Anonymous
09/06/2025 22:00
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Honestly Option 4 looks the best – would turn QO into a solid high school in the county, and redistribute the area around far west River Road more equitably, as opposed to hoarding those students just for Northwest.
+1
Option 1 comes a close second.
This from a QO parent
"More equitably"? lol.
Anonymous
09/06/2025 21:53
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Honestly Option 4 looks the best – would turn QO into a solid high school in the county, and redistribute the area around far west River Road more equitably, as opposed to hoarding those students just for Northwest.
+1
Option 1 comes a close second.
This from a QO parent
Anonymous
09/04/2025 22:04
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Look all I know is that if my area gets redistricted from a W school to a non W school I’m just biting the bullet and sending my kids to Georgetown Prep.
It’s moving from Winston Churchill to Wootton
W to W. Duh!
Anonymous
09/04/2025 21:06
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just saw a sign today about keeping a neighborhood in the Churchill cluster and not redistricting to Wootton?
Curious why? Wootton is ranked 3rd in state and #191 in nation. Churchill is ranked 8th and #402.
What’s wrong with Wootton? [/quote]
I would guess it is because wayside is located in Potomac and people living around wayside are closer to churchill and identify their neighborhood to be Potomac and not Rockville. They should just move potomac glen to wootton and leave wayside alone. [/quote]
+100
I have been saying this for years...Potomac Glen should always have been in Wootton, not Churchill. It was a deal the builder made with the politicians. Wayside was just fine until they moved PG over there and then it became overcrowded and had to build a big addition. Now it would be underutilized if PG moved out. Disaster.
Curious why? Wootton is ranked 3rd in state and #191 in nation. Churchill is ranked 8th and #402.
What’s wrong with Wootton? [/quote]
I would guess it is because wayside is located in Potomac and people living around wayside are closer to churchill and identify their neighborhood to be Potomac and not Rockville. They should just move potomac glen to wootton and leave wayside alone. [/quote]
+100
I have been saying this for years...Potomac Glen should always have been in Wootton, not Churchill. It was a deal the builder made with the politicians. Wayside was just fine until they moved PG over there and then it became overcrowded and had to build a big addition. Now it would be underutilized if PG moved out. Disaster.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 11:56
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
I would love to see a cluster map of where students who attend private school live. Anecdotal, but I bet a lot of them are from these clusters with high poverty. Plenty of families of means live there already and don’t attend the schools.
What will happen if they create more high poverty schools?
What will happen if they create more high poverty schools?
Anonymous
09/04/2025 11:16
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Recent MCPS discussions in Reddit discuss the possibility of Magruder, Rockville, and Sherwood eventually being part of the boundary study and many are agreeing to it.
Hopefully it will be brought up at the next BOE meeting. If not, I think the chances are really small, since Flo would basically need to redo everything and also gather feedback from those areas.
That would be good. They are obviously trying to split up the cluster of poverty feeding to Kennedy by busing Kennedy students all the way over to Woodward and Farmland students all the way over to Kennedy.
It would be more helpful to split that up among schools that are closer — Rockville, Sherwood, Magruder etc.
The problem with that is those schools probably already have a decent sized FARMS population and adding anymore/taking away any non FARMS student would really affect them. (I didn't look any of this up and don't know what the numbers look like)
Walter Johnson likely has the lowest FARMS rate out of all of them. So moving around FARMS students wouldn't have them go above a certain threshold. ie for Option 3, which is probably the one with Kennedy students has the FARMS rate from Walter Johnson go from 19.8 to 32.6 percent.
It's not ideal but it leaves Walter Johnson towards the middle of the pack for FARMS rates. Most other schools (non W) could push it higher into the 40 percent range.
Part of the issue is that the county is segregated economically.
So you can't really split up the poverty without having students travel relatively far from their current home school.
Looks like Magruder has a 51 percent FARMS rate and Rockville 50 percent. So they really can't/shouldn't take on any additional FARMS students that aren't already in their school area.
Sherwood is 23.8, which isn't too far off from Walter Johnson's 21.1. But Sherwood is also often grouped together with the schools from the NEC cluster. So it's possible it would be involved with any possible boundary changes with schools in that area.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 11:08
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Recent MCPS discussions in Reddit discuss the possibility of Magruder, Rockville, and Sherwood eventually being part of the boundary study and many are agreeing to it.
Hopefully it will be brought up at the next BOE meeting. If not, I think the chances are really small, since Flo would basically need to redo everything and also gather feedback from those areas.
That would be good. They are obviously trying to split up the cluster of poverty feeding to Kennedy by busing Kennedy students all the way over to Woodward and Farmland students all the way over to Kennedy.
It would be more helpful to split that up among schools that are closer — Rockville, Sherwood, Magruder etc.
The problem with that is those schools probably already have a decent sized FARMS population and adding anymore/taking away any non FARMS student would really affect them. (I didn't look any of this up and don't know what the numbers look like)
Walter Johnson likely has the lowest FARMS rate out of all of them. So moving around FARMS students wouldn't have them go above a certain threshold. ie for Option 3, which is probably the one with Kennedy students has the FARMS rate from Walter Johnson go from 19.8 to 32.6 percent.
It's not ideal but it leaves Walter Johnson towards the middle of the pack for FARMS rates. Most other schools (non W) could push it higher into the 40 percent range.
Part of the issue is that the county is segregated economically.
So you can't really split up the poverty without having students travel relatively far from their current home school.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 10:57
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Recent MCPS discussions in Reddit discuss the possibility of Magruder, Rockville, and Sherwood eventually being part of the boundary study and many are agreeing to it.
Hopefully it will be brought up at the next BOE meeting. If not, I think the chances are really small, since Flo would basically need to redo everything and also gather feedback from those areas.
That would be good. They are obviously trying to split up the cluster of poverty feeding to Kennedy by busing Kennedy students all the way over to Woodward and Farmland students all the way over to Kennedy.
It would be more helpful to split that up among schools that are closer — Rockville, Sherwood, Magruder etc.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 10:40
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Honestly Option 4 looks the best – would turn QO into a solid high school in the county, and redistribute the area around far west River Road more equitably, as opposed to hoarding those students just for Northwest.
It's been a little while since I looked at the charts and numbers.
But from what I recall, it does it at the expense of the other surrounding schools. Northwest. And Crown is already taking like ten percent of the FARMS population from QO right off the bat.
Seneca Valley isn't that far too.
They should be able to find an option where the FARMS rate is a bit more balanced and distributed between those schools.
Why? It seems like we’re trying to redistrict poverty out of existence when it might be more effective to acknowledge that XYZ are high poverty areas, and thus have associated needs.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 10:10
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Honestly Option 4 looks the best – would turn QO into a solid high school in the county, and redistribute the area around far west River Road more equitably, as opposed to hoarding those students just for Northwest.
It's been a little while since I looked at the charts and numbers.
But from what I recall, it does it at the expense of the other surrounding schools. Northwest. And Crown is already taking like ten percent of the FARMS population from QO right off the bat.
Seneca Valley isn't that far too.
They should be able to find an option where the FARMS rate is a bit more balanced and distributed between those schools.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 09:57
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Honestly Option 4 looks the best – would turn QO into a solid high school in the county, and redistribute the area around far west River Road more equitably, as opposed to hoarding those students just for Northwest.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 06:54
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Anonymous wrote:Look all I know is that if my area gets redistricted from a W school to a non W school I’m just biting the bullet and sending my kids to Georgetown Prep.
It is not that easy to get into Georgetown prep?
Anonymous
09/04/2025 06:53
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
[quote=Anonymous]I just saw a sign today about keeping a neighborhood in the Churchill cluster and not redistricting to Wootton?
Curious why? Wootton is ranked 3rd in state and #191 in nation. Churchill is ranked 8th and #402.
What’s wrong with Wootton? [/quote]
I would guess it is because wayside is located in Potomac and people living around wayside are closer to churchill and identify their neighborhood to be Potomac and not Rockville. They should just move potomac glen to wootton and leave wayside alone.
Curious why? Wootton is ranked 3rd in state and #191 in nation. Churchill is ranked 8th and #402.
What’s wrong with Wootton? [/quote]
I would guess it is because wayside is located in Potomac and people living around wayside are closer to churchill and identify their neighborhood to be Potomac and not Rockville. They should just move potomac glen to wootton and leave wayside alone.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 05:07
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
Look all I know is that if my area gets redistricted from a W school to a non W school I’m just biting the bullet and sending my kids to Georgetown Prep.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 22:10
Subject: Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
People don't like change?