DCI expansion and facility space

[Anonymous]

Wait, so future middle school classes will actually be smaller than the current class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, so future middle school classes will actually be smaller than the current class?

That’s what the projected back before they started. Not clear what they based it on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it acceptable to laugh at all the parents who went with language based HRCS DCI Feeders “secure a path through high school?”

Eastern awaits!

Anyone with kids in 1st and above has a fairly secure spot.

And at some schools, even parents of preschoolers have secure spots.

I'd say, if you are laughing at others education choices because you wouldn't have made the same choices yourself, there are probably few in your life that find you acceptable in a more general sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCI admin recently said at a PCSB parent advisory meeting that replication (charter-speak for expansion) is not on the table for the foreseeable future. They said they still need to perfect their model.

The building they have will not accommodate more students (keep in mind they do not yet have any seniors in the building, and the current HS classes are not as large as the current MS classes (no MV alums are in high school yet).

If they ever decided to replicate they would need an additional building. And no, there are no other surplus buildings available on the old Walter Reed campus.

Thank you PP. I guess I'm curious if there's room to expand within the building at all (like with an addition or renovating) rather than replicating like making a whole separate school. But it sounds like they're going to max out their stated enrollment matrix and that's that, for now? (1450 total, starting with 255 6th graders and attrition-ing down to 168 seniors)

Here is the enrollment matrix if anyone is curious. https://www.dcpcsb.org/sites/default/files/report/DCI-Charter%20Amendment%20Application-New%20Location%20%288.1.16%29.pdf

Even expanding by just 30 students per grade would add 270 students through 12th. I also don’t think the attrition will happen so it will be crowded in their current space.

The Walter Reed complex is literally all spoken for and parceled out although the entire redevelopment is to supposed to be completed in about 17-18 years. The area behind the school will remain a road, and the area to the east is slated to become community space — latest plan is for an outdoor pool (planning money is in the current city budget proposal), a dog park and space for an arts nonprofit. The corner of Aspen and Georgia will be a new lower-income senior housing facility that will be finished soon (they are taking lease applications).

Sorry kids - you can’t go to high school because seniors need inexpensive housing! And also dog parks and a useless arts nonprofit.

ugh if you're even remotely serious with this, you're gross. If you're not, your jokes fall really flat.

So many of our neighbors are being forced out of the city due to rising costs. Happy to have protected housing options available for low income seniors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it acceptable to laugh at all the parents who went with language based HRCS DCI Feeders “secure a path through high school?”

Eastern awaits!

Anyone who enrolled in the DCI feeders more than a year ago has a secure path through high school. All YY kids have a secure path for the foreseeable future. I think YY has a high number of seats (100 per year) and YY expansion plans are still in their infancy.

Frankly, I think most DCI feeder kids will get to go to DCI if they want to, regardless of expansion. There are plenty of families that will peel off for Latin, BASIS, privates, or the suburbs for middle school, no matter how great DCI becomes. We are at a DCI feeder and are zoned for Hardy-Wilson and have no plans to send our kids to DCI , Hardy or Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI admin recently said at a PCSB parent advisory meeting that replication (charter-speak for expansion) is not on the table for the foreseeable future. They said they still need to perfect their model.

The building they have will not accommodate more students (keep in mind they do not yet have any seniors in the building, and the current HS classes are not as large as the current MS classes (no MV alums are in high school yet).

If they ever decided to replicate they would need an additional building. And no, there are no other surplus buildings available on the old Walter Reed campus.

Thank you PP. I guess I'm curious if there's room to expand within the building at all (like with an addition or renovating) rather than replicating like making a whole separate school. But it sounds like they're going to max out their stated enrollment matrix and that's that, for now? (1450 total, starting with 255 6th graders and attrition-ing down to 168 seniors)

Here is the enrollment matrix if anyone is curious. https://www.dcpcsb.org/sites/default/files/report/DCI-Charter%20Amendment%20Application-New%20Location%20%288.1.16%29.pdf

Even expanding by just 30 students per grade would add 270 students through 12th. I also don’t think the attrition will happen so it will be crowded in their current space.

The Walter Reed complex is literally all spoken for and parceled out although the entire redevelopment is to supposed to be completed in about 17-18 years. The area behind the school will remain a road, and the area to the east is slated to become community space — latest plan is for an outdoor pool (planning money is in the current city budget proposal), a dog park and space for an arts nonprofit. The corner of Aspen and Georgia will be a new lower-income senior housing facility that will be finished soon (they are taking lease applications).

Sorry kids - you can’t go to high school because seniors need inexpensive housing! And also dog parks and a useless arts nonprofit.

ugh if you're even remotely serious with this, you're gross. If you're not, your jokes fall really flat.

So many of our neighbors are being forced out of the city due to rising costs. Happy to have protected housing options available for low income seniors.

I’m more concerned about children than seniors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Walter Reed facility belongs to the entire community —- and stakeholders have been working for YEARS with the developer and the city to determine what will happen there.

The point re the dog park etc is to show that plans are far along — and that the area adjacent to the school (for the addition OP was imagining) is spoken for.

Other portions of the complex will be a research facility for Children’s Hospital, the State Department, and a grocery store, and other housing. The pool is being built as part of the city’s commitment to an outdoor option in each ward, and the dog park was a request from Takoma and Shepherd Park neighbors.

Parents of children do not get first dibs on everything in the city. Delano Hall was expanded by DCI and was one of the first uses approved.

Parents of children do not get first dibs- ever- in DC. Meanwhile our children will have a significantly worse life than their grandparents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Walter Reed facility belongs to the entire community —- and stakeholders have been working for YEARS with the developer and the city to determine what will happen there.

The point re the dog park etc is to show that plans are far along — and that the area adjacent to the school (for the addition OP was imagining) is spoken for.

Other portions of the complex will be a research facility for Children’s Hospital, the State Department, and a grocery store, and other housing. The pool is being built as part of the city’s commitment to an outdoor option in each ward, and the dog park was a request from Takoma and Shepherd Park neighbors.

Parents of children do not get first dibs on everything in the city. Delano Hall was expanded by DCI and was one of the first uses approved.

Parents of children do not get first dibs- ever- in DC. Meanwhile our children will have a significantly worse life than their grandparents.

Not due to building a senior housing complex. Global warming and income inequality are the major problems facing our children, and our generation is refusing to act on either problem.

[Anonymous]

The Walter Reed neighbors (I am one of them), are by and large fine with DCI being in the Delano Hall building, despite the significant increase in traffic and so forth related to a school (except for the historic preservationists, who did not approve of the addition for the gym).

However, a second or expanded DCI? Not so much.

If DCI ever decides to replicate, it should put the new campus someplace else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Global warming and income inequality are the major problems facing our children, and our generation is refusing to act on either problem.

This is right- everything else will pale in comparison to these in about 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Walter Reed facility belongs to the entire community —- and stakeholders have been working for YEARS with the developer and the city to determine what will happen there.

The point re the dog park etc is to show that plans are far along — and that the area adjacent to the school (for the addition OP was imagining) is spoken for.

Other portions of the complex will be a research facility for Children’s Hospital, the State Department, and a grocery store, and other housing. The pool is being built as part of the city’s commitment to an outdoor option in each ward, and the dog park was a request from Takoma and Shepherd Park neighbors.

Parents of children do not get first dibs on everything in the city. Delano Hall was expanded by DCI and was one of the first uses approved.

Parents of children do not get first dibs- ever- in DC. Meanwhile our children will have a significantly worse life than their grandparents.

Not due to building a senior housing complex. Global warming and income inequality are the major problems facing our children, and our generation is refusing to act on either problem.

And education has nothing to do with income inequality? Please give me a break.

[Anonymous]

Educational achievement has no effect on the gaping wealth gap in this country.

Earning a BA will help ensure your income is higher than someone who didn’t earn one. But the consolidation of wealth among the top 1-2% is getting wider even as more people earn degrees.

More to the point, not selling DCI another building on the former Walter Reed complex (which they do not want) does not mean they can’t build one anywhere.

[Anonymous]

I see in the charter board meeting materials for the April 22 meeting DCI going up to 2156 students in SY 2024-2025. Confused as to where they would be located.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see in the charter board meeting materials for the April 22 meeting DCI going up to 2156 students in SY 2024-2025. Confused as to where they would be located.

Link?

FWIW charters almost always secure an enrollment ceiling increase before identifying a location, in part because they need to project more students to secure a new facility loan. Usually, they will say we hope to locate in XYZ area because it is underserved, etc.

[Anonymous]

https://www.livebinders.com/b/2548348

It is in the agenda as an Enrollment Ceiling Clean Up. Not sure what that means.