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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Years ago, a SB member said Drew needed to have Montessori pulled out to attract more families to the school.  He said a lot of highly invested parents transferred out and it made it hard for Drew to form a community.  His thought was that if the school was all neighborhood, more invested parents would stay and the school would see academic improvements.  It looks like we are about to put that theory to the test.[/quote]

A lot will depend on the Drew farms rate when the boundaries are redrawn. Parents are going to look at that number very, very closely. And probably not much else. APS really need to do their very best to keep it at about 50%, which is the average for south Arlington as a whole.You can tell from other elementaries that once the farms rate goes much above 50%, the middle and upper middle class families take that as their cue to leave and then you end up with a carlin springs, Barcroft, or Randolph.[/quote]

[b]50% is too high.  They can do much better than that.  [/b]Doesn't mean they will; but they can.  If you really want people excited about Drew, you need to stay well below 40%.  People aren't going to want to send their kids to another Title I school, especially one with the academic performance history of Drew.[/quote]

They really can't, not without some very crazy boundaries and a lot of buses. I think with that excellent principal and an fr/l rate around 50%, which seems probable given the likely attendance zone, there is no reason the school can't be a success. [/quote]

PP here, I suggested the 50%. I live in Nauck. I'm not sure it's possible to even get to 50%, I just think it's a number that people have in their heads. I am glad of the principal; I hope her presence brings along the portion of Nauck north and east of glebe road. It's higher ses than my area and my guess is that most of those kids currently attend Hoffman Boston (kids in Nauck can choose hb or drew graded).[/quote]

I think it unreasonable to expect 50% or less. 
What about Randolph and Barcroft? They’ve been suffering for years. [/quote]

There aren't any planning units that go to either Drew or Randolph, or Drew and Barcroft. The Drew walk zone and the Randolph walk zone are adjacent and separated by a major road (Walter Reed) that elementary children can't cross.[/quote]

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