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01-15-2009, 02:15 PM
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Madison city schools rezoning
I am looing to buy a house soon. My kids go to Heritage but I am willing to put them in W. Madison, Columbia or Mill Creek. I do not want them at Madison. When they re-zone is anyone aware if they will take kids from, for example, W. Madison and put them into Madison? I believe I have heard Madison is overcrowded and in need of repair so I would hope they would just pull kids from that school and put them at Mill Creek.
Anyone have any idea when this list will come out? The school district is making it very difficult to purchase a house if you are looking at a particular school.
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01-15-2009, 04:44 PM
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I just e-mailed Dr. Fowler to ask when the rezoning will be complete. He responded that they will be complete in March or April. Lovely-now how am I supposed to buy a house?
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01-16-2009, 06:40 AM
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Understanding is that they have already started running the models and none of them have made sense so far. The computer program balances demographics, free-lunch/poverty levels, etc. Unless the neighborhood actually adjoins school property, there is no guarantee. Another interesting outcome will be where the Triana kids end up. Can't wait.
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01-16-2009, 08:05 AM
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I thought I saw that the Triana kids are guaranteed to go to Mill Creek. I would be really upset if I was a parent whose kids went to a high performing school and the kids were going to be put into a lower performing school. We are considering Oakstone and I am guessing they will either stay at W. Madison or go to Mill Creek but they aren't far from Madison so that has me a little worried. There's always something......
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01-16-2009, 08:10 AM
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I guess I thought that when the new school opened they would take some neighborhoods out of their existing school and put them at the new school in order to free up space at those schools. I didn't think they would take kids from one existing school and place them in another already existing school.
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01-16-2009, 09:39 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by autobahn
Understanding is that they have already started running the models and none of them have made sense so far. The computer program balances demographics, free-lunch/poverty levels, etc. Unless the neighborhood actually adjoins school property, there is no guarantee. Another interesting outcome will be where the Triana kids end up. Can't wait.
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Triana kids will be at Mill Creek...it is in their contract with Madison City that they go to the new elementary school. So they will move from Columbia to Mill Creek. |
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01-16-2009, 09:41 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by boilrmkr
I thought I saw that the Triana kids are guaranteed to go to Mill Creek. I would be really upset if I was a parent whose kids went to a high performing school and the kids were going to be put into a lower performing school. We are considering Oakstone and I am guessing they will either stay at W. Madison or go to Mill Creek but they aren't far from Madison so that has me a little worried. There's always something......
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Oakstone will more than likely stay at W Madison or go to the new Mill Creek. What I have heard from a friend who lives there and has a child at W Madison. BTW, she loves W Madison!
I also have a very good friend whose kids go to Madison, and she absolutely loves it. |
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01-16-2009, 10:07 AM
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I hear good things about W. Madison too. Last June, when we had our first contract, we put a contract on a home in Oakstone. If we had been able to buy that house and had started the year at W. Madison I'm sure I would have been happy. We are now considering it again.
Hey, madisonmamma we made an offer on the Lexington house and he gave us a number he wouldn't go past and basically said take it or leave it. We didn't respond. A few weeks ago the same thing happened and he was within $2000 and wouldn't budge. The thing is, we are going to buy a more expensive house and he is losing out. I refuse to over pay.
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01-16-2009, 12:18 PM
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Does the children that live in Triana not go to Williams Elementary? I knew it was near the community and wondered.
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01-16-2009, 12:27 PM
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They currently go to Columbia in the Madison City schools.
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