Percent of students who live in boundary....

[Anonymous]

I've been searching online for the spreadsheet that shows the percentage of students that live in-bounds to my child's school (and the percentage from different wards). I can't find it. Does anyone have the name of the file or a link? Thanks for sharing!

[Anonymous]

This gives you the boundary percentage: https://profiles.dcps.dc.gov

[Anonymous]

https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/page_content/attachments/SY2122_Public%20School%20Enrollments%20per%20DCPS%20Boundary_0.xlsx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/page_content/attachments/SY2122_Public%20School%20Enrollments%20per%20DCPS%20Boundary_0.xlsx

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Please note the difference between:

Percent In-boundary (%): Percent of the school enrollment that is living in-boundary (the numerator is the number of in-boundary students enrolled at the school and the denominator is the number of students enrolled at the school).

And

Boundary Participation Rate (%): Percent of public school students living in each school’s boundary who attend the school (the numerator is the number of in-boundary students enrolled at the school and the denominator is all grade-specific public school students living in the boundary).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/page_content/attachments/SY2122_Public%20School%20Enrollments%20per%20DCPS%20Boundary_0.xlsx

The data also tell you where the kids inbound for each school go to school, if not attending their IB.

[Anonymous]

This is interesting. While Hyde-Addison is only 30% IB, 75% of this IB who can go to the school do.

[Anonymous]

Interesting site. 436 students who are in bounds for Eastern go to SWW, Latin, McKinley, Banneker, or Basis (not to mention students going to private schools or other high performing public schools). DCPS could get a pretty high performing cohort to go to Eastern if they were interested in supporting in-bound families and providing a good education for them. So far they haven't been, so you only have 15.5% of in-bound public school students attending, which is pretty shameful.

Jackson-Reed is also interesting. It would be at capacity if there were only 520 out of boundary students, but for some reason the city is letting 742 out of boundary students attend, and so kids end up having classes in utility closets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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Please note the difference between:

Percent In-boundary (%): Percent of the school enrollment that is living in-boundary (the numerator is the number of in-boundary students enrolled at the school and the denominator is the number of students enrolled at the school).

And

Boundary Participation Rate (%): Percent of public school students living in each school’s boundary who attend the school (the numerator is the number of in-boundary students enrolled at the school and the denominator is all grade-specific public school students living in the boundary).

Note also that what is not made available is the capture rate, the percentage of all kids living in-boundary who choose to go public rather than private. From what I can gather the city-wide capture rate is about 90%, in Ward 3 it's about 50%. The only other places it's significant are Takoma and Capitol Hill.

[Anonymous]

It's interesting to see the boundary participation of the high schools. Wilson is the only one were the majority of people in the DCPS system go to the in-bound school (67.5%). The rest range from 21.3% in bound participation to 7.4% in bound participation.

It's funny to see how the Brookings article ("We all want what's best for our kids") about DCUM claimed "When privileged parents choose, they tend to choose segregation" because it left "many schools wholly unconsidered." But the numbers show that the vast majority of people across the board, even the vast majority of the in-bound families at these schools, aren't interested in attending. I'd like to imagine that t think tank should spend more time looking into that, rather than ignoring the numbers and going after online parent forums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting site. 436 students who are in bounds for Eastern go to SWW, Latin, McKinley, Banneker, or Basis (not to mention students going to private schools or other high performing public schools). DCPS could get a pretty high performing cohort to go to Eastern if they were interested in supporting in-bound families and providing a good education for them. So far they haven't been, so you only have 15.5% of in-bound public school students attending, which is pretty shameful.

Jackson-Reed is also interesting. It would be at capacity if there were only 520 out of boundary students, but for some reason the city is letting 742 out of boundary students attend, and so kids end up having classes in utility closets.

They need to solve the middle school problem to fix Eastern. What do the numbers look like at SH, EH and Jefferson?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This gives you the boundary percentage: https://profiles.dcps.dc.gov

Looking at the latest data, it suggests that almost 900 students were out of boundary. (45 percent of 1994).

[Anonymous]

re HA. some schools are really large compared to the boundary size and number of students living in it. some are the opposite — school IB% is high in comparison to the % IB attending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting to see the boundary participation of the high schools. Wilson is the only one were the majority of people in the DCPS system go to the in-bound school (67.5%). The rest range from 21.3% in bound participation to 7.4% in bound participation.

It's funny to see how the Brookings article ("We all want what's best for our kids") about DCUM claimed "When privileged parents choose, they tend to choose segregation" because it left "many schools wholly unconsidered." But the numbers show that the vast majority of people across the board, even the vast majority of the in-bound families at these schools, aren't interested in attending. I'd like to imagine that t think tank should spend more time looking into that, rather than ignoring the numbers and going after online parent forums.

Private school is the escape valve for JR catchment families, so that number is artificially high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting site. 436 students who are in bounds for Eastern go to SWW, Latin, McKinley, Banneker, or Basis (not to mention students going to private schools or other high performing public schools). DCPS could get a pretty high performing cohort to go to Eastern if they were interested in supporting in-bound families and providing a good education for them. So far they haven't been, so you only have 15.5% of in-bound public school students attending, which is pretty shameful.

Jackson-Reed is also interesting. It would be at capacity if there were only 520 out of boundary students, but for some reason the city is letting 742 out of boundary students attend, and so kids end up having classes in utility closets.

They need to solve the middle school problem to fix Eastern. What do the numbers look like at SH, EH and Jefferson?

Chicken-egg problem. I'm IB for Eastern. SH was a fallback only (Latin and BASIS were 1/2) precisely because Eastern was an absolute no-go. So my high performing kid isn't at SH because of Eastern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting site. 436 students who are in bounds for Eastern go to SWW, Latin, McKinley, Banneker, or Basis (not to mention students going to private schools or other high performing public schools). DCPS could get a pretty high performing cohort to go to Eastern if they were interested in supporting in-bound families and providing a good education for them. So far they haven't been, so you only have 15.5% of in-bound public school students attending, which is pretty shameful.

Jackson-Reed is also interesting. It would be at capacity if there were only 520 out of boundary students, but for some reason the city is letting 742 out of boundary students attend, and so kids end up having classes in utility closets.

They need to solve the middle school problem to fix Eastern. What do the numbers look like at SH, EH and Jefferson?

Chicken-egg problem. I'm IB for Eastern. SH was a fallback only (Latin and BASIS were 1/2) precisely because Eastern was an absolute no-go. So my high performing kid isn't at SH because of Eastern.

I agree it’s chicken and egg, although I think there are ways to approach these decisions and invest in the middles that will eventually support Eastern, even if that progress isn’t as fast as we’d like to see. Can I ask where you sent your kid to MS (it is a little unclear if you got in to Latin or BASIS)? And if they’re high-achieving, what deterred you from seeing SWW/Banneker/McKinley Tech as a plan for high school if you had gone to SH?