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Middle & High School Boundaries

Discussion in 'Broadlands Community Issues' started by lilpea, Feb 11, 2013.

  1. joy

    joy New Member

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    The staff proposal, "Base Plan," used the same boundaries for middle and high schools, so Eagle Ridge and Briar Woods would have the same attendance zones. Currently, both Stone Hill MS and Eagle Ridge MS feed Briar Woods. All if Broadlands is currently in Eagle Ridge and Briar Woods. Brambleton is in Stone Hill MS and Briar Woods. With the new HS opening, the thought is to switch Stone Hill to the new HS. But since Briar Woods is in Brambleton, and they just added a small walk zone around it (parent lobbying?), they are using those as reasons to stay at Briar Woods.

    Not sure what growth you're trying to look at by school, but there's lots of information you can drill down into at http://lcps.org/Page/104720. It includes the presentation from last night now, too.

    I also suspect that no zone will want to leave Stone Bridge.
     
  2. Traci

    Traci New Member

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    If you're not already on the FB page Keep Broadlands Together, this would be a good time to bring this to the attention of a greater portion of our community. https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepbroadlandstogether/

    It's also important to waste not time in letting the SB especially our representative Kevin Kuesters know this is how you feel.
     
  3. Traci

    Traci New Member

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    If you are a resident of Broadlands & would like to join our group, please be send an email with your current address and DN, so we may approve your request.
    Thanks very much for your interest!

    PS Be sure to check your FB "Other" folder. If you're not friends with someone, they standardly send the emails there now. Once in your In-box, you'll find the link to the right.
     
  4. twohokies

    twohokies New Member

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    Thanks! I had looked at a one-pager posted on the FB page and it only showed ERMS & BWHS, but there were obviously larger numbers in the BW numbers than ER so I figured there was a middle school now showing on the page.
     
  5. wahoogeek

    wahoogeek New Member

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    I was surprised to see some of the proposed walking zones -- if these areas are approved, does that mean no bus service for those areas? Anyways, some seem to be engineered to force inclusion in one particular school.
     
  6. Mr. Linux

    Mr. Linux Senior Member & Moderator Forum Staff

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    FYI to families in DN30.1 and DN31 (Townhomes behind Hillside, all the way to the Safeway shopping center, including all of Overland Park) -

    The current Base Plan has these sections moved from Eagle Ridge MS/Briar Woods HS over to Farmwell Station MS/Broad Run HS. Essentially, they are splitting these two sections of Broadlands out and moving the kids to a different school than the rest of our community.

    I urge everyone in Broadlands, not only residents of the affected sections, but EVERYONE to voice their displeasure with this current plan. Our community worked very hard to keep Broadlands kids together at the ES level. Our older kids deserve the same kind of involvement by our community. During the ES boundary meetings, residents from non-affected sections provided their support for their neighbors. Hopefully, DN31 and DN30.1 can get the same level of support.

    You can post your comments directly on Eric Hornberger's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vote-Eric-Hornberger/202249939805781

    I would also encourage residents to contact Kevin Keusters (http://www.kevinservesloudoun.com/) and let him know that you want to keep Broadlands kids feeding into the same schools and not to split us. He also has a Facebook page where he's gathering input from residents: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kevin-Serves-Loudoun/159555617451695
     
  7. hberg

    hberg give me some of your tots

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    While the base plan may not be ideal for everyone (no plan is going to please everyone) the conceptual I saw has Briar Woods school attendance size (keeping all Broadlands together) being over 3000 kids with all other schools quite a bit under and I am not for that.
     
  8. sri_n

    sri_n Member

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    I see the base plan showing this as Broad Run HS, not Stone Bridge HS, am I missing something?
     
  9. Mr. Linux

    Mr. Linux Senior Member & Moderator Forum Staff

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    I'm sorry, that was a typo on my part... I've corrected it above. Thanks!
     
  10. sri_n

    sri_n Member

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    ah.. the pleasures of being admin, eh? :)
     
  11. joy

    joy New Member

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    The Conceptual Plan is much like Mr. Kuesters described during the Elementary boundary process. It has Briar Woods at 1900 students in 2017 according to the plan documents. It was nice of LCPS staff to present it and explain that it went over numbers, but the Base Plan presented is then so far off it doesn't seem like they even started with it. I would expect the final plan to look more like it, based on School Board previous comments.
     
  12. Lisa

    Lisa New Member

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    I can see Overland Park area going to Broad Run High since it is closer. Can't that area though continue to go to Eagle Ridge Middle School?
     
  13. Traci

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    The Boards most recent stance has been to support cluster alignment from ES through MS and up to HS. You can see this reflected on the current maps. I personally think this is a very good policy. There may be a few exceptions in areas where new schools are being built or where communitities were temporarily placed. HTH
     
  14. LvBlands3

    LvBlands3 New Member

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    What is wrong with Broad Run High School? Aren't all of the high schools out here good? Just wondering if I am missing something.
     
  15. flynnibus

    flynnibus Well-Known Member Forum Staff

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    schools built in the last ten years.. vs a school built decades ago...
     
  16. teachermom

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    the age and size of a building does not mean it is any worse or any better than any other school. If you are saying Broad Run is a "bad" school because it has been here forever you are WAY off base. It is a good school and offers the same programs as any other school in Loudoun County.
     
  17. Villager

    Villager Ashburn Village Resident

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    Here's my two cents:

    After reviewing the spreadsheet data provided by the LCPS planning department it appears to me that many so called reasonable school assignments may not be possible due to the locations of our schools. I'm not impressed with the geographical choices made by the LCPS planning department in this area. We are now in a situation where students who live within 1 mile of a school may be bussed to a school farther away, simply because the school cannot accommodate the number of students in the area. At this point there is nothing to be done about that, but it will definitely have a significant impact on this rezoning process.

    I worked with the spreadsheet numbers and when I tried to zone students to their closest, most easily accessible school, they simply do not all fit. Many students who live in the proximity of what parents consider "their school" are going to have to attend a school further away, which is unfortunate. Still, all of the schools in the Ashburn and Dulles North area are very good and are county schools, not community schools, so attending a school outside of any given HOA community, while not ideal, is still a Loudoun County public school and is a reasonable alternative in that regard.

    The spreadsheet that has been edited to include the designated zones in the base plan is available at http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ybwnzc9ma0ahdoc. People are welcome to use the data to create their own idea of a plan that would work for as many people as possible and present it to a school board member for review. If you can make the numbers work to get what you think is right, please let the board know of your plan so it may be reviewed.
     
  18. T8erman

    T8erman Well-Known Member

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    Certainly not defending the LCPS, but they can only buy land that is made available at the time a new school needs to be built. The housing boom in Loudoun during the 1990-2000's mostly dictated what land was available. Home builders were not about to sell prime real eastate adjacent (and LoCo not about to pay) when so much money was to be made.
     
  19. LvBlands3

    LvBlands3 New Member

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    I have only heard good things about Broad Run. Actually, Briar Woods seems to get a lot of complaints on these threads, so I don't understand why people wouldn't be open to having their kids go to Broad Run. It is actually closer anyway. I just asked because I really wasn't sure if I was missing something.
     
  20. teachermom

    teachermom New Member

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    at the risk of being bashed...I would not send my kid to BWHS. There are issues there. Not saying it is a bad school...but it has some problems. Not having a dog in this latest boundary decision, I really don't care what the outcome provided they decrease the over crowding. Which is why I supported the bond to build these schools. If we are not going to utilize them, why build them? Over crowding is not good for any student at any level. Being overly emotional about this process is not good either- the school board does not care that little Susie and Jenny have been best friends since kindergarten and is not a valid argument to "stay together". This issue is more problematic for the parents then for the children involved. Pitting neighbor against neighbor is just wrong.
     

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