Why Does Van Ness Elementary School Not Have a Boundary

[Anonymous]

Is Van Ness going to have a specialty focus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Well, Amidon has a gigantic OOB student population...

That's just not true. According to http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/amidon-bowen+elementary+school Amidon is 85% in-bounds. That's far more than--to pick a few schools from Ward 6--Brent, Maury, Tyler, or Watkins.

[Anonymous]

sorry, 82% in-bounds. the point still stands.

[Anonymous]

I don't want to hijack this thread into an Amidon-Bowen vs. Bremt discussion, but you need to think more critically and examine additional underlying data. According to the DME, 185 of the 238 students IB for Brent actually attend Brent, which is a 78 percent IB participation rate, whereas only 228 of the 599 students IB for the former Bowen attendance zone attend A-B, which is a 38 percent IB participation rate, and only 19 of the 100 students IB for the former Amidon attendance zone attend A-B, which is a 19 percent IB participation rate. In other words, the attendance rate for students IB for A-B is slightly higher than 35 percent, or less than half of that of Brent. in addition, 7 students IB for Brent were attending Basis for 5th Grade. Of the OOB students who attend Brent, the vast majority of whom are down from surrounding Hill neighborhoods, a total of 9 are IB for Bowen.

http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Appendix%20B_Boundary%20Participation%20Data%20Tables_DRAFT_Policy%20Brief_3_0.pdf

[Anonymous]

There's a difference between the percentage of kids in a neighborhood who go to their in bound school, which is low ar amidon, vs the percentage of kids at a school who come from the school boundaries, which is high at amidon.

[Anonymous]

There is no way the Cap Quarters families will allow the boundary to extend over S Cap and include public housing like Greenleaf. There is a reason they lobbied for years for DCPS to do the study to determine to reopen Van Ness and that reason was NOT to include more public housing kids. Amidon is already underenrolled, and the biggest feeder of kids to AMidon comes from about 450 units of family public housing in SW.

[Anonymous]

Amidon is at 342. I think they kicked out the apple tree to make more room for classes. I think the school's capacity is 400, so they are getting pretty full.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way the Cap Quarters families will allow the boundary to extend over S Cap and include public housing like Greenleaf. There is a reason they lobbied for years for DCPS to do the study to determine to reopen Van Ness and that reason was NOT to include more public housing kids. Amidon is already underenrolled, and the biggest feeder of kids to AMidon comes from about 450 units of family public housing in SW.

It's cute that you think boundaries are going to people from applying to a school OOB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way the Cap Quarters families will allow the boundary to extend over S Cap and include public housing like Greenleaf. There is a reason they lobbied for years for DCPS to do the study to determine to reopen Van Ness and that reason was NOT to include more public housing kids. Amidon is already underenrolled, and the biggest feeder of kids to AMidon comes from about 450 units of family public housing in SW.

They won't "allow" it? By what authority?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way the Cap Quarters families will allow the boundary to extend over S Cap and include public housing like Greenleaf. There is a reason they lobbied for years for DCPS to do the study to determine to reopen Van Ness and that reason was NOT to include more public housing kids. Amidon is already underenrolled, and the biggest feeder of kids to AMidon comes from about 450 units of family public housing in SW.

Breaking News! There will be plenty of "public housing kids" once again living in the old Capper-Carrolsburg neighborhood from which families were displaced to construct your $700,000 townhomes. Also, some famines living east of SoCapitol might even qualify for proximity preference to Van Ness.

[Anonymous]

You mean west of south Capitol?

[Anonymous]

When the whole Capper/Carrolsburg redevelopment is finished it will include 707 public housing rental units (according to JDland). But 300 are senior slots. Only 86 are in townhouses (so big families are unlikely to come back). And everyone coming back has to go through background and credit checks, so many parents in market and workforce-rate units at Capitol Quarter probably feel there will still be a predominance of middle or upper-class kids.

Proximity preference is 3000 feet or about .57 of a mile. Since Van Ness is at 5th and M SE there will be very few if any people from SW who qualify for proximity preference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no way the Cap Quarters families will allow the boundary to extend over S Cap and include public housing like Greenleaf. There is a reason they lobbied for years for DCPS to do the study to determine to reopen Van Ness and that reason was NOT to include more public housing kids. Amidon is already underenrolled, and the biggest feeder of kids to AMidon comes from about 450 units of family public housing in SW.

They won't "allow" it? By what authority?

They will have an income bracket bouncer out front and you have to have a show tax returns to get in /sarcasm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no way the Cap Quarters families will allow the boundary to extend over S Cap and include public housing like Greenleaf. There is a reason they lobbied for years for DCPS to do the study to determine to reopen Van Ness and that reason was NOT to include more public housing kids. Amidon is already underenrolled, and the biggest feeder of kids to AMidon comes from about 450 units of family public housing in SW.

They won't "allow" it? By what authority?

They will have an income bracket bouncer out front and you have to have a show tax returns to get in /sarcasm.

As long as the FARM rate is no greater than 20% at Van Ness Elementary school, Van Ness Elementary will be just as good as Brent Elementary in 2 or 3 years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way the Cap Quarters families will allow the boundary to extend over S Cap and include public housing like Greenleaf. There is a reason they lobbied for years for DCPS to do the study to determine to reopen Van Ness and that reason was NOT to include more public housing kids. Amidon is already underenrolled, and the biggest feeder of kids to AMidon comes from about 450 units of family public housing in SW.

They won't "allow" it? By what authority?

They will have an income bracket bouncer out front and you have to have a show tax returns to get in /sarcasm.

As long as the FARM rate is no greater than 20% at Van Ness Elementary school, Van Ness Elementary will be just as good as Brent Elementary in 2 or 3 years.

That's quite a prediction without knowing the quality and experience of the teachers and administration, number of SpEd students, etc. . Just not sure what you mean by "as good as." Is this a quantifiable criterion? BTW, the Brent farms rate is 11 percent and falling.