Bruce Crispell talks about facility planning in the Walter Johnson Cluster |
This slide shows the elementary school enrollment from 2007 to 2015. Overall there has been significant growth with Ashburton Elementary school the largest (918 students) and still growing. Garret Park is also growing rapidly and is now the second largest elementary school in the cluster with 807 children enrolled.
Student generation rate by housing type, southwest area of Montgomery county |
Pamela Dunn talks about the Subdivision Staging Policy (SSP) |
She talked about how after 2008 they changed how the calculate the student generation rate of new housing to use actual MCPS student addresses matched to structure type information (Single family detached, single family attached, Mid-rise multifamily, and High-rise multifamily).
After the presentation, they had tables set up where people could ask questions about specific parts of the process. The one related to the public schools was the most crowded, but they also had a table for the Rock Spring development, the White Flint 2 development, and the road and school capacity planning (The Subdivision Staging Policy). The public schools table was by far the most popular.
This meeting was much more informative than the Rock Spring planning meeting, but, the final result is that they still don't have a plan for handling the students coming from the high density infill development they are proposing.