SWS middle school feed?

[Anonymous]

I think 25-30 Maury 4th graders staying for 5th next year. There will be two Maury 5th grade classes. Unclear how many will move on to E-H from there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why SWS needs a middle school feed. Everyone who goes there has an IB school based on their home address. If the school is city-wide on the way in, it should be city-wide on the way out. That is how charters work that are not part of a specific system such as language immersion. If there was a Reggio middle school that was fed by all the city-wide Reggio elementary schools then it would make sense that SWS would get a feed to that. But, since such a middle school doesn't exist and there are no other city-wide Reggio schools to fill up such a middle school, everyone should just return to their IB middle school.

Neighborhood schools are for neighborhood kids. Kids at city-wide schools can fill open spaces at those neighborhood schools through the city-wide OOB lottery.

So is the penalty for attending a city-wide school not being able to stay with your cohort and friends from K-5? You sign on for city wide, you sign on to sending your kid to a new group of students and new environment in MS? I'm not saying I disagree withy his, just wondering what the sentiment is surrounding citywide schools. If DCPS were to add more citywide, specialized schools, is this the general consensus about what should happens to them in MS? Does this mean citywide schools ultimately hurt or help the MS feed... Is this an argument against them?

I wouldn't use the word penalty, since going to a city-wide school isn't a requirement for anyone and staying with your cohort from K-5 is not the most important consideration when considering MS (and, if it was to your family, you could always choose to go to your IB school.) There are lots of kids at K-5 charters whose parents are making the same city-wide choice and will have to make a new choice at MS. I'm not sure it is an argument against city-wide schools. We all make trade offs when choosing schools (or at least choosing to try to get lucky in the lottery) and not having a MS feed seems like a reasonable downside for the upside of getting into a specialized program for ES.

+1 This seems like a reasonable position

[Anonymous]

12:41 ??? Then why does Oyster have a feed? Logan dodged this by adding MS to itself, which SWS just does not have the room to do in the Goding building.

[Anonymous]

Oyster is a neighborhood school, not a city-wide school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:12:41 ??? Then why does Oyster have a feed? Logan dodged this by adding MS to itself, which SWS just does not have the room to do in the Goding building.

Is Oyster a pure city-wide school? I thought that there was a connection to the surrounding neighborhood and that kids from that neighborhood had a preference at Oyster, even if it was behind native Spanish speakers, so that the school could be seen as being part of that neighborhood's school choices.

Your question made me curious so I went to the Oyster-Adams website. It says, "For children residing within the formal school neighborhood boundaries, admission to Oyster in grades K-8 is a matter of right." It looks to me like it is a lot closer to an IB neighborhood school than a city-wide school like SWS. What was the comparison that you were trying to make?

[Anonymous]

To confirm, the ONLY two city wide elementary schools in the city are in ward 6 and are less than a mile away from each other?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To confirm, the ONLY two city wide elementary schools in the city are in ward 6 and are less than a mile away from each other?

So far! It was explained on one of these threads that there are many extra school buildings on the Hill that date back to the segregated schools. I'd much rather they repurpose them for citywide options (especially since the Hill is by definition a central location) than sell them for condos.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To confirm, the ONLY two city wide elementary schools in the city are in ward 6 and are less than a mile away from each other?

So far! It was explained on one of these threads that there are many extra school buildings on the Hill that date back to the segregated schools. I'd much rather they repurpose them for citywide options (especially since the Hill is by definition a central location) than sell them for condos.

"many"? that's a stretch. a number have been sold and converted to condos. Aside from Van Ness which will reopen in 2015-16, what other unoccupied school buildings are located in Ward 6 (Hine aside since it's getting demolished). Two Rivers will occupy the the Charles E. Young buidling (and sell their NoMa buildings, not likely to DCPS)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To confirm, the ONLY two city wide elementary schools in the city are in ward 6 and are less than a mile away from each other?

So far! It was explained on one of these threads that there are many extra school buildings on the Hill that date back to the segregated schools. I'd much rather they repurpose them for citywide options (especially since the Hill is by definition a central location) than sell them for condos.

"many"? that's a stretch. a number have been sold and converted to condos. Aside from Van Ness which will reopen in 2015-16, what other unoccupied school buildings are located in Ward 6 (Hine aside since it's getting demolished). Two Rivers will occupy the the Charles E. Young buidling (and sell their NoMa buildings, not likely to DCPS)

Well, there are too many neighborhood schools still open. Most of the Hill schools have large OOB populations.

[Anonymous]

Poor little coddled SWS'ers. Send 'em to SH or EH with the metal detectors to get a dose of how the 99% live.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To confirm, the ONLY two city wide elementary schools in the city are in ward 6 and are less than a mile away from each other?

So far! It was explained on one of these threads that there are many extra school buildings on the Hill that date back to the segregated schools. I'd much rather they repurpose them for citywide options (especially since the Hill is by definition a central location) than sell them for condos.

"many"? that's a stretch. a number have been sold and converted to condos. Aside from Van Ness which will reopen in 2015-16, what other unoccupied school buildings are located in Ward 6 (Hine aside since it's getting demolished). Two Rivers will occupy the the Charles E. Young buidling (and sell their NoMa buildings, not likely to DCPS)

Well, there are too many neighborhood schools still open. Most of the Hill schools have large OOB populations.

What does any of this have to do with SWS not needing a MS feed, which it doesn't because it isn't a neighborhood school? A city-wide school could be located in Ward 6 or 7 or 8, but it wouldn't need a middle school feed because it doesn't take local kids (unless by chance) and isn't part of the neighborhood feeder system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poor little coddled SWS'ers. Send 'em to SH or EH with the metal detectors to get a dose of how the 99% live.

Looks like it is EH.

[Anonymous]

Yup. SWS graduates will head to Eliot Hine, but not really since there is no boundary all those SWS students actually live somewhere that already has a zoned middle school for their address ( via the elementary they are zoned for )

[Anonymous]

As I said, SWS will wither away at the upper grades.

[Anonymous]

No one in their right mind would go to EH or SH for MS.