New DCPS school on former Georgetown Day site will be a high school

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Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

So you wanna move some white people to Annacostia to hopefully full up all the open school seats? If the city wanted to get rid of high school boundaries they would have done it. Perhaps they did not cause they would have even more empty seats...

if the city wants to desegregate schools it would create a true magnet school centrally located. Dunbar is only at 50% capacity, turn that into a TJ or Boston Latin

How, exactly? Because isn't that what Banneker is already trying to do? DCPS already has eight selective high schools. A ninth isn't going to move the needle.

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Anonymous wrote:Of the portions that were proposed this makes the most sense. Hardy will be the feeder, so any family with a kid going to Hardy was already prepared to get them to the neighborhood.

Not to that part. Hardy is easy with the bus straight down Wisconsin. I already felt screwed when we got moved out of the Deal feed, this I wasn’t expecting. We also live on the farthest northern street of the border for hardy, so are closer to Deal and far closer to Wilson. I also have no interest in subjecting my child, who will likely be in the first class forced to go there, to an untried high school. High school is actually important. Being a guinea pig at that stage is not acceptable.

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Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes.

Who says all OOB kids come from EotR? You’d have to move heaven and earth to cut Janney out of Deal, but families who live IB for Janney will lottery for this school in droves. And that, plus the end of the Hardy-to-Wilson feed, will open up OOB seats at Wilson. Which is right on top of the train, a 30-minute ride from the Anacostia station. It’s a dynamic system.

Wilson is overcrowded by several hundred kids...and getting more so. My guess is that every OOB spot could be filled with kids zoned for Wilson (or allowed to go to Wilson due to feeder patterns) and there would still not be any OOB spots for Wilson.

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We are close to the southern Deal border (IB for Deal/Wilson) and will seriously look at lotterying in to the new school to avoid the overcrowding at Wilson.

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If Hardy is zoned for the new school, it will help relieve a lot of the overcrowding at Wilson (Hardy is the second biggest feeder into Wilson)...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes.

Who says all OOB kids come from EotR? You’d have to move heaven and earth to cut Janney out of Deal, but families who live IB for Janney will lottery for this school in droves. And that, plus the end of the Hardy-to-Wilson feed, will open up OOB seats at Wilson. Which is right on top of the train, a 30-minute ride from the Anacostia station. It’s a dynamic system.

Wilson is overcrowded by several hundred kids...and getting more so. My guess is that every OOB spot could be filled with kids zoned for Wilson (or allowed to go to Wilson due to feeder patterns) and there would still not be any OOB spots for Wilson.

Certainly not many. Capacity at Wilson is 1600 and the current 6th grade at Deal is 450. What this will really do is save the Shepherd feed to Deal-Wilson.

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Hardy is currently at like 175 per grade - so they would already be 700 kids (of course whatever numbers leave for other options).

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How do people think this would change the SES balance at Wilson?

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Anonymous wrote:How do people think this would change the SES balance at Wilson?

One of the things that came out in the Community Working Group was that Hardy is more diverse than Wilson overall, so removing Hardy would make Wilson less diverse. Assuming everything else stays the same.

But there's no winning. Unless Hardy had exactly the same profile as Wilson moving Hardy to another school either makes Wilson less diverse or the new school. It's mathematics.

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Putting the high school in the Hardy building and moving Hardy to the GDS McArthur building would have made so much more sense. The Hardy building is a lot more accessible to the rest of the city.

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Anonymous wrote:How do people think this would change the SES balance at Wilson?

One of the things that came out in the Community Working Group was that Hardy is more diverse than Wilson overall, so removing Hardy would make Wilson less diverse. Assuming everything else stays the same.

But there's no winning. Unless Hardy had exactly the same profile as Wilson moving Hardy to another school either makes Wilson less diverse or the new school. It's mathematics.

According to the DCPS profiles, Hardy and Wilson have extremely similar demographic profiles:

https://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School

https://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Woodrow+Wilson+High+School

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Anonymous wrote:Putting the high school in the Hardy building and moving Hardy to the GDS McArthur building would have made so much more sense. The Hardy building is a lot more accessible to the rest of the city.

Agreed. The Georgetown ANC was adamant that Hardy remain a middle school. Apparently Ellington was also opposed to a high school nearby.

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Anonymous wrote:Putting the high school in the Hardy building and moving Hardy to the GDS McArthur building would have made so much more sense. The Hardy building is a lot more accessible to the rest of the city.

Agreed. The Georgetown ANC was adamant that Hardy remain a middle school. Apparently Ellington was also opposed to a high school nearby.

If only they could move Ellington...

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I understand why Georgetown wants Hardy to stay a middle school but why wouldn’t duke ellingron want a nearby high school?

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Hopefully they will expand the languages program at the high school - Hardy has an excellent Italian program. They could also be a hub for language immersion charters like Sela and Bethune which do not feed into DCI, maybe expand Hardy's language footprint and make the new high school a world languages program.