School Boundary Revisions

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know when/if they are going to do this?

[Anonymous]

Nobody knows. They do it when they decide to, and when they can stand the intense political pressure.

Small revisions are made more often, e.g. changes to feeder patterns or creation of new IB schools.

[Anonymous]

City guidelines established after the previous boundary review process in 2014 call for the next review process to begin in 2022. I don't think that's a strict rule, though, and Bowser certainly will want nothing to do with it during an election year.

When it comes to school boundaries, no one kicks the can down the road better than DCPS (even though doing so makes things exponentially worse at the overcrowded schools). Expecting anything more from DCPS is a fool's errand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:City guidelines established after the previous boundary review process in 2014 call for the next review process to begin in 2022. I don't think that's a strict rule, though, and Bowser certainly will want nothing to do with it during an election year.

When it comes to school boundaries, no one kicks the can down the road better than DCPS (even though doing so makes things exponentially worse at the overcrowded schools). Expecting anything more from DCPS is a fool's errand.

All true. But they can and will do major reboundarying when they decide they want to. All of these renovations, feeder pattern changes, new middle schools rather than ECs, etc., are important for various reasons, but are often capacity expansions that allow them to avoid needing to reboundary.

If you've got a little kid and are wanting to live in a specific boundary, do it with your eyes open. It's very, very possible that changes will happen during your child's educational career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:City guidelines established after the previous boundary review process in 2014 call for the next review process to begin in 2022. I don't think that's a strict rule, though, and Bowser certainly will want nothing to do with it during an election year.

When it comes to school boundaries, no one kicks the can down the road better than DCPS (even though doing so makes things exponentially worse at the overcrowded schools). Expecting anything more from DCPS is a fool's errand.

All true. But they can and will do major reboundarying when they decide they want to. All of these renovations, feeder pattern changes, new middle schools rather than ECs, etc., are important for various reasons, but are often capacity expansions that allow them to avoid needing to reboundary.

If you've got a little kid and are wanting to live in a specific boundary, do it with your eyes open. It's very, very possible that changes will happen during your child's educational career.

Sometimes. But if your kid already has started at one school they're almost always grandfathered in so they can remain at the same school and in the same feeder pattern if they so choose.

If DCPS could avoid having to do boundary revisions in perpetuity, it certainly would because the process inevitably angers many people. And DCPS could indeed avoid doing anything about boundaries for decades, because nearly every school was under-capacity. But that isn't the case now, with many schools dangerously overcrowded and DC leaders showing no political will to do anything about it.

[Anonymous]

OP can review these documents to see what happened in the last big reboundarying.

https://dcps.dc.gov/page/school-boundaries-final-implementation-plan

Yes, there tends to be some grandfathering. But if OP is, say, the parent of a baby and looking to buy into the Wilson boundary, it's possible her child might not get a seat in PK4 and thus not actually start school until 5 years from now. And kids not actually attending school yet would be unlikely to be grandfathered.

[Anonymous]

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/Boundary%20and%20Feeder%20Pattern%20Changes%20FAQ.pdf

Here is the grandfathering FAQ. Basically, students did not have to leave their IB DCPS school if they were already attending it. BUT, students who were not attending their IB school for whatever reason (too young, going to a charter, etc.) did not get to keep the right to attend it. And current 5th and 8th graders kept their feeder pattern rights but those graduating in later years did not, unless they had a sibling in their prior feeder pattern school. So I think it's very reasonable to be concerned about this if you're a baby parent, aspiring parent, or care about the middle school and high school you're getting. Which, as we all know, drives a lot of this stuff.

[Anonymous]

I don't think they will announce a decision until the new Foxhall Elementary is within a year of completion. That school is going to cannibalize new students from the Stoddart, Mann, and Key feeder patterns. I think that school is scheduled to open in 2024, so expect an announcement sometime in summer of 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think they will announce a decision until the new Foxhall Elementary is within a year of completion. That school is going to cannibalize new students from the Stoddart, Mann, and Key feeder patterns. I think that school is scheduled to open in 2024, so expect an announcement sometime in summer of 2023.

I believe the last boundary revision process took around a year to complete so that would make sense: Start the conversation in 2022 with the assumed completion of the new Upper NW schools baked into the discussion, and go from there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think they will announce a decision until the new Foxhall Elementary is within a year of completion. That school is going to cannibalize new students from the Stoddart, Mann, and Key feeder patterns. I think that school is scheduled to open in 2024, so expect an announcement sometime in summer of 2023.

I believe the last boundary revision process took around a year to complete so that would make sense: Start the conversation in 2022 with the assumed completion of the new Upper NW schools baked into the discussion, and go from there.

Yes by then we will have a new mayor. Mayor White is my guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think they will announce a decision until the new Foxhall Elementary is within a year of completion. That school is going to cannibalize new students from the Stoddart, Mann, and Key feeder patterns. I think that school is scheduled to open in 2024, so expect an announcement sometime in summer of 2023.

I believe the last boundary revision process took around a year to complete so that would make sense: Start the conversation in 2022 with the assumed completion of the new Upper NW schools baked into the discussion, and go from there.

that's the window that they have. They can't push it longer because whoever is mayor then won't want voters to have fresh memories in 2026

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think they will announce a decision until the new Foxhall Elementary is within a year of completion. That school is going to cannibalize new students from the Stoddart, Mann, and Key feeder patterns. I think that school is scheduled to open in 2024, so expect an announcement sometime in summer of 2023.

I believe the last boundary revision process took around a year to complete so that would make sense: Start the conversation in 2022 with the assumed completion of the new Upper NW schools baked into the discussion, and go from there.

Yes by then we will have a new mayor. Mayor White is my guess.

She wins reelection, unless Racine throws his hat in the ring. He's got a powerful base of big money, similar to Anthony Williams back in the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think they will announce a decision until the new Foxhall Elementary is within a year of completion. That school is going to cannibalize new students from the Stoddart, Mann, and Key feeder patterns. I think that school is scheduled to open in 2024, so expect an announcement sometime in summer of 2023.

I believe the last boundary revision process took around a year to complete so that would make sense: Start the conversation in 2022 with the assumed completion of the new Upper NW schools baked into the discussion, and go from there.

Yes by then we will have a new mayor. Mayor White is my guess.

She wins reelection, unless Racine throws his hat in the ring. He's got a powerful base of big money, similar to Anthony Williams back in the day.

Racine will not run. I don’t think she will win so easily. I don’t even know if she will run for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think they will announce a decision until the new Foxhall Elementary is within a year of completion. That school is going to cannibalize new students from the Stoddart, Mann, and Key feeder patterns. I think that school is scheduled to open in 2024, so expect an announcement sometime in summer of 2023.

I believe the last boundary revision process took around a year to complete so that would make sense: Start the conversation in 2022 with the assumed completion of the new Upper NW schools baked into the discussion, and go from there.

Yes by then we will have a new mayor. Mayor White is my guess.

Please Lord - NO!!! Robert White would be a disaster for students. He's too beholden to his WTU endorser.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think they will announce a decision until the new Foxhall Elementary is within a year of completion. That school is going to cannibalize new students from the Stoddart, Mann, and Key feeder patterns. I think that school is scheduled to open in 2024, so expect an announcement sometime in summer of 2023.

I believe the last boundary revision process took around a year to complete so that would make sense: Start the conversation in 2022 with the assumed completion of the new Upper NW schools baked into the discussion, and go from there.

Yes by then we will have a new mayor. Mayor White is my guess.

She wins reelection, unless Racine throws his hat in the ring. He's got a powerful base of big money, similar to Anthony Williams back in the day.

Racine has higher goals than DC mayor. His name was mentioned as a possible US attorney general when Biden was picking out his cabinet.

The slate of possible primary challengers to Bowser is so weak that I'm afraid she will cruise to reelection if she decides to run again, despite her complete and utter mediocrity. If she doesn't run again for whatever reason, then the race will be interesting.