SWS moving to Prospect LC building?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have details on this? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

It's happening per DCPS press release today. Don't know when or what it means for the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

It looks like the current students at Prospect will be moving out and SWS in...very interesting and wonder if they will work in-boundary or not, and if so, when, etc.

[Anonymous]

Moving over the summer for next Fall. Will house Prek 3 - 2nd grade next school year and then add a grade each of the next 3 years until it is a full prek-5 elementary school. DCPS wants to make it pull citywide like Montessori. Many current parents want there to be a proximity preference in the lottery to keep a neighborhood feel. Yet to be decided as well as middle school feeder.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info! As a neighbor, with an inbounds option of Ludlow Taylor, I would be thrilled for this to be boundary driven. We are so in need of a good elementary option, as LT is going nowhere fast.

[Anonymous]

It is absolutely NOT going to be a neighborhood school. It will be a city-wide school, as stated at the parents meeting recently.

[Anonymous]

+1 on hoping that this replaces LT as our in boundary school.

[Anonymous]

Will not have a boundary, but may have proximity preferences in the lottery. Better start lobbying in favor of proximity preferences NOW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is absolutely NOT going to be a neighborhood school. It will be a city-wide school, as stated at the parents meeting recently.

That was the message at the meeting, but there was also a clear indication that it would be examined with the review of boundaries and feeder patterns within the next two years. It's also not clear if proximity preference will apply.

[Anonymous]

The current SWS profile on the DCPS website states that it has 52% in-boundary students. Does that mean that it was a boundary school and will be moving to a lottery only format?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1 on hoping that this replaces LT as our in boundary school.

Good idea, but it's not going to happen. Ludlow Taylor is a neighborhood school for other neighborhoods than its own.

[Anonymous]

^ yes, LT is going nowhere and it does not serve its community. SWS has operated under Cluster/Peabody boundaries, so yes, the Hill in general, would be losing a neighborhood school.

Where should we petition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The current SWS profile on the DCPS website states that it has 52% in-boundary students. Does that mean that it was a boundary school and will be moving to a lottery only format?

Yes. Now has same boundaries as the Capitol Hill Cluster School. But DCPS wants it to be citywide lottery now.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. So close, yet still so far away.

[Anonymous]

Organize and lobby dcps! Did you see how many communiies thought their schools were going to close and then they presented well thought out plans and voila, school saved? Go for it.