably mean sending them to Drew, you still don't have any seats for Columbia Heights even split between Randolph and Barcroft.   
Drew is getting Columbia Heights b/c of the walkzone issue.   You are going to have to move at least one PU that is in a walkzone in order to send Columbia Heights anywhere other than Drew.  [/quote]

Are you guys confusing Columbia Heights and Columbia Forest? Unless I’m reading the proposed map incorrectly, Columbia Heights is staying Henry/Fleet and not going to Drew.[/quote]

The "Columbia" with homes in the $800-900k range gets its way, and goes to Fleet. The "other Columbia" with much lower-income students gets bused two miles away - even though there are THREE other elementary schools closer to their homes. And they say there's no gerrymandering...  :roll:  What APS is doing here is just shameful[/quote].

What 3 schools? [/quote]

Since I don't see that anyone answered your question:  Carlin Springs, Barcroft, and Randolph.[/quote]

Drew is 1.3 miles away, Barcroft is 1.2 and CS is 1.8 
And Randolph can’t handle buses so unless someone can figure that part out it’s a non issue. 
I get that the boundaries are hard and nobody wants to go to Drew but it’s not like people are being busses 7 miles away [/quote]

Drew is actually 2.3 miles from the corner of Columbia pike and Frederick across from Columbia Mill.

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Abingdon, Randolph, and Barcroft are all a full mile closer to the Columbia Forest island in the staff map.[/quote]

The south of the pike Henry zones are 1.1 miles from Drew, and adjacent to its current zone. Columbia Forest is a mile farther away and is an island. Not even debatable. Just use google. It's just plain, naked favoritism. [/quote]

Not really Abingdon still has the issue of being super crowded so they have to split it up somehow. Remember that’s why this is all happening to begin with.

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You keep saying that but it doesn't make it true. Abingdon just got an addition. The purpose of the boundary process is largely to fill Drew. Pretty sure this is just a Henry parent diversion tactic. Abingdon was at 90 percent capacity in 2016. It has 725 seats. Last fall it had 668.[/quote]
It had 698 as of the last PTA meeting so it’s getting close[/quote]

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