Enrollment Audit Finally Posted
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Anonymous
It's no tradition, it's part of their contract with DCPS. They can have 10% of the student body be out of DC. They have never reached that percentage all the way. That amounts to maybe two students per department per grade. They've also been audited for the last 5 years by OSSE and are at 100% compliance, which means those 53 are paying tuition. |
Anonymous
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How does it happen that DCPS sends a student to a school in Florida (from the file: Devereux Florida Viera Campus Viera FL)? Isn't there anything closer? I guess I'd be grateful if my child needed the services and DCPS was willing to pay, but that's far! Does the district pay travel expenses?
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Anonymous
When a kid is in crisis, you send them wherever has an opening at that point even if it's far. There is huge demand for places that will handle mental illness and/or serious behavioral needs and accept what DC will pay. Also sometimes the kid has a history of being a perpetrator or victim of violence and needs to be away from certain other kids placed closer to home. |
Anonymous
Those are called non-public placements and they are for kids with very significant special needs, mental illness, suicidality, or other things that nobody would wish on anyone. Yes it's far, but every child is entitled to an education and DCPS has to take what it can find. If there were places available closer to here I'm sure DCPS would be thrilled, but it can be very hard to find a place. |
Anonymous
I like this analysis as a person who worked on the audit. We are looking at some trends base on school, ward, and lea over the years. We also might publish this analysis next year as we always take a year to publish in-house to see the result. |
Anonymous
Thanks for the info! |
Anonymous
I look forward to reading it! Clearly this data spells danger for a lot of schools, especially combined with shorter lottery waitlists across the board and some schools not coming even close to filling up their classes in the initial lottery. |
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The data shows that more kids are staying at BASIS DC for high school.
-8th grade is -5 from previous year but +16 from 2 years ago. -9th grade is +25 from previous year and +7 from 2 years ago Interestingly, the senior class at BASIS this year is only 42 kids. Next year it will probably be around 60 or 61. |
Anonymous
417 Freshmen at Coolidge. Not long ago there was less than that in the entire school. Eastern up to 21 white students. |
Anonymous
Eastern has 21 white students out of 865 (2.4%) Banneker has 28 white students out of 579 (4.8%) J-R has 817 white students out of 2153 (37.9%) Walls has 290 white students out 602 (48.2%) |
Anonymous
| How do new schools like Capital Village and Social Justice survive? They seem dangerously under-enrolled (the former more than the latter) |
Anonymous
They're sort of crunchy alternative schools, so they can more easily adapt. (Which means, basically, lay off staff). They game out a low-enrollment scenario in advance. |
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It does seem like some schools are awfully light in the kids department. But they have the whole summer to recruit, not everything has to fill up on lottery day-- in fact it's a good thing if kids moving here post-lottery have some options. But other times, it does make me wonder if the school will survive. It's so easy to get into a bad spiral of low funding, making cuts, laying off teachers, then parents and teachers smell it and start leaving, and that makes it worse.
It does seem like certain schools are in the danger zone of having to downsize-- Harmony, Hope Tolson, maybe Bethune, Paul, maybe SSMA, Meridian... I'm sure there are more. |
Anonymous
Wow. How is the staff coping? Are they going to go on a hiring spree? |
Anonymous
Rocketship Rise and Eagle Congress Heights. |