How many kids in Crestwood are going into middle school next year? How about the year after that?

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13th and Nicholson is in Brightwood or Brightwood Park it is not defined as "16th Street Heights".

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, we will probably move to Crestwood or 16th St Heights for it's proximity to Walter Reed and DCI when our kids get older. We are at a feeder and DCI is FAR.

Crestwood would love to have you! Lots of families with kids in DCI feeders here. It's been a wonderful place for my family. Nice yards, easy access to Rock Creek, and friendly neighbors. I would love nothing more than to be wrong about young families no longer moving here.

I'm highly interested in Crestwood for this reason. Which charters? LAMB here.

Lots of LAMB families here. Ask around at school. Or take a walk on a nice weekend day and ask some families you see playing outside.

This is great to hear. There's only two LAMB families that I know in my neighborhood- Petworth. Are the LAMB families in younger grades? We'll be in K next year.

LAMB family here just on the edge of 16th St. Heights and Petworth, technically in 16th St. Heights (West is our inbound, currently zoned for Deal). Our daughter is going into 1st next year, younger daughter starting in Preschool. We are moving from the SD campus to the MO campus next year (yeah for the commute!). I don't know of many LAMB families in 16th St. heights, but do know of a few in Crestwood. We feel so fortunate to be so close to DCI and are firmly planted in our home for the duration. FWIW, I think homes in my neighborhood are slightly less pricey than in Crestwood, but not by much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:13th and Nicholson is in Brightwood or Brightwood Park it is not defined as "16th Street Heights".

It's south of Missouri, east of 16th st, west of Georgia, and north of Arkansas. What are 16th St Height's boundaries? I'm not sure there's a clear consensus on that.

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Anonymous wrote:13th and Nicholson is in Brightwood or Brightwood Park it is not defined as "16th Street Heights".

It's south of Missouri, east of 16th st, west of Georgia, and north of Arkansas. What are 16th St Height's boundaries? I'm not sure there's a clear consensus on that.

that sounds more like 16th SH boundaries, than Brightwood (or did I misunderstand your comment?). We are just north of Arkansas on 13th & Delafield and have never been considered part of Brightwood. We are just on the border of Petworth, but have always seen us listed in 16th. SH on maps.

[Anonymous]

the boundaries are not solid in 16th Street Heights--13th and Delafield is solidly in 16th Street Heights but it is the Brightwood Park area that is trickier which is typically north of kennedy west of Georgia and east of 14th street. The 16th Street Heights part of the north area is all the blocks west of 16th street street that have fed in the past (and currently) to Brightwood and Deal ...like the 1400 and 1600 blocks of Montague and Madison etc. All south of Military/Missouri...

My friend on the 1300 blocks of Madison and Colorado consider themselves n Brightwood Park.

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Anonymous wrote:Crestwood resident here. I bought in the neighborhood for Deal and Wilson almost three years ago. So did both of my adjacent neighbors who currently have kids in elementary school. We aren't captured in your data. If you care so little about me and my children and my neighbor's kids -- leave us alone and don't pick nasty fights on the Internet. We aren't contributing to Deal overcrowding, but retaining Deal means so very much to us.

Cutting out Crestwood out of Deal and Wilson will absolutely hurt the fabric of our neighborhood community. I don't expect people outside of our neighborhood to understand that, and I guess, if they lack basic human empathy, I suppose they won't care. We have a wonderful block where kids run around and play, we organize informal BBQs and block parties, and we wouldn't be here if it weren't for being IB for Deal and Wilson. I really believe drawing us out of Deal and Wilson will hurt the vibrancy of my neighborhood, and it breaks my heart.

Just curious, where did/will your (and your neighbors') kids go to elementary?

We moved here when my oldest DC was in preschool at a charter. The charter ultimately wasn't a good fit for DC, and DC will be going to elementary OOB this fall. My neighbors' kids go to charters & OOB for elementary.

I have to say this makes me question your argument that your neighborhood will lose a sense of community if you're cut out of Deal/Wilson. Sounds like all the kids go to different elementaries already (not your neighborhood school) and yet you still have a sense of community.

My point is that none of these families with young children would have moved here if Crestwood weren't IB for Deal and Wilson. Without D & W, families like mine and my neighbors' won't be moving here anymore.

I agree with this. I'm in 16th St Heights, but the house we bought 2 years ago is in the Deal district, with feeder rights to Wilson. That was a huge part of why we bought this house. We love the neighborhood, and were worried about the schools, but this sealed the deal. Now the lines will be moved, and we too might have to decide what to do. My neighbors at the park don't want to send their little ones to a K-8, and nearly all of them are looking at charters. I hope we could all work together to make West and whatever our new middle school is better, but I know that is a lot of what-ifs for people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the boundaries are not solid in 16th Street Heights--13th and Delafield is solidly in 16th Street Heights but it is the Brightwood Park area that is trickier which is typically north of kennedy west of Georgia and east of 14th street. The 16th Street Heights part of the north area is all the blocks west of 16th street street that have fed in the past (and currently) to Brightwood and Deal ...like the 1400 and 1600 blocks of Montague and Madison etc. All south of Military/Missouri...

My friend on the 1300 blocks of Madison and Colorado consider themselves n Brightwood Park.

I am not sure that this sort of thing matters, but I think most people who think of 16th St Heights consider the boundaries to be Missouri/Military, Georgia, 16th St and Arkansas. (Wikipedia agrees, FWIW, and so do real estate websites, etc.) And in those boundaries, folks are zoned for at least three elementary schools (West, Brightwood, Powell), three MS/ECs (Deal, West, Brightwood), and one HS (Roosevelt). The only reason I raise this at all is that this is a Crestwood thread, and 16th St Heights -- as Jeff mentioned -- is situated a bit differently. I'm trying not to attach any other meaning to this other than finding the facts.

[Anonymous]

Y'all are sounding almost exactly like the Ward 3 parents who felt they were in danger of losing access to Wilson. At the time, I remember someone writing that those parents were "afraid of diversity."

Well, I didn't agree then, and I don't believe that now, but I wonder whether whoever voiced that opinion has a different perspective now.

IMO, the heart of all parental concerns has been, and is, losing access to a scarce commodity in DC: a pre-existing, highly proficient school.

[Anonymous]

I have house on 14th and Montague and it's is NOT zoned for Deal. Public records show 16th St Heights. Enter 1400 Montague on ebis

http://dcatlas.dcgis.dc.gov/schools/

[Anonymous]

All this to say, again, I'm not crying over the tiny numbers of people who are losing boundary rights they aren't using anyway.

I am a 16th st Heights parent who has lived here for fifteen years. We have a rising 8th grader at Deal, and a rising fifth grader at a charter school. Our three year old starts at the charter in the fall. Every single MS age child I know in our neighborhood attends Deal. Kids have switched OUT of HRCS options to go back to Deal. Large groups of kids wait for the bus together all up 16th st every morning. The old timers in our neighborhood also went to Deal and Wilson and sent their kids there also. So there is a long connection to those schools, and the experience of my children and their neighborhood friends will be directly affected by cutting them out of those resources.

Bottom line is that NO ONE should be cut out of their current school and zoned for a lower performing school. Period. It is not ethical. If you feel it would be unethical if it happened to your family, then it is unethical if it happens to your neighbor's also. It is the "everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten" principle!

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the "and zoned for" is where your ethical issues lose me.

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Crestwood family here. God forbid these new school zones, because if that becomes the case we will clearly move and i know other families will too. We came here for Deal, Wilson and even Eaton and Hearst which we are zoned for. We will not send our children to up and coming and less performing schools. Period. This needs to be stopped. Crestwood must maintain its historical rights since it is west of 16th street in its own unique corner of NW DC.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Crestwood family here. God forbid these new school zones, because if that becomes the case we will clearly move and i know other families will too. We came here for Deal, Wilson and even Eaton and Hearst which we are zoned for. We will not send our children to up and coming and less performing schools. Period. This needs to be stopped. Crestwood must maintain its historical rights since it is west of 16th street in its own unique corner of NW DC.

Actually, Crestwood has never been inbounds for Eaton and Hearst. Many families go to those schools OOB, however.

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Anonymous wrote:Crestwood family here. God forbid these new school zones, because if that becomes the case we will clearly move and i know other families will too. We came here for Deal, Wilson and even Eaton and Hearst which we are zoned for. We will not send our children to up and coming and less performing schools. Period. This needs to be stopped. Crestwood must maintain its historical rights since it is west of 16th street in its own unique corner of NW DC.

Actually, Crestwood has never been inbounds for Eaton and Hearst. Many families go to those schools OOB, however.

I sincerely hope that was someone trolling you. If not...

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I agree with this. I'm in 16th St Heights, but the house we bought 2 years ago is in the Deal district, with feeder rights to Wilson. That was a huge part of why we bought this house. We love the neighborhood, and were worried about the schools, but this sealed the deal. Now the lines will be moved, and we too might have to decide what to do. My neighbors at the park don't want to send their little ones to a K-8, and nearly all of them are looking at charters. I hope we could all work together to make West and whatever our new middle school is better, but I know that is a lot of what-ifs for people.

Please. Some of your neighbors at the park do send their little ones to West.
West is doing just fine, and will be even better as K-5. Go by the school some time to visit. You can always volunteer at the parent organization to get involved or directly with the school.