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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No crowded classes at Cold Spring where my DD is in third grade.  most classes around 14-18 kids.  plenty of empty classrooms for extra individual attention and tutoring (or to remove one of the bad kids).[/quote]

See that really pisses me off.  We are right across the street at Ritchie Park.  We have tons of portables, high ratios and every school in our cluster is just as bad or worse.  Why they can not relocate Horizon Hill to Cold Spring is beyond me.   Either that or they should redistrict the never ending new buildings of Park Potomac to you or Beverly Farms - both under enrolled.  Yet they gave the overcrowded school who already had to deal with all of Fallsgrove coming to it, another new section when Park Potomac was built.  It is actually closer to Beverly Farms anyway.  I just do not understand it.  A new condo building will be opening in Spring 2015 and another round of increased enrollment will be hitting Ritchie Park. [/quote]
I live in the RP/JW/RM cluster as well, but note that the 5th elementary for RM is already approved for funding and will open in a couple years, so the overcrowding issue at the ES level is already being addressed.

With respect to the new condo/apartment development in Park Potomac, it's doubtful that it will add many students given the demographics [b](pre-marriage millennials and empty nesters) of likely buyers/renters.[/b]  In any event though, there will be other new construction coming to Wootton if the current zoning is retained when the Belwood Farm property is developed.

Lastly, if there were a permanent size imbalance between RM and Wootton or Churchill, moving Fallsgrove or Park Potomac would have the effect of increasing the socio-economic disparities between the two clusters given those are the two wealthiest pockets in RM.[/quote]

You sound like you work on the school board when this issue was brought up years ago.  Guess what?  It is NOT just empty nesters.  There are many Asian extended-families that purchase those huge townhouses and 4-5 students (siblings/cousins) per house go to the schools.  Many divorce families purchases the 2-3 bedroom condos.  Guess what, kids are there too. Lots of rentals for diplomats with kids too. This notion that kids are not living in townhouses and condos is insane.  [/quote]

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