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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are about 460 AAP students at Kilmer. So after all that, 50 AAP students would be left at Kilmer? Or eventually Kilmer would have an AAP center?[/quote]

I'd read it as follows:

Kilmer had an AAP center with 454 AAP students last year, of whom 210 had Kilmer as their base school.  The rest are primarily from the Cooper district.

If nothing changes, FCPS projects Kilmer will be at 1733 kids in 4-5 years, 581 students over capacity.  One option to reduce the enrollment at Kilmer is to move the Cooper AAP now at Kilmer back to Cooper, which FCPS estimates would reduce Kilmer's enrollment by 227 students.  Another option is to move AAP students from Kilmer to a new AAP center at Thoreau, reducing the Kilmer enrollment by roughly 250 students.

Neither option could be adopted, just one option could be adopted, or both options could be adopted.  Facilities is essentially saying that, unless both options are adopted, it currently projects that Kilmer will be quite overcrowded.  It is also saying that, because Thoreau is scheduled to be renovated before Cooper, it would be easier to move Kilmer AAP students to Thoreau (in 2017-18) before moving  AAP students back to Cooper (in 2019-21).

I think you are right that, if FCPS adopted both options, Kilmer would no longer have AAP.  But the sequencing would be strange - is FCPS going to send AAP kids who are in-boundary for Kilmer over to Thoreau, but allow Cooper AAP kids to stay at Kilmer until Cooper has been renovated?

The other take-away is that, if the projections are off, new options may emerge or these options will be discarded.  But Facilities at least wants to put the options on the table so that the School Board and the public understand that there probably will need to be changes. [/quote]

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