Anonymous wrote:Yes. More buses might not be a bad thing. It is going to be very congested getting through on Wash Blvd when it opens.

Not really. School is after the main rush hour.

Yes. More buses might not be a bad thing. It is going to be very congested getting through on Wash Blvd when it opens.

Anonymous wrote:None of those schools will be options. But boundaries are gonna be weird and Reed will serve the neighborhoods mostly to its south and east (current McKinley and Glebe with a very modest amount from Tuckahoe). Plenty of people in Reed's "expanded walk zone" (which was unrealistically drawn last spring) will end up being bussed to Nottingham and Tuckahoe (as they are now). And you will get a freak out from the Leeway/Overlee crowd. But since we can't distribute new schools so that the walk zones are perfect concentric circles, this is just how it has to be.

I actually don't necessarily think that Leeway/Overlee will freak out over staying at Tuckahoe. People hate change and staying at Tuckahoe is not a change. There may be some level of angst from the people who live within .5 miles of Reed, but the rest will be ok. I'm sure until 16061 will go to Reed b/c Reed is inside the PU. That may actually be the only one assuming both Tuckahoe and Nottingham remain neighborhood schools. That will mean they need a lot more buses.

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Anonymous wrote:Still intrigued about Nottingham only having 50 kindergarteners this year. 91 1st graders and similar class sizes for older grades. Makes Nottingham a target. Tuckahoe has 94 kindergarteners.

Super weird. Contrast that with Ashlawn's 122 and McKinley's (insane) 143 and the cascading boundaries makes sense.

Oh McK. 6Ks again. It's starting to impact performance.

Eh. It's still a 10 on GS, but there are more behavior problems than when my first went through. Nottingham has 503 and Tuckahoe have 534. They each have one principal and one VP. McKinley has 796 and the same number of administrators. When you have 260-300 more kids, but no extra staff, behavior issues end up being ignored b/c there isn't enough bandwidth.

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Anonymous wrote:Still intrigued about Nottingham only having 50 kindergarteners this year. 91 1st graders and similar class sizes for older grades. Makes Nottingham a target. Tuckahoe has 94 kindergarteners.

Super weird. Contrast that with Ashlawn's 122 and McKinley's (insane) 143 and the cascading boundaries makes sense.

Oh McK. 6Ks again. It's starting to impact performance.

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Anonymous wrote:Still intrigued about Nottingham only having 50 kindergarteners this year. 91 1st graders and similar class sizes for older grades. Makes Nottingham a target. Tuckahoe has 94 kindergarteners.

Super weird. Contrast that with Ashlawn's 122 and McKinley's (insane) 143 and the cascading boundaries makes sense.

What's weird about it? There is a limited number of young families that can afford a $1.5 million "starter" home. The families there now with school aged children aren't going to move somewhere else for 20 years. It's a pretty clear sign to me that student generation and housing prices are very connected, and that in the coming years we'll see fewer new students from the wealthiest areas. Also explains why south Arlington needs another high school. Not just because the county board insists on building subsidized family housing along the same 1 mile stretch of the western pike, but because even UMC families can't afford to live in north Arlington, and are having kids in pentagon city condos instead.

This. You also find more townhomes and duplexes in SA which is equally accessible compared to million dollar homes in NA.

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Anonymous wrote:Still intrigued about Nottingham only having 50 kindergarteners this year. 91 1st graders and similar class sizes for older grades. Makes Nottingham a target. Tuckahoe has 94 kindergarteners.

Super weird. Contrast that with Ashlawn's 122 and McKinley's (insane) 143 and the cascading boundaries makes sense.

What's weird about it? There is a limited number of young families that can afford a $1.5 million "starter" home. The families there now with school aged children aren't going to move somewhere else for 20 years. It's a pretty clear sign to me that student generation and housing prices are very connected, and that in the coming years we'll see fewer new students from the wealthiest areas. Also explains why south Arlington needs another high school. Not just because the county board insists on building subsidized family housing along the same 1 mile stretch of the western pike, but because even UMC families can't afford to live in north Arlington, and are having kids in pentagon city condos instead.

Well that's good because I think the bulk of kids at Reed will be coming from that neck of the woods out of necessity to relieve overcrowding at McKinley and Ashlawn and Glebe. Wouldn't be surprised if most Nottingham and Tuckahoe units stay at those schools. Of course, all bets are off if they relocate the JAmestown preschool classes to Drew. Then they'll have to fill Jamestown which is underenrolled without county preK.

FYI: APS drew "expanded walk zones" for all schools as part of a process to evaluate existing walk zones. It wasn't a mandate for any of the schools. Historically, a road like Wash. Blvd. was considered uncrossable, but that was skewing numbers. Kids across Wash. Blvd. from Reed, for example, are some of the closest to Reed. A crossing guard would be at the light by the school and the point was to show what was possible, not what was decided. Likewise, kids from the other side of 66 walk to McK every day, but they aren't in the walkzone. They are within the distance of McK, but the 66 bridge acted as a barrier based upon the old criteria. APS realized that they needed to rethink the "walk zone" for bussing purposes, but it certainly wasn't using the expanded zone to designate who goes where.

None of those schools will be options. But boundaries are gonna be weird and Reed will serve the neighborhoods mostly to its south and east (current McKinley and Glebe with a very modest amount from Tuckahoe). Plenty of people in Reed's "expanded walk zone" (which was unrealistically drawn last spring) will end up being bussed to Nottingham and Tuckahoe (as they are now). And you will get a freak out from the Leeway/Overlee crowd. But since we can't distribute new schools so that the walk zones are perfect concentric circles, this is just how it has to be.

Anonymous wrote:Still intrigued about Nottingham only having 50 kindergarteners this year. 91 1st graders and similar class sizes for older grades. Makes Nottingham a target. Tuckahoe has 94 kindergarteners.

Super weird. Contrast that with Ashlawn's 122 and McKinley's (insane) 143 and the cascading boundaries makes sense.

Still intrigued about Nottingham only having 50 kindergarteners this year. 91 1st graders and similar class sizes for older grades. Makes Nottingham a target. Tuckahoe has 94 kindergarteners.

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Anonymous wrote:Yay, another ASFS/Key freak out.

Freak outs aren’t limited to Key and ASFS. Nottingham, Tuckahoe and ATS also love a good freak out.

And yet none of them are starting threads with their freak outs, trolling other schools, etc. you all have been losing your shit nonstop for a year now.

“You all?”

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Anonymous wrote:Yay, another ASFS/Key freak out.

Freak outs aren’t limited to Key and ASFS. Nottingham, Tuckahoe and ATS also love a good freak out.

And yet none of them are starting threads with their freak outs, trolling other schools, etc. you all have been losing your shit nonstop for a year now.

Anonymous wrote:Yay, another ASFS/Key freak out.

Freak outs aren’t limited to Key and ASFS. Nottingham, Tuckahoe and ATS also love a good freak out.