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Anonymous wrote:I am registering my youngest for K in Feb. of 2013. I am hoping he will be safe and join siblings at AsFs. We are in Key District boundary and walk each morning to Science Focus.

Especially since ASF is a highly sought after specialty school, the school board would likely grandfather in all students if boundary changes were to take place in the future. Same with Key. The school board will not force kids out of the immersion program because of a boundary change. But the worst overcrowding is in the north western part of the county and not near the key/ASF boundary.

i hope SB wouldn't base its boundary decisions on whether a school is highly sought after or not.

couldn't SB also break up the overlap between Key and ASFS to bring in more north-side kids to ASFS, while moving some of the non-immersion Key kids to Long Branch/Henry?

i mean, it's not set in stone that Key/ASFS boundaries have to overlap, or is it?

No. It would make more sense for the north-side kids to go to the new schools in the north-side. If they are so up for walkers and not busing--they should keep us in boundary ao we can continue walking the 5-6 blocks to ASFS.

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Anonymous wrote:I am registering my youngest for K in Feb. of 2013. I am hoping he will be safe and join siblings at AsFs. We are in Key District boundary and walk each morning to Science Focus.

Especially since ASF is a highly sought after specialty school, the school board would likely grandfather in all students if boundary changes were to take place in the future. Same with Key. The school board will not force kids out of the immersion program because of a boundary change. But the worst overcrowding is in the north western part of the county and not near the key/ASF boundary.

i hope SB wouldn't base its boundary decisions on whether a school is highly sought after or not.

couldn't SB also break up the overlap between Key and ASFS to bring in more north-side kids to ASFS, while moving some of the non-immersion Key kids to Long Branch/Henry?

i mean, it's not set in stone that Key/ASFS boundaries have to overlap, or is it?

We live smack in between Nottingham and the new Williamsburg school - down the street and over to one, up the street and over the other way to the other. I'm anxious to see where we end up. In Fall 2015 I'll just have a third grader in elementary so who knows where we'll end up. My other child will be in 6th (at Williamsburg) maybe somehow that will make it easier (to sell to my kid at least) if younger child has to move?

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Anonymous wrote:I am registering my youngest for K in Feb. of 2013. I am hoping he will be safe and join siblings at AsFs. We are in Key District boundary and walk each morning to Science Focus.

Especially since ASF is a highly sought after specialty school, the school board would likely grandfather in all students if boundary changes were to take place in the future. Same with Key. The school board will not force kids out of the immersion program because of a boundary change. But the worst overcrowding is in the north western part of the county and not near the key/ASF boundary.

Thank you. This is what I was thinking too. Since I just bought this house 3 years ago--spec. to be in boundary for Key/ASFS-- I would lose my mind if we got moved or my siblings were split up. I am sure parents all acroos the County feel this way.

Anonymous wrote:I am registering my youngest for K in Feb. of 2013. I am hoping he will be safe and join siblings at AsFs. We are in Key District boundary and walk each morning to Science Focus.

Especially since ASF is a highly sought after specialty school, the school board would likely grandfather in all students if boundary changes were to take place in the future. Same with Key. The school board will not force kids out of the immersion program because of a boundary change. But the worst overcrowding is in the north western part of the county and not near the key/ASF boundary.

Anonymous wrote:What about the addition at Ashlawn, won't that impact boundaries as well?

I think the addition is to meet capacity projections at Ashlawn only.

I am registering my youngest for K in Feb. of 2013. I am hoping he will be safe and join siblings at AsFs. We are in Key District boundary and walk each morning to Science Focus.

Hopefully, we'll get some idea which direction APS will be going after tomorrow night.

What about the addition at Ashlawn, won't that impact boundaries as well?

When they explored boundary changes in 2008 it depended on the age of your child. 4th and 5th grades were grandfathered, I believe. Younger grades were not. And, if younger sibling had not yet started at the school, I don't think they were grandfathered.

I could be off regarding the specifics, but my point is that if your child is in 2nd grade and your neighborhood is rezoned, don't expect that you get to stay at your current school.

Do kids at a school (and possibly younger siblings of those kids) get grandfathered into their current school if there's a boundary change?

Anonymous wrote:For now boundaries will only change around Nottingham, Tuckahoe and Jamestown because of the new ES school.

And I think it's pretty safe to assume that if you put Wiliamsburg in the middle and draw a rough circle around it to create a Venn diagram of sorts, those will the portion of those schools that are redirected to the new ES when it opens in 2015.

For now boundaries will only change around Nottingham, Tuckahoe and Jamestown because of the new ES school.

Everyone put on your flak jackets!

I decided to start a new thread rather than continuing on the Science Focus thread asking about this. In addition to some of the info there, note that the capacity process is starting now, with announced changes expected beginning early in 2013.
http://www.arlnow.com/2012/09/07/with-new-schools-will-come-boundary-changes/