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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know Fleet is only about 3/4 of a mile from the current Patrick Henry site, but it is closer to the North/South Arlington line. I wonder if, when they're redrawing boundaries, more kids from north of Arlington Blvd will be zoned there. [/quote]

Henry is massively overcrowded. I think they have enough for a second school without taking kids from Longbranch. Plus, I think ALcova Heights is lobbying very hard to move from Barcroft, even though Barcroft is the only school not projected to be overcapacity any time soon...[/quote]

They have to take kids from Long Branch to make room for kids from Rosslyn/ASFS. with key lottery change, ASFS will be the most crowded elementary within 4 years. [/quote]

I don't think Alcova Heights is getting rezoned either. But Fleet will not be some sort of dumping ground for all those ASFS families who don't want an overcrowded school. Right now Henry and ASFS have roughly the same amount of students, about 675 kids. Fleet has a capacity for 725. Those 50 extra seats aren't enough to solve the overcrowding issue. So yes - some Patrick Henry families won't be able to go to Fleet. But some current ASFS families will be pushed out of that zone as well. [/quote]
Yea, Long branch is also really overcrowded and doesn't have room for trailers.  I'm not sure why people from asfs ever though long branch could take any of the asfs overflow.  It's over capacity.  The asfs boundary change will push kids north to Taylor and Jamestown.  Depending on what they do (establishing a walk zone for Asfs as is or switching facilities with key), either Taylor will lose all of its cherrydale and Lyon village kids to asfs and pick up all of courthouse/Clarendon/Rosslyn.  If they switch facilities, then the asfs crowding issue more or less goes away if they just send the transfers back to their home school (the number of transfers is roughly equal to the number of kids from the asfs zone that currently opt for immersion).  Regardless, fleet might take some kids from long branch, but it would be to reduce crowding at long branch.  Not to reduce crowding at asfs.[/quote]

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