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VOLUME 81 NO. 42 SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2016
ARLINGTON’S SOURCE FOR HOMETOWN NEWS SINCE 1935
School Officials Still Evaluating Capacity Needs
First-Day-of-School Figures Slated for Release This Week SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer
Most Arlington students headed back to class this week, while school officials continue their efforts at conjuring enough seats to accommodate the long-term needs of the 25,000-student-and-growing system. Having worked to address capacity issues at the elementary-school and middle-school levels, county school leaders are now focusing their attention on high schools. At an Aug. 30 work session, School Board members considered options to address the short-term high-school needs, with much of the discussion centered on crowding at Washington-Lee High School. Even after wringing extra academic space from every nook and cranny of the building in recent years, Washington-Lee is projected to be 180 students over capacity for the current school year, 327 next year and up to 500 by 2025 if changes to boundaries, building size or both don’t occur. At the work session, “the board considered relocatables, boundary adjustments, and changes to admissions and transfer policies,” School Board Chairman Nancy Van Doren said. “In the end, the board decided to pursue the planned boundary refinements as the most effective way to meet seat needs and balance capacity among the high schools.” School Board members also have agreed to consider revisions to admissions and transfer policies for highschool students, “to allow for choice where capacity allows – and to include transportation,” Van Doren said. Both Wakefield and Yorktown high schools will be receiving internal modifications to free up space for 300
are found and wherever they go – in place by the 2022-23 school year. Arlington school officials also have to contend with new requirements that will be mandated under the state government’s “Profile of a Graduate” initiative, set to roll out with the class of high-school freshmen arriving in September 2018. Arlington school officials have been working closely Continued on Page 14
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additional seats each, and the Arlington Tech program (which opened to freshmen this week) is expected to expand significantly on a year-over-year basis. But it all won’t be enough, if projections pan out: At least 1,300 additional seats will need to be created, according to growth estimates, with some parents pushing for a completely new high school and school leaders apparently more eager for smaller school programs that can dot the county. School officials want those extra seats – however they
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While the 2016-17 school year has just started for most Arlington students, those at Barcroft Elementary School have been back in class since Aug. 1, as their school operates on a modified-year-round schedule. Above, Allison Parada and Christian Gomez Ordonez, students in the second-grade class of Elizbeth Aspacio, learn about coin values. See a slide show of photos from the PHOTO BY DEB KOLT classroom on the Web site at www.insidenova.com/news/arlington