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Where are the FRL rates? Is APS holding them back- they should’ve been put by now.

APS will continue to make bad decisions that hurt SA and cave to the loudest NA parents. Stay tuned for ATS to McKinnley, Key and ASFS neighborhood, Campbell basically dismantled despite scoring as higher if not higher than many NA schools, immersion to move but set to be underenrolled on the Spanish speaking side. Drew to be high poverty and over 1/2 empty. Carlin Springs and Campbell neighbored to be the same. Fairlington over capacity and barely title 1.

Gilliam Place which opens today will fill Fleet. Ashlawn and Barrett will just have to fight it out.

What do you want?! When option school locations in S Arlington are proposed they are taking away neighborhood seats. When option school locations are proposed in N Arlington they are inaccessible to S Arlington families. Honestly, I think Key to ATS and ATS to Drew should be on the table, but that's not politically viable.[/quote]

DP but I always thought that the people who were posting about [b]making Options Seats more accessible for South Arlington were bleeding hearts from NA who were talking about making it easier for poorer families to apply and go there. Not about making Option Schools more accessible for the MC/UMC SA families who actually do go there. [/b]

I think most of the MC/UMC families in SA using options to escape their neighborhood schools are not going to fight too much or too loudly about driving to McKinley vs. ATS even if it is a little longer. It still beats the alternative. If it were me and I had to choose between Barcroft or driving my kid to Jamestown it would not be a difficult choice (let alone the proposals currently on the table).

But it really depends on the situation in your neighborhood school. I was thinking of applying to Key for the immersion program but I probably won't if they move to Carlin Springs. Its too far away in the wrong direction and my neighborhood school is not so problematic that I feel its worth the extra travel.  If my neighborhood school was one of the low performing ones I would still apply.[/quote]

This is simply not a factual statement. Most ATS kids are from North Arlington, despite it being a countywide lottery. The highest number of transfers are from Ashlawn and McKinley.

Up until two years ago, every other option school had an element of neighborhood preference. Since three of them were in South Arlington, it makes sense that they’d have more SA residents, including MC. In particular, Claremont’s preference was to areas that don’t include much low income housing, so that’s why the school really doesn’t represent the economic diversity of other SA schools. Under the countywide lottery, Campbell has a lower percentage of low income students than it did when it was only open to SA.

In general, the historic data implies that option schools, even the countywide ones with no geographic preferences, draw from their immediate neighborhoods more than the farthest away neighborhoods. This should be a consideration, if we care about making sure that lower income families, particularly those with limited means of transportation, continue to have access to option schools. And I don’t know that two immersion schools to choose between in a two miles radius is really offering them choices.

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