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Anonymous
You need to look at a boundary map. Miner borders both Wheatley and JOW's boundaries in places. The fact a street is in between does not mean the zone is non-contiguous. Are you aware that Miner's boundary extends to 13th street? So it is, in fact, on the other side of the Starburst from itself? |
Anonymous
It would me more akin to the at-risk set aside or boundary re-drawing than to a cluster, no? Proximity preference only gets you anything to the extent there are OOB spots available, and it comes after sibling preferences. Plus it doesn't disrupt everyone else who currently attends Maury. |
Anonymous
Think that's here: https://dme.dc.gov/page/sy2021-22-public-school-enrollments-dcps-boundary |
Anonymous
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People are getting confused so to be clear:
The DCPS profiles list an IB percentage. This number is the percent of currently enrolled students who are IB for the school. But people are conflating this with the IB buy-in rate, which is the percent of eligible IB students within the boundary who attend the zone. Generally this is unknowable, at least for the general public. You can figure out what the buy-in rate is for kids attending public schools within the boundary (so you can figure out what percent of kids attending DCPS or public charters in the zone are going to IB schools versus other DCPS or charters) by looking at the data released on attendance patterns in DC public schools. However, even that number does not account for the people IB who choose to homeschool or send their kids to private. There may be somewhere inside DC government where someone compiles this data, since the government does have to make sure that kids are enrolled in school of some kind starting at K, but to my knowledge it is not released. And I doubt it is cross-checked against lottery and attendance patterns that would produce an "in-bound participation rate" that truly accounted for every IB, school-age child. |
Anonymous
Yes, but this one reports Peabody and Watkins together. |
Anonymous
No, you don't seem to understand how proximity preference works. Not everyone in the Miner zone is more than .5 a mile from Browne at all. Browne is only a few blocks from part of the Miner zone. And certainly not everyone is closer to Maury and Payne than Browne. You're also totally wrong about JOW and Wheatley's zones not being contiguous with Miner's. Do you actually live on the Hill? |
Anonymous
The boundary participation rates are in a publicly available dataset (someone just linked it). |
Anonymous
Regardless, no way are the rezoning Miner kids for JOW, Wheatley, or Browne (it simply isn't happening, they will not zone kids to a school that is that far away across major commuting arteries and intersections when they could instead zone them to neighborhood schools), so if you close Miner and rezone it, assume a significant percentage of Miner IB kids would not have Maury as their by-right school. |
Anonymous
Browne is directly next to 2RY. Right by where the SWS swing space was. Right at the end of the Streetcar line. Very accessible to much of the Miner zone. |
Anonymous
Ah, I see it now, turns out they do provide the number of grade-eligible kids living in zone. I don't think that used to be the case but it's great it's now provided. Thanks for the correction. |
Anonymous
They have drawn boundaries to end at H and Benning over here, but all across the city there are tons and tons of school boundaries that cross very busy roads and dangerous intersections. I don't know why you think that's such an obstacle here. |
Anonymous
That makes sense -- I've never looked at previous years', so that may well be the case. |
Anonymous
It's true there is a small amount of Miner's zone that is adjacent to both JOW and Wheatley -- there's a little job in the zone that actually goes north of H up to Florida and touches both JOW and Wheatley zones that way. If Miner were closed and rezoned, that would likely be handed to JOW, not Wheatley, as Wheatley is in Ward 5, is a PK-8 campus (not actually an elementary) and feeds to Dunbar). As a practical matter, this little jog of the Miner zone contains very few actual students as it is largely comprised of commercial buildings along H and Florida, as well as a large senior citizens housing complex. Browne is also in Ward 5, and like Wheatley is a PK-8 campus. Browne also has a whopping 73% at risk students, so the odds of DCPS assigning any of the IB at risk kids at Miner to Browne is very low. Same with Wheatley. If Miner were closed and rezoned, the vast majority of the zone would go to LT, Maury, and Payne. |
Anonymous
| Let Basis take over Miner and run it as an IB elementary. I am dead serious. |
Anonymous
They won't zone Ward 6 residents to Ward 5 schools. You also have to look at feeds. Closing Miner, there would a focus on keeping students within their existing feeds, which would mean shifting most kids to Maury and Payne. I think they'd have no choice but to assign at least part of the west end of the zone to LT because it's simply not possible for Maury and Payne to absorb all those students (I expect Maury would need an expansion to do it, and it would likely mean trailers in the interim). But LT at least feeds to Eastern. Wheatley and Browne both contain middle schools and feed to Dunbar, which is in NW -- it's actually kind of insane that Wheatley and Browne feed there already but at least you have the Ward excuse. With Miner kids it would make no sense at all. |