Ok, FIRST replied back this morning and said it would not affect this new team's rookie status either way. This seems true based on Rule #5 from the Rookie Team Criteria:
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5. If individual students who have been involved in a team leave that school and start a team in their new school that team also is generally considered a Rookie, providing it meets condition 1, and does not involve sufficient students to be considered a version of condition 3. As a maximum, the number of students in the new team that have competed in prior teams must not exceed 5.
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