JKLMM Parents: Are You Planning to Send Your Kids To Wilson?
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Anonymous
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I am always amazed by these posts. Whitman is bigger than Wilson. I just don't see the Bethesda parents wringing their hands over this. You don't know what size the class will be in 2020. You have no idea how the feeder and boundary changes will affect things over the next 4 years.
Calm down. Sit back and reevaluate in a few years. |
Anonymous
| Really wish DCPS would take their hands off Wilson and allow it to become a neighborhood school. It would quickly become one of the top high schools in the country. Of course, DCPS would actually have to come up real solutions to educating kids in the rest of the city. A solution which has escaped the for decades, no matter how many hundreds of millions they spend. |
Anonymous
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apples/oranges.
Whitman class size around 450-525 (around 1900 total student - has been that way since the 80s). 95%+ go to college Wilson current overall size 1788 (expected to grow significant). 75% graduate high school. http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04427.pdf http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Woodrow+Wilson+High+School |
Anonymous
Does the Whitman building hold 200 fewer student than are enrolled? |
Anonymous
| Yes, freshman there this year and my 5th grader will also attend. So far, so good. |
Anonymous
What do you mean? Wilson is a neighborhood school that is filled with kids that attended neighborhood middle schools. The only big change to this in recent years is that DCPS has shrunk the "Wilson neighborhood," carving out the southern and western school boundaries so they feed into different high schools. |
Anonymous
I am guessing the PP means end feeder rights. |
Anonymous
| PP is probably referring to the awkwardness of having a school overenrolled by 200 or so students when only 57% of the student body lives in the school boundary. |
Anonymous
Exactly. While at the same time other recently renovated high schools elsewhere in the city are only half full. So frustrating. |
Anonymous
| They have to end feeder rights, it makes no sense. |
Anonymous
NP here. When you see a neighborhood elementary school, recently renovated (twice!) having classes of 33 kids, the local MS school, also recently renovated, almost doubling in size in a few years, you get worried even if your kids are in elementary school, like mine. |
Anonymous
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IB for Janney -
Nope We are praying for the Latin Lottery. |
Anonymous
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My gut tells me the market will take care of this. Parents will decide to go private, or move, or decide to stay at Latin/Basis if they are not think Wilson is overcrowded. The more overcrowded Wilson gets, the more this market correction will kick in.
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Anonymous
| So, it will just stay overcrowded. Because the current "market correction" leaves the school overcrowded. |
Anonymous
| Yes. 4th and 2nd now. Only reason we wouldn't is if Walls seemed like a better fit for one/both (and they got in). |