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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be happily amazed if anyone on DCUM has enrolled their child in Wells.

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Whittier/Wells/Coolidge doesn’t seem to get a lot of action on this board. [/quote]

Take a look at Whittier's 3rd and 4th grade test sçores this year.  They are outstanding.  Also notable is the high performance of the at-risk students.[/quote]

Whittier does seem to be trending higher. But while we're on the subject of Wells and its feeders, for the life of me I do not understand why that feeder pattern doesn't offer any dual language schools.

Percentage of Latino students: Takoma (31%), Brightwood (75%), LaSalle-Backus (47%), Whittier (25%).

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[b]I think a lot of them go to DCB.[/b]

What really wows me about Whittier is that it's half-at risk and those kids are doing as well as the non-at-risk.[/quote]

That is impressive. But who is the 'them' you think are at DCB? The percentages above are the students who were enrolled in 2018-19.

Alas for Wells, Whittier is the smallest of hte feeders, with 371 total students. The others are a good bit larger (LSB 416; Brightwood 812; Takoma 518).

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"Them" is students IB for Coolidge.  You can see on the Student Commute Map.[/quote]

I think we're talking past each other. Right now there are 2117 PK-8 students enrolled in the Coolidge feeder pattern. 1152 are Latino, or just over 54%. My point is that this part of Ward 4 is ripe for a dual language school, and they would almost certainly not have to draw OOB native Spanish speakers to achieve the ideal 50/50 split.

DCB's enrollment is 451 -- on top of the above. [/quote]

A lot of the parents who might have advocated and fundraised for Spanish probably go to DCB or nearby Spanish schools, is what I mean.  It deflates the momentum.

It sounds like a fine idea to me, but DCPS historically does not impose language programs without parent support, so that may be part of it.  And Spanish teachers are in demand and they may have a hard time feeling like they can staff it.  I dunno.

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