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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP and MPSA parent here: the proposal to move MPSA to NW is not from the Montessori community. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to stay at CC. There are a few neighborhood activists who want to move MPSA off site – see last school board meeting where one of them proposed moving to the NW.
Montessori haters just gonna hate, but one quick thing that may help others new to the issue: there are roughly 700 APS Montessori students now prek-8 across a half-dozen buildings. There were literally hundreds more applicants this year than open slots – go watch lottery videos for yourself. MPSA and Gunston program will grow more, as they have for years. Whoever said the demand stops after prek is wackadoo. As for shutting down options, that made me laugh. You want 1ks of kids suddenly flooding back into neighbor schools?
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Well, the neighborhood schools aren't so overcrowded now, so why not? And it's not thousands, or even one thousand - whatever you meant by "1ks."

Montessori always presents stats to distort people's initial reactions to their favor.  The increase in applicants is pre-K.  There is high demand for preschool in general.  You don't have hundreds more clamoring for middle school.  Montessori likes to believe there's huge demand through high school. There isn't.  So, tell us the % of preK kids who apply to continue?  And tell us the % of 5th graders who continue into middle school.  How many people are applying somewhere in the middle?

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/U-MEM_281-Membership-Summary-All.pdf

"..700 APS Montessori students now prek-8 across a half-dozen buildings."  Let's remind everyone that about 90(?) of those are the total # of middle schoolers and they are all in ONE building.

Total preK = 230.  103 are at the MPSA building at the CC site.  K-5 enrollment at the MPSA building is 390.  Look at that:  103 in one grade level (preK) and 390 across 6 grade levels (K-5).
PreK NOT at the MPSA site (230-103) = 127.  That's 127 students in 6 different buildings.  
70 of those are at Discovery (30) and Jamestown (40).
Smallest prek is 8 - EIGHT - at Carlin Springs.

So, it's 127 students across 6 buildings; 493 at one building; and about 90 (? enrollment not broken out by program on this document) at another building.
Compare Montessori's 230 preschoolers to 474 VPI preschoolers across 16 schools, more evenly distributed with the outlier of Hoffman Boston with 58.  Montessori's supposed to serve under-privileged kids. What % of the 230 Montessori preschoolers are underprivileged - and not Arlington Montessori's definition of low-income.... eligible for FRL low-income?

I don't see MPSA and Gunston program enrollment having significantly grown over the years. Grew some this year to 493 at MPSA.  Last year 455.  Year before that 456.  Don't know what it was when combined with Drew.

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