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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why everyone is saying move ATS south, and not Key. 
The Spanish speakers are in South Arlington. 
Barcroft elementary should be converted to immersion. [/quote]

Not all are. Buckingham is in North Arlington, and it's one of the densest Latino populations in Arlington. If Key moves S, it can't be moved too close to Claremont or too far W because the Immersion division is E/W rather than N/S, again, to balance English/Spanish speakers and to encourage economic diversity. It might make sense to move Key to Barett. They'd have hundreds of Spanish speaking kids in the walk zone at that location. [/quote]

Barrett has a pretty good walk zone.  But ATS is less than a mile from Barrett, and doesn't have a good walk zone.  Moving Key to the ATS location makes a lot of sense, and would make immersion easily accessible for the large spanish dominant population clustered in the area.

In terms of the E/W N/S divide- APS is very quietly redrawing this boundary.   It can't be to close to Claremont, true- but it could move west.[/quote]

How could they possibly fit the Key students at ATS?  ATS is too small.

And I’m not defending ATS. I think it should just go away and transition to a neighborhood school. But, it isn’t big enough for the immersion programs. [/quote]

The facilities optimization study identifies ATS as having the ability to have 753 seats (as compared to 749 at Key)
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Facilities-Optimization-Study.pdf[/quote]

That's with a LOT of trailers, which is not a permanent solution. And there isn't money for an addition, at ATS or anywhere else. So they either have to gradually scale back the size of the program if they are moved to a smaller space, or they have to be moved to a space that more closely matches their current capacity.

I don't know why you guys think they're going to do these multi-step processes. They can barely keep up with what's already planned with program moves, new schools opening, and boundary changes. There is neither the money nor the staff to manage moving multiple schools. And none of the option schools are going away. It's not going to happen. [/quote]

at least some members of the school board think trailers are a good solution.  
APS has a written plan to grow all elementary option schools to 700 plus students-
General Principles to Increase Enrollment at Option Schools
? Grow elementary option schools to 700+ students
? If a waitlist exists for the option school, add an entry-level class cohort
? Review the number of classes annually, after APS publishes enrollment projections, to determine if
adjustments are needed; staff will also refer to the class size report and confirm the information with
principals.
? Grow elementary option schools to the “preferred” size identified in the Facility Optimization Study
(August 2017)
? Apply the adjustment to all elementary option schools

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/AFSAP-Decision-Points-FINAL-03-06-19.pdf
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