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Anonymous wrote:I think it's pretty clear that a public service as vital and complex as schools needs a single point of contact for administration and legal control. An elected school board seems like a HORRIBLE way to oversee schools. The exact opposite of what we need.
Charter schools definitely seem to have proven themselves in DC. But, it does seem undeniable that they hollow out neighborhood schools.
I'll deny it right here:
DCPS ( neighborhood schools ) enrollment in SY 2011-12:
45,191
DCPS ( neighborhood schools ) enrollment in SY 2019-20:
51,036
DCPS ( neighborhood schools ) enrollment in pandemic year 2020-21 slightly down:
49,890
It is *undeniable* that both charter and DCPS sectors have grown and improved over the last decade.
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment
Do they break this out by individual school? Sure, the overall population has grown but which schools are over-enrolled and which schools are under-enrolled ( hollowed out)?
I don't mean necessarily by enrollment size, but by the cohort of grade-level kids and parents with resources to improve the schools that are siphoned off to charters. We talk about this ALL THE TIME here wrt Ward 6. I don't necessarily think this is a negative overall (I'm definitely considering charter options) but we see in Ward 6 that the
charter pathway hollows out the neighborhood MS and HS without at doubt.
I wish people would check their facts before saying something like this
2011-12 enrollment audit
Stuart Hobson MS: 403
Eliot-Hine MS: 348
Jefferson Academy + Middle School: 263
Eastern HS: 303
2019-20 enrollment audit
Stuart Hobson MS:
increase to 487
Eliot Hine: overall decrease to 262 ( but this is an
increase from 209 in 2015-16)
Jefferson Academy:
increase to 353
Eastern HS:
increase to 792
Check your facts. Don't believe everything you casually hear.
look, I’m dealing with this right now - 50% of our 4th grade class will peel off to go to a charter instead of IB MS. Every single year.
Moreover, most of the remaining 5th graders will not attend the IB MS. Of the six dozen 4th graders enrolled at Brent in fall 2019, not even a dozen are attending Jefferson Academy as 6th graders this fall. There are more than twice as many 6th grade Brent graduates at BASIS than at the IB MS (and there would have been even more if BASIS had cleared its 5th grade WL last year). Maury and SWS (feeders for Eliot-Hine) see similar drop-offs, mostly to charters.
The increases we've seen in enrollment in Ward 6 neighborhood middle schools in the last decade have mainly been fueled by OOB enrollment. It's telling that white percentages at all four of the schools above have only nudged up slightly in the last decade, even as populations of white children have surged in their catchment areas. Catchment areas for all four of these schools are now majority white, while white percentages in the schools remain in the single digits at several of them. White enrollment has risen into the teens only at Stuart Hobson.
Who earned a victory leap with these stats?
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