Enrollment Audit Finally Posted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Langley Elementary had 116(!) likely residency cheats... More than 1/3rd of its student body. That is insane and that principal will almost certainly be let go at the end of the year no matter whether they are otherwise liked.

Is the admin at Langley that bad? They also have the issue with the teacher accused of assaulting the student.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-elementary-school-teacher-accused-of-assaulting-student/3276252/?amp=1

Doesn't Langley also have a sizable population from the Joint Base? It can be hard for military connected kids to get all their residency stuff correct. With that said... 16 is still high.

I'm not sure. They do have a bunch of kids in non-public placements and those can be more complicated with the paperwork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Langley Elementary had 116(!) likely residency cheats... More than 1/3rd of its student body. That is insane and that principal will almost certainly be let go at the end of the year no matter whether they are otherwise liked.

Is the admin at Langley that bad? They also have the issue with the teacher accused of assaulting the student.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-elementary-school-teacher-accused-of-assaulting-student/3276252/?amp=1

It's not that bad, that residency number is a typo. Nobody has ever had that many residency cheats. You'd be hard-pressed to find 116 people willing to sneak into Langley if you paid them.

The assaulting student thing was investigated by DCPS and cleared.

Not at Langley but it’s rather surprising what DCPS will clear after an investigation.

[Anonymous]

Anyway, more interestingly, is it true there's a massive increase at the high school level?

[Anonymous]

I'm astounded that SSMA is growing enrollment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyway, more interestingly, is it true there's a massive increase at the high school level?

I wonder if this is an artifact of the pandemic. It seems plausible that more kids left school early during the pandemic, so enrollments were low in 2021-22, and enrollments are now returning to more normal levels.

[Anonymous]

I am thinking like PP some of this is pandemic and housing costs - I would like to see for example what Hispanic student enrollment is like in DC. I think a lot of people living precariously during the pandemic had to move.

[Anonymous]

It's also interesting how there aren't middle school increases as noticeable as the high school increases.

[Anonymous]

Why are application high schools with Wait Lists allowing non-DC students to enroll? Walls, Banneker

...and (Drum Roll Please) 53 students from Ellington!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are application high schools with Wait Lists allowing non-DC students to enroll? Walls, Banneker

...and (Drum Roll Please) 53 students from Ellington!

That is just shy of 10% of the student body (578 students enrolled)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are application high schools with Wait Lists allowing non-DC students to enroll? Walls, Banneker

...and (Drum Roll Please) 53 students from Ellington!

I was wondering the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are application high schools with Wait Lists allowing non-DC students to enroll? Walls, Banneker

...and (Drum Roll Please) 53 students from Ellington!

I was wondering the same thing.

Not only do non-DC residents not need to pay traffic tickets, they can pay tuition at a highly sought after school that claims not to have enough space for residents. I can understand the story of the oboe player that DC does not have and therefore they must open the doors and find it outside of the city - but 50 students. Please explain to me WHY that needs to occur?

[Anonymous]

At some high schools if a student moves before senior year they give them an exception and let them finish their HS career at the DCPS school paying tuition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are application high schools with Wait Lists allowing non-DC students to enroll? Walls, Banneker

...and (Drum Roll Please) 53 students from Ellington!

I was wondering the same thing.

Ellington is its own thing. But I’m seeing 2-3 tuition paying students each at Banneker, Walls, CHEC, and Eastern. DCPS policy allows a student to move out of state and pay tuition for the terminal year of any school. I’d assume that’s what’s going on at those schools: students who were admitted as DC resident 9th graders, moved out of state after junior year, and are paying tuition for senior year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are application high schools with Wait Lists allowing non-DC students to enroll? Walls, Banneker

...and (Drum Roll Please) 53 students from Ellington!

I was wondering the same thing.

Not only do non-DC residents not need to pay traffic tickets, they can pay tuition at a highly sought after school that claims not to have enough space for residents. I can understand the story of the oboe player that DC does not have and therefore they must open the doors and find it outside of the city - but 50 students. Please explain to me WHY that needs to occur?

The Ellington boosters will be along momentarily to tell you it's tradition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are application high schools with Wait Lists allowing non-DC students to enroll? Walls, Banneker

...and (Drum Roll Please) 53 students from Ellington!

I was wondering the same thing.

Ellington is its own thing. But I’m seeing 2-3 tuition paying students each at Banneker, Walls, CHEC, and Eastern. DCPS policy allows a student to move out of state and pay tuition for the terminal year of any school. I’d assume that’s what’s going on at those schools: students who were admitted as DC resident 9th graders, moved out of state after junior year, and are paying tuition for senior year.

Do they have to pay like they have to pay tickets, meaning not at all?