Deal Expansion

[Anonymous]

The paper today had a story that the Reno School, which is next door to Deal, is going to be renovated and connected to Deal. This will add 12 classrooms, which I figure increases the capacity by 300 students.

[Anonymous]

Deal is about 120 over capacity now, so it's needed

[Anonymous]

By the time the renovation is done it will probably be over capacity again anyway. All you have to do is look at the increasing enrollments of the feeder schools to see it.

[Anonymous]

Deal wouldn't be overcrowded if DCPS did away with the feeder-school-of-right policy for OOB kids. I hope day is coming.

[Anonymous]

I think the Reno school classrooms are going to be for specials, not to fit in additional students.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I think the Reno school classrooms are going to be for specials, not to fit in additional students.

Principal Kim said it would be for eighth graders, who are today's sixth graders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deal wouldn't be overcrowded if DCPS did away with the feeder-school-of-right policy for OOB kids. I hope day is coming.

I don't know that this is strictly an OOB issue. I mean in two years, how many 5th grade OOB kids will be enrolled in Lafayette or Janney for example? I think those two schools makeup a big part of Deal's population and both of those schools are not getting smaller. It seems to me that the majority of Deal's slots will be occupied by in-bounds families.

[Anonymous]

I agree that this is not really an OOB issue. Unless we have a huge economic turnaround or Ward 3 schools get very bad I am guessing that in 5 years the JKLMM schools will have a very tiny OOB population and Deal will still be overcrowded. I know that some people disagree (name rhymes with "reel") but I think that Ward 3 needs another middle school (public or public charter). Deal is already too big, expanding it is not the right way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that this is not really an OOB issue. Unless we have a huge economic turnaround or Ward 3 schools get very bad I am guessing that in 5 years the JKLMM schools will have a very tiny OOB population and Deal will still be overcrowded. I know that some people disagree (name rhymes with "reel") but I think that Ward 3 needs another middle school (public or public charter). Deal is already too big, expanding it is not the right way to go.

The nam is Hardy!

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deal wouldn't be overcrowded if DCPS did away with the feeder-school-of-right policy for OOB kids. I hope day is coming.

And it would lose any and all minimal diversity that Deal has

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that this is not really an OOB issue. Unless we have a huge economic turnaround or Ward 3 schools get very bad I am guessing that in 5 years the JKLMM schools will have a very tiny OOB population and Deal will still be overcrowded. I know that some people disagree (name rhymes with "reel") but I think that Ward 3 needs another middle school (public or public charter). Deal is already too big, expanding it is not the right way to go.

The nam is Hardy!

Is Hardy in Ward 3?

[Anonymous]

Hardy is already full of students that are happy to be there. They don't like their alternatives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that this is not really an OOB issue. Unless we have a huge economic turnaround or Ward 3 schools get very bad I am guessing that in 5 years the JKLMM schools will have a very tiny OOB population and Deal will still be overcrowded. I know that some people disagree (name rhymes with "reel") but I think that Ward 3 needs another middle school (public or public charter). Deal is already too big, expanding it is not the right way to go.

Except it's not JKLMM -- K and M (Key and Mann) don't feed Deal. This is bad news for the Ward 3 schools that don't feed Deal -- Key, Mann, Stoddert and Eaton. They would be the big beneficiaries of a new middle school, and this means that probably isn't going to happen. In the short term it will probably make it easier to get into Deal OOB, which will sap any efforts to make Hardy a neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that this is not really an OOB issue. Unless we have a huge economic turnaround or Ward 3 schools get very bad I am guessing that in 5 years the JKLMM schools will have a very tiny OOB population and Deal will still be overcrowded. I know that some people disagree (name rhymes with "reel") but I think that Ward 3 needs another middle school (public or public charter). Deal is already too big, expanding it is not the right way to go.

Except it's not JKLMM -- K and M (Key and Mann) don't feed Deal. This is bad news for the Ward 3 schools that don't feed Deal -- Key, Mann, Stoddert and Eaton. They would be the big beneficiaries of a new middle school, and this means that probably isn't going to happen. In the short term it will probably make it easier to get into Deal OOB, which will sap any efforts to make Hardy a neighborhood school.

Sorry, my bad, I did not know that.