Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Cold Spring winds up assigned to a third middle school and high school within the span of a decade (CJMS/Wootton then Hoover/Churchill then JWMS/RM) they have every right to be big mad.

I bet they’d just send all of new Ritchie Park (incl Cold Spring) to Hoover and then RM.

Anonymous wrote:Cold Spring will close due its condition and under-utilization. This will create a cascading effect. When Cold Spring closes, I believe it will be moved to RM ES cluster, as RM will be under-utilized since it will no longer exist as a IB magnet program, meaning all of its kids will return to their “home school.” Churchill and Wootton kids make up a sizable chunk of RMIB. This would make Churchill even more overcrowded. So CSES will be moved to a RM ES. I don’t think Fallsgrove will end up at Lakewood for the same reason (RM will be underutilized--they need Fallsgrove to stay within RM boundaries). 

Instead, Fallsmead will join Lakewood. The Rio island, which makes up almost half of Fallsmead ES, will be moved out of Fallsmead (honestly, geographically, this never made sense to begin with). Once Fallsmead joins Lakewood, then Lakewood will be at full capacity. The Rio island could go to either Fields Road or Rosemont…both schools are very close. It may even be split. Rosemont will absolutely articulate more to GHS. If you look at utilization of GHS after the recommendation, GHS will have the second lowest utilization.

Aș for Dufief, because of regional programming and magnet programs disbanding and growth in the area, Crown will be overcrowded unless Dufief is moved to QOHS. This explains the motive behind royally pissing off Brown Station. The writing is on the way. MCPS did it to make room for what they will do during the ES round. Dufief is substantially closer to QOHS as well as QOHS middle school feeders.

Get ready for round 2 of musical chairs!

Anonymous wrote:If Cold Spring winds up assigned to a third middle school and high school within the span of a decade (CJMS/Wootton then Hoover/Churchill then JWMS/RM) they have every right to be big mad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cold Spring will close due its condition and under-utilization. This will create a cascading effect. When Cold Spring closes, I believe it will be moved to RM ES cluster, as RM will be under-utilized since it will no longer exist as a IB magnet program, meaning all of its kids will return to their “home school.” Churchill and Wootton kids make up a sizable chunk of RMIB. This would make Churchill even more overcrowded. So CSES will be moved to a RM ES. I don’t think Fallsgrove will end up at Lakewood for the same reason (RM will be underutilized--they need Fallsgrove to stay within RM boundaries). 

Instead, Fallsmead will join Lakewood. The Rio island, which makes up almost half of Fallsmead ES, will be moved out of Fallsmead (honestly, geographically, this never made sense to begin with). Once Fallsmead joins Lakewood, then Lakewood will be at full capacity. The Rio island could go to either Fields Road or Rosemont…both schools are very close. It may even be split. Rosemont will absolutely articulate more to GHS. If you look at utilization of GHS after the recommendation, GHS will have the second lowest utilization.

Aș for Dufief, because of regional programming and magnet programs disbanding and growth in the area, Crown will be overcrowded unless Dufief is moved to QOHS. This explains the motive behind royally pissing off Brown Station. The writing is on the way. MCPS did it to make room for what they will do during the ES round. Dufief is substantially closer to QOHS as well as QOHS middle school feeders.

Get ready for round 2 of musical chairs!

This makes a lot of sense but I am still a little confused about Fallsmead, can you clarify? The part of Fallsmead that is close to the current Wootton building would get moved to Lakewood (and Fallsmead is closed?) while the current Rio Island winds up at Fields Road? That would make FieldsRoad overcrowded but the parts near 28 could be bumped to Stone Mill or Dufief? Isn't this all the same group of kids they currently have at Wootton/Crown just being shuffled around?

Fallsmead closes as moving their Rio island out would put them significantly underutilized. The Rio island ends up at either Fields Road or Rosemont, or even split between the two. Fields Road will definitely be overcrowded and have to bump kids. Some may end up at QO as I think Dufief is closing too.

Anonymous wrote:Rut roh...the Parkway Pavement Pounders are about to be PISSED if Fallsmead closes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cold Spring will close due its condition and under-utilization. This will create a cascading effect. When Cold Spring closes, I believe it will be moved to RM ES cluster, as RM will be under-utilized since it will no longer exist as a IB magnet program, meaning all of its kids will return to their “home school.” Churchill and Wootton kids make up a sizable chunk of RMIB. This would make Churchill even more overcrowded. So CSES will be moved to a RM ES. I don’t think Fallsgrove will end up at Lakewood for the same reason (RM will be underutilized--they need Fallsgrove to stay within RM boundaries). 

Instead, Fallsmead will join Lakewood. The Rio island, which makes up almost half of Fallsmead ES, will be moved out of Fallsmead (honestly, geographically, this never made sense to begin with). Once Fallsmead joins Lakewood, then Lakewood will be at full capacity. The Rio island could go to either Fields Road or Rosemont…both schools are very close. It may even be split. Rosemont will absolutely articulate more to GHS. If you look at utilization of GHS after the recommendation, GHS will have the second lowest utilization.

Aș for Dufief, because of regional programming and magnet programs disbanding and growth in the area, Crown will be overcrowded unless Dufief is moved to QOHS. This explains the motive behind royally pissing off Brown Station. The writing is on the way. MCPS did it to make room for what they will do during the ES round. Dufief is substantially closer to QOHS as well as QOHS middle school feeders.

Get ready for round 2 of musical chairs!

This makes a lot of sense but I am still a little confused about Fallsmead, can you clarify? The part of Fallsmead that is close to the current Wootton building would get moved to Lakewood (and Fallsmead is closed?) while the current Rio Island winds up at Fields Road? That would make FieldsRoad overcrowded but the parts near 28 could be bumped to Stone Mill or Dufief? Isn't this all the same group of kids they currently have at Wootton/Crown just being shuffled around?

Fallsmead closes as moving their Rio island out would put them significantly underutilized. The Rio island ends up at either Fields Road or Rosemont, or even split between the two. Fields Road will definitely be overcrowded and have to bump kids. Some may end up at QO as I think Dufief is closing too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cold Spring will close due its condition and under-utilization. This will create a cascading effect. When Cold Spring closes, I believe it will be moved to RM ES cluster, as RM will be under-utilized since it will no longer exist as a IB magnet program, meaning all of its kids will return to their “home school.” Churchill and Wootton kids make up a sizable chunk of RMIB. This would make Churchill even more overcrowded. So CSES will be moved to a RM ES. I don’t think Fallsgrove will end up at Lakewood for the same reason (RM will be underutilized--they need Fallsgrove to stay within RM boundaries). 

Instead, Fallsmead will join Lakewood. The Rio island, which makes up almost half of Fallsmead ES, will be moved out of Fallsmead (honestly, geographically, this never made sense to begin with). Once Fallsmead joins Lakewood, then Lakewood will be at full capacity. The Rio island could go to either Fields Road or Rosemont…both schools are very close. It may even be split. Rosemont will absolutely articulate more to GHS. If you look at utilization of GHS after the recommendation, GHS will have the second lowest utilization.

Aș for Dufief, because of regional programming and magnet programs disbanding and growth in the area, Crown will be overcrowded unless Dufief is moved to QOHS. This explains the motive behind royally pissing off Brown Station. The writing is on the way. MCPS did it to make room for what they will do during the ES round. Dufief is substantially closer to QOHS as well as QOHS middle school feeders.

Get ready for round 2 of musical chairs!

This makes a lot of sense but I am still a little confused about Fallsmead, can you clarify? The part of Fallsmead that is close to the current Wootton building would get moved to Lakewood (and Fallsmead is closed?) while the current Rio Island winds up at Fields Road? That would make FieldsRoad overcrowded but the parts near 28 could be bumped to Stone Mill or Dufief? Isn't this all the same group of kids they currently have at Wootton/Crown just being shuffled around?

Anonymous wrote:Cold Spring will close due its condition and under-utilization. This will create a cascading effect. When Cold Spring closes, I believe it will be moved to RM ES cluster, as RM will be under-utilized since it will no longer exist as a IB magnet program, meaning all of its kids will return to their “home school.” Churchill and Wootton kids make up a sizable chunk of RMIB. This would make Churchill even more overcrowded. So CSES will be moved to a RM ES. I don’t think Fallsgrove will end up at Lakewood for the same reason (RM will be underutilized--they need Fallsgrove to stay within RM boundaries). 

Instead, Fallsmead will join Lakewood. The Rio island, which makes up almost half of Fallsmead ES, will be moved out of Fallsmead (honestly, geographically, this never made sense to begin with). Once Fallsmead joins Lakewood, then Lakewood will be at full capacity. The Rio island could go to either Fields Road or Rosemont…both schools are very close. It may even be split. Rosemont will absolutely articulate more to GHS. If you look at utilization of GHS after the recommendation, GHS will have the second lowest utilization.

Aș for Dufief, because of regional programming and magnet programs disbanding and growth in the area, Crown will be overcrowded unless Dufief is moved to QOHS. This explains the motive behind royally pissing off Brown Station. The writing is on the way. MCPS did it to make room for what they will do during the ES round. Dufief is substantially closer to QOHS as well as QOHS middle school feeders.

Get ready for round 2 of musical chairs!

Anonymous wrote:Hi everyone,

Writing here because I’d like everyone’s thoughts. I’ve seen a lot of fear-mongering about Fields Road recently, with people suggesting it’s going to bring down the quality of Wootton @ Crown.

I’m writing here now with somewhat of the opposite concern: my worry is that following the next Elementary School study Fields Road could become essentially gentrified and sections of it that are currently less affluent could be reassigned to Summit Hall or another Gaithersburg High ES feeder.

Here’s my reasoning:

Fields Road is already over-crowded, but once Downtown Crown is removed from the Rosemont island, part of it will likely have to move into Fields Road. If that’s the case, they might have to move out the families that live north of Fields Road ES along Muddy Branch Road to make room for newcomers. This is even more likely to be the case if they decide to close to DuFief, as that will require redistricting of DuFief’s current area to a split between Stone Mill, Rachel Carson, and Travilah, which would take up any available space to move Downtown Crown people to Stone Mill as opposed to Fields Road. Lakewood will also not have room if they’re taking on people from Fallsgrove as many think will be the case.

Additional to this is that removing Downtown Crown from Rosemont is going to put pressure to increase the cachement area of Gaithersburg HS elementary schools to keep them open.

And I know some believe some new elementary school is about to be built on Key West Ave but that’s not in the CIP right now so don’t think that’s an out here.

My concern about this has increased seeing how casual and confident MCPS was in screwing over Brown Station last minute. They’re currently acting like Wootton @ Crown is some redistribution - esque event, but with this next study I wonder if they’re just going to essentially find the way of making it revert to being pretty much demographically analogous to how Wootton is now.