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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They can open KAA in 2026. That section of the County has a series of schools that are overcrowded, and this is the time to address those issues.

The boundaries of the overcrowded schools need to be addressed for 2026. Coates, Chantilly, Centerville, WSHS are the ones I know off the top of my head. I am sure that there are others. Those have to be addressed this year.

Remove IB schools. Maybe keep the program at the schools that have a greater then 15% completion rate, and by that, I mean across the entire school population and not just the kids who take one IB class, and allow kids to apply to participate in IB. That is what Arlington does. People are not going to apply to take IB at Lewis and Mt. Vernon, we already know that. People might apply to participate at Robinson, Marshall, and Edison because the schools are good schools and the program is attractive to them. The completion rates at SLHS, Annandale, Justice, Lewis, and Mount Vernon are awful. The only one of those schools that have a high transfer in rate is SLHS and those are kids leaving Herndon HS, most who went to AAP at Hughes and have friends at SLHS. It is unclear if those kids use IB or language to transfer, SLHS has Japanese and HHS does not.

The rest of the boundary changes can wait or don't need to happen.

The CIP priorities need to be explored and redone so that schools with serious needs, like McLean, are addressed immediately.

All we do by expanding every school is create unused spaces, many times nearby, and waste money. I get that people don't want to move but we are wasting money to expand schools when there are spaces at other schools. Centerville does not need to be expanded, especially now that there is KAA. [/quote]

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Just copy Arlington. One centrally located neighborhood high school that has both a full AP program for the neighborhood students and a countywide magnet IB program. Marshall or Robinson might meet the criteria.

Also don't assume every IB applicant would automatically get a transfer spot. W-L turns applicants away, as does Richard Montgomery (in Rockville). [/quote]

Marshall barely has enough space for its current enrollment and over 1/2 of growing Tysons feeds into Marshall, so it can’t house a regional IB program.

The obvious site for any regional IB program is Lewis, which has surplus capacity. [/quote]

But no one will go there. It is that simple. 
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