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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are promoting Grosvenor because they already went through a site selection and the entire community agreed on Grosvenor. It has nothing to do with getting 100% of the seats, so stop making sh*t up! Doing another study is a waste of MCPS time and $$[/quote]

Exactly, the [b]W[/b] cluster did that site selection.  It had nothing to do with the BCC cluster.  And the WJ cluster may not all agree with this pat solution[b] when they figure out they'll be moving some percentage of Wyngate students out to the new school[/b] - perhaps the entire Alta Vista side of the neighborhood.  Because Grosvenor is not a location for a split BCC/WJ school.  It is a fine location for a WJ school.[/quote]

No one will find out who'll be attending the new school until long after the site has been selected, and a new boundary study is established for that school, typically a year and a half before its opening date.[/quote]

[b]Right now, MCPS has said there are 2 clusters projected to have 370 extra elementary students each: BCC (particularly Bethesda ES) and WJ (all schools are maxed out at 740 and over/fully enrolled the minute Lux reopens).[/b] If the opening of this new school happens in connection with the Woodward opening, all bets are off.  But if this is its own BCC/WJ thing it is pretty obvious that opening a school deeply in WJ land will take kids from WJ and push BCC kids to the outside edge school - Wyngate.  (Bradley Hills, very close to Wyngate and Bethesda is in the Whitman cluster)

Ayrlawn in a nonstarter. Nearby residents of Oakmont and Bethesda  lining Ayrlawn with their McMansions don’t want to deal with loss of their Park or more school bus traffic.  Who blames them?  They have the money to fight.[/quote]

But Bethesda ES is already scheduled to be expanded to 765 students in 2023, which will cover their overcrowding. According to the CIP, that leaves Rock Creek Forest as the only overcapacity BCC ES, since Somerset's will be covered by the boundary study with Westbrook. Within WJ, Ashburton and Farmland will still be overcapacity and Garrett Park and Luxmanor will be basically at capacity. So that's an argument for Grosvenor. I don't know how any of the proposed sites will provide relief to RCF.[/quote]

Kensington is closest to RCF.  But this argument for Grosvenor ihere s the same as WJ cluster gets all the seats called sh^t above.[/quote]
Yeah, Kensington is the perfect location for solving an actual BCC/WJ problem since it’s exactly at the border of the two clusters. However, the site is too small. I wonder if it could be a good holding school option if they make Grosvenor a regular school. One year with limited fields would be much better than K-5 with limited fields.

And, how is RCF overcrowded when they JUST GOT a new building? Can’t they move the immersion program somewhere else? My son’s former PEP program got (rightly IMO) kicked out of Ashburton when it got too crowded.[/quote]

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