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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]550 students over at WJ sounds dangerously overcrowded, and 2026 is still quite a few years away. They should open Woodward immediately after the construction is finished  & find alternative plans for housing Northwood students. It will only get worse. The only other option is redistricting some of the incoming 9th graders next year to a different high school, but it appears that no other HS around WJ has the room. [/quote]

So an east county school that badly needs a renovation will get the short straw again???  Developers of all housing including condos and apartments need to provide adequate funding for school construction, the old false paradigm that people with kids don't live in multi housing units is very detrimental. [b]All this could have been predicted and alarm bells were raised many years ago about population trends.[/b] [/quote]

Don't worry, it is not going to happen.  Northwood will go in for 2 years (with no fields, no aux gym, etc), and then some from WJ and some from DCC will go in 2026.

This is partly due to the incompetence of the long range planning staff and partly due to lack of funding (which means other peiorities) priorities.

Keep in mind, 3 HSs opening pretty much together is unheard of (Northwood, Woodward and Crown).

That said, as per the bold above, alarm bells were raised by parents many years back, and MCPS staff (then Capital Planning now Long Range Plannin), stalled, delayed, and denied.  Their incompetence is truly astounding.   [/quote]

So, are you saying that the 2026-2027 school year is the first possible year that students from WJ will started attending school in the new building in the old Woodward space? When will families within the cluster know whether their kids will either be eligible to attend there or will be "forced" to do so?

And thank you to the cluster parents who have tracked this topic and advocated for our cluster's needs for so many years.[/quote]

When it opens its going to be used by Northwood for their renovation then opened as a school.  No one knows who will transfer there.  One can assume a large number from WJ.[/quote]

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