If HS8 holds 1600 students and 695 come from Lansdowne on the Potomac and Lansdowne Village Green, where will the rest come from? The Broad Run and Stone Bridge High School attendance zones, according to LCPS planner Sara Howard O-Brien. This map was colored in by Broad Run School Board member Kevin Keusters; the purple indicates areas that are built out. [Click to enlarge the map.].
Middle school zones for Belmont Ridge, Eagle Ridge, Farmwell, Trailside, and Stone Hill Middle Schools. will be considered concurrently, Howard-O’Brien said.
LCPS weighs seven factors when assigning attendance areas. Facilities, proximity, community and demographics are “initial considerations” and accessibility, stability, and cluster alignment are “further considerations.”
If you were hired to perform Director of Planning and Legislative Services Sam Adamo’s job, what would you do about Lansdowne Village Green? Would you continue to bus students from Lansdowne Town Center to Belmont Station Elementary? Or would you assign them to Seldens Landing, their most proximate school?
Where would you build a school to accommodate overflow from Briar Woods and Broad Run High Schools?
Lansdowne Village green students should NOT be zoned to Seldens Landing Elementary school because they are a different HOA and community from the rest of Lansdowne and built years after our community was built and our children established in Seldens Landing. If there were enough capacity, then I think they should go, but there isn’t enough capacity at the school already, so they should continue to go to Belmont Green or Stuart Weller instead of displacing both their children and our children and increasing tax payer transportation costs.