Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rising prices imply steady or increasing demand for housing. If people were really leaving the county in droves, demand would decrease and prices would go down.

And yet the census shows a population decline and school enrollment is declining. It’s still possible to have rising prices amid declining population if there’s a supply/demand mismatch in certain segments or households are smaller.

Fake news.
School enrollment is increasing , again. It only declined during the pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:RM, QO, Northwest, and Gaithersburg will be overcrowded when Crown opens. As is Churchill. Only Wootton has space available in the area, but not nearly enough to relieve all the schools.

And yes, MCPS loses the land rights if they don't build Crown.

I believed, until I ran the numbers. Overcrowding is BS. RM, QO, NW and Gaithersburg could just shift boundaries to less crowded schools. But that would mean, for example, assigning kids to Watkins Mill.

I'm now in the camp that says the only reason why Crown is being built is to (a) keep the land rights and (b) provide the Central Office staff who live in CG and work at Hungerford with COSA options.

Anonymous wrote:RM, QO, Northwest, and Gaithersburg will be overcrowded when Crown opens. As is Churchill. Only Wootton has space available in the area, but not nearly enough to relieve all the schools.

And yes, MCPS loses the land rights if they don't build Crown.

Anonymous wrote:I believe ya'll when it comes to local demographics, but note that nationwide the school age population is getting smaller.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/opinion/declining-enrollment.html

"The number of school-age children in America is declining. At least one reason is the falling birthrate after the Great Recession. And declining university enrollment based on a lower school-age population — which has been described as a “demographic cliff” — is something that some colleges are already grappling with."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rising prices imply steady or increasing demand for housing. If people were really leaving the county in droves, demand would decrease and prices would go down.

And yet the census shows a population decline and school enrollment is declining. It’s still possible to have rising prices amid declining population if there’s a supply/demand mismatch in certain segments or households are smaller.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RM, QO, Northwest, and Gaithersburg will be overcrowded when Crown opens. As is Churchill. Only Wootton has space available in the area, but not nearly enough to relieve all the schools.

And yes, MCPS loses the land rights if they don't build Crown.

What is the deadline to build Crown before MCPS loses the land rights?

I believe they had 20 years starting in 2006 for the construction project to be funded.

There's more info here:

https://www.gaithersburgmd.gov/government/projects-in-the-city/crown-farm-high-school

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RM, QO, Northwest, and Gaithersburg will be overcrowded when Crown opens. As is Churchill. Only Wootton has space available in the area, but not nearly enough to relieve all the schools.

And yes, MCPS loses the land rights if they don't build Crown.

What is the deadline to build Crown before MCPS loses the land rights?

I believe they had 20 years starting in 2006 for the construction project to be funded.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RM, QO, Northwest, and Gaithersburg will be overcrowded when Crown opens. As is Churchill. Only Wootton has space available in the area, but not nearly enough to relieve all the schools.

And yes, MCPS loses the land rights if they don't build Crown.

What is the deadline to build Crown before MCPS loses the land rights?

I believe they had 20 years starting in 2006 for the construction project to be funded.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Crown doesn’t really need to be built. There are enough high school space to accommodate some overcrowding high schools. All they need to do is just to slightly shift the boundaries.

"Slightly" shift which boundaries where?

QO to Gaithersburg or Wootton. Gaithersburg/RM to magruder, sherwood,etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RM, QO, Northwest, and Gaithersburg will be overcrowded when Crown opens. As is Churchill. Only Wootton has space available in the area, but not nearly enough to relieve all the schools.

And yes, MCPS loses the land rights if they don't build Crown.

What is the deadline to build Crown before MCPS loses the land rights?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Crown doesn’t really need to be built. There are enough high school space to accommodate some overcrowding high schools. All they need to do is just to slightly shift the boundaries.

"Slightly" shift which boundaries where?

Anonymous wrote:

Crown doesn’t really need to be built. There are enough high school space to accommodate some overcrowding high schools. All they need to do is just to slightly shift the boundaries.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They pulled a permit for Northwood construction. https://mocoshow.com/2024/01/19/198-million-permit-pulled-for-new-northwood-high-school-construction/

Both Northwood and Crown have the same completion date. So if crown permit hasn’t been pulled, does it mean crown cannot be completed by Aug 2027?