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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a stem school, but not a choice school. It's a neighborhood school.[/quote]

but the [b]school is so under enrolled you can just transfer there without even doing a lottery[/b]![/quote]

Really? I had not heard that. We are zoned Randolph, and I just got an earful from a neighbor this morning about that school. [/quote]

I also want more information in this! Is this a long term or just temporary thing? Did mentioning it here just start a stampede?[/quote]

Disclaimer: I don't have a student at Hoffman-Boston.  They actually started the STEM thing a few years ago (2012-13 maybe?) I think in part in an effort to see if they could convince others at overcrowded schools or who wanted to go to ASF to go there.  It was a failed experiment in that sense, but I have no idea what actual instruction is like.  I think APS doesn't publicize it very much because we are so in flux about finding seats for overcrowded schools in Arlington - I think they have to preserve space there one way or another for the interim seats solution until the new elementary school is built in S Arlington.  (Maybe make Hoffman Boston a prek/K center, maybe move 5th graders there, maybe move Montessori there, etc.)[/quote]

Are we holding our breath for a new elementary school? I feel like those with children in school now will not be benefitting from that.[/quote]

The new ES (which has an approved bond), wherever they put it in S. Arlington, is supposed to open 2018-19 school year. That means current K would be entering 4th grade. So two things 1) if you are currently in ES, you need to be more concerned about the interim seats solution and 2) if you have no kids or no school aged kids, you need to be concerned about where they put the school. (TJ Site, Gunston, Aurora Highlands, etc.) They need more outreach to civic associations, but honestly most people don't focus on where the ES will be in 10 years if they don't even have kids yet... 
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