Downtown Bethesda has had insane development in the recent years. All the high rises that developers swore up and down would be for professional adults, no kids, are filling up with families of young kids eager to go to attend Bethesda public schools. For now, BCC is not over capacity, because we're mostly seeing the impact on Bethesda Elementary, which will need to add more portables soon.

But make no mistake - BCC is on its way to being completely inundated in a few years.

So there needs to be a downcounty boundary study to review all this.

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Anonymous wrote:The immersion cohort from rockcreek to Westland then they don’t go to BCC unless they live in the BCC boundary

Where do they go?

They can go to their home HS, apply for a magnet HS program, private HS, homeschool etc.

Anonymous wrote:B-CC doesn’t have special immersion programming, so it makes sense that kids who are not in-boundary would go to their inbounds high school. They go to Westland because they have special programming for immersion students.

+1 Without an immersion component (which no MCPS high school has), it does not make sense to automatically move immersion kids to B-CC. Moreover, the projections for enrollment are based on new buildings in Bethesda, and those kids returning to their home high schools.

Anonymous wrote:Of course! It will happen right as Taylor gets the additional $284 million he needs from BOE 🙄

Even with the huge increase, which is interesting as student numbers decrease, he will be like the previous superintendents and waste it vs. put it student needs.

B-CC doesn’t have special immersion programming, so it makes sense that kids who are not in-boundary would go to their inbounds high school. They go to Westland because they have special programming for immersion students.

I wish they would reconsider

Anonymous wrote:Immersion students that go from rock creek forest go to Westland then back to their home high school. They used to be able to go to BCC from Westland.

But then they changed the policy, eliminating that option.

Their home high school

Anonymous wrote:The immersion cohort from rockcreek to Westland then they don’t go to BCC unless they live in the BCC boundary

Where do they go?

The immersion cohort from rockcreek to Westland then they don’t go to BCC unless they live in the BCC boundary

Do you mean there is a cohort at Westland that goes to a different high school? My kid went from Westland to BCC and I was not aware of that.

Immersion students that go from rock creek forest go to Westland then back to their home high school. They used to be able to go to BCC from Westland.

Of course! It will happen right as Taylor gets the additional $284 million he needs from BOE 🙄

Well they’re doing a whole big boundary study next year. Who knows.

Do you think they will ever open the option for immersion students to go to BCC from Westland?