New DCPS school on former Georgetown Day site will be a high school

[Anonymous]

So says Mary Cheh:

https://twitter.com/marycheh/status/1504122390321770507

[Anonymous]

It's mentioned in Bowser's budget proposal, which was submitted today to the DC Council. Slide 10:

https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/mayormb/page_content/attachments/FY23%20Budget%20Presentation%20to%20Council%20FINAL.pdf

[Anonymous]

Great news.

[Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1504123151269171205

[Anonymous]

How long to build it and open?

[Anonymous]

What public transit goes to Palisades?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What public transit goes to Palisades?

The D6 bus. And in better times, the D5.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know the timeline for opening?

[Anonymous]

What will the boundary be? Will there be grandfathering to Wilson?

[Anonymous]

What about the GDS site?

[Anonymous]

Pp here I meant the Foxhall site.

[Anonymous]

Great news!

[Anonymous]

It's literally one line in the mayor's budget PowerPoint presentation to the Council, saying Bowser is committing $43 million in this year's budget to the new school. The Council has to approve the budget still, so it's not a done deal. The details -- when this school would open, mainly -- still need to be worked out, but from what some are reporting it seems it will be 1,000 students, split evenly between Hardy kids and kids from a citywide lottery.

I'm going to guess they want the next round of boundary revisions to play out before they get into the details of this new school, because it's going to change the calculus of those revisions in W3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What will the boundary be? Will there be grandfathering to Wilson?

It will be fed by Hardy so its boundaries will be Hardy's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's literally one line in the mayor's budget PowerPoint presentation to the Council, saying Bowser is committing $43 million in this year's budget to the new school. The Council has to approve the budget still, so it's not a done deal. The details -- when this school would open, mainly -- still need to be worked out, but from what some are reporting it seems it will be 1,000 students, split evenly between Hardy kids and kids from a citywide lottery.

I'm going to guess they want the next round of boundary revisions to play out before they get into the details of this new school, because it's going to change the calculus of those revisions in W3.

So what happens when enrollment fluctuates at Hardy? Do they have to add more seats to keep the 50-50 ratio, or do some Hardy kids not get a seat? It doesn't seem well thought out.