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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. That used to be the theory—only neighborhood schools had to deal with major overcapacity while option schools never exceeded classroom capacity.  This changed a few years ago when parents at massively overcrowded neighborhood schools (130%+) said that option schools should bear some of that burden.  ATS isn’t allowed to have 3 classes per grade while Ashlawn has 7 with trailers.  That seems right.  Except no one applied that logic to HB. They continued to have 75 kids / grade even when Swanson ballooned close to 500 and put an entire grade in trailers.  I’d love to see some pressure on HB to contribute to the coming HS overcrowding.  [/quote]

That’s correct to a point. Option schools don’t get parents enrolling the day before school or 5 enrolling the week of Halloween and more through out the year. My neighborhood school does. The option schools have the ideal aps class size because it makes sense. Until a few years ago ATS was no more diverse than Ashlawn or Glebe are today. APS used increasing the number of VPI pre-K students to help with this and it has worked. But due to sibling preference it would likely be way to hard to increase diversity with the universe of just a few years ago. The VPI pre-K has gotten around this. [/quote]

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