what is your understanding of feeder rights in this context?

[Anonymous]

I have a child who will graduate from a Wilson feeding middle school. We reside inside the geographic boundary for this middle school. What happens if we move outside of the geographic boundary? Does my child still have access to Wilson because they will have graduated from a feeder middle?

We are NOT out of boundary for this middle. To me, the rules are clear in that scenario. The out-of-boundary student does clearly have access to Wilson.

[Anonymous]

I think it's at principal's discretion. Therefore, I would not move out and count on a space at Wilson.

[Anonymous]

If your child graduates from the feeder MS, he/she will be automatically enrolled at Wilson. When you go to Wilson to register, they will check your DC residency. I do not think they will check your boundary residency, even though they should. But it is a risk.

[Anonymous]

Read this document - see page 9 https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/sites/dcpsenrollment/files/page_content/attachments/SY18-19%20DCPS%20Enrollment%20and%20Lottery%20Handbook%20FINAL.pdf


"Where a student has been attending an in-boundary school and then moves out of boundary in the middle of the school year (a transfer due to change of address), the controlling regulation is 5-E DCMR 2105, which explains that the transferring student generally must attend the school in the new boundary, but the principal can, in his or her discretion, allow attendance at the prior school through the end of the terminal grade. They also have the right to attend their in-boundary school."


If your child is in Deal or Hardy via an OOB lottery seat, you can continue on to Wilson.

If your child is IB for Deal/Hardy and move out of bound, you lose your right to continue past middle to Wilson. You may be allowed to stay at Deal/Hardy through 8th (terminal grade) if the principal agrees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a child who will graduate from a Wilson feeding middle school. We reside inside the geographic boundary for this middle school. What happens if we move outside of the geographic boundary? Does my child still have access to Wilson because they will have graduated from a feeder middle?

We are NOT out of boundary for this middle. To me, the rules are clear in that scenario. The out-of-boundary student does clearly have access to Wilson.

Under the current rules, your child would not be able to attend Wilson. It is not Principal's discretion -- that's only through the terminal grade of your current school. However, if you stay IB until after your kid starts at Wilson and then move, it IS principal's discretion and you would likely be allowed to stay through graduation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a child who will graduate from a Wilson feeding middle school. We reside inside the geographic boundary for this middle school. What happens if we move outside of the geographic boundary? Does my child still have access to Wilson because they will have graduated from a feeder middle?

We are NOT out of boundary for this middle. To me, the rules are clear in that scenario. The out-of-boundary student does clearly have access to Wilson.

DCPS has not given a clear answer on this even when directly asked. At my elementary last year kids automatically enrolled in the feeder middle even though they were out of bounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a child who will graduate from a Wilson feeding middle school. We reside inside the geographic boundary for this middle school. What happens if we move outside of the geographic boundary? Does my child still have access to Wilson because they will have graduated from a feeder middle?

We are NOT out of boundary for this middle. To me, the rules are clear in that scenario. The out-of-boundary student does clearly have access to Wilson.

DCPS has not given a clear answer on this even when directly asked. At my elementary last year kids automatically enrolled in the feeder middle even though they were out of bounds.

Agree. The DCPS policy is clear, but it's not clear that the policy is being enforced or followed. It also is a new policy as of about a year or so ago and before then people who moved DID retain feeder rights.

[Anonymous]

There are many, many families with kids at Wilson or who have graduated from Wilson who never lived IB for Wilson. They secured an OOB seat at a feeder elementary school, continued to feed to Deal or Hardy and then to Wilson. They never lived in-boundary. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a child who will graduate from a Wilson feeding middle school. We reside inside the geographic boundary for this middle school. What happens if we move outside of the geographic boundary? Does my child still have access to Wilson because they will have graduated from a feeder middle?

We are NOT out of boundary for this middle. To me, the rules are clear in that scenario. The out-of-boundary student does clearly have access to Wilson.

DCPS has not given a clear answer on this even when directly asked. At my elementary last year kids automatically enrolled in the feeder middle even though they were out of bounds.

Agree. The DCPS policy is clear, but it's not clear that the policy is being enforced or followed. It also is a new policy as of about a year or so ago and before then people who moved DID retain feeder rights.

No that is wrong. You never retained your feeder rights unless you got in through the lottery. About a year ago, someone revised the manual (not the regulation or law) and said you did retain those rights, which was incorrect, but stayed on the books for a year then was fixed. By law, you lose the feeder school if you move, though some insistent wordsmiths will bend over backward to claim that they are entitled to enroll anywhere in DC they choose. But in practice, kids are automatically transferred and when they enroll, it isn't clear how they got there. Hence the outrageous overcrowding.