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[quote=Anonymous]It's a complicated question to predict what will happen to a specific school. I think people aren't expecting major changes in this round, overall.

Is this an elementary school? A few key points:

DCPS has to provide everyone with an IB school option. So if your IB school were closed, you would be reassigned to a different school and be IB there. Everyone has an IB school at all times. If you are OOB at a school that is being closed, you have the option of your IB or playing the lottery. If your school is "merged" rather than closed, that means all the kids at your school would be offered a seat at the other merging school, or that some other school would be merged into your building.

DCPS tries to give everyone a school within a certain distance of their home-- I think it's half or three-quarters of a mile for elementary.

Closing schools seldom happens in the past 10 years or so. It can only be done if there is a nearby school (or schools) that has room for every one of the kids. And because DCPS enrollment is trending upwards, they're reluctant to close schools if they think they might need to open them again.

If a school is struggling with enrollment, sometimes they make the boundary of the school bigger to give it more IB kids. They don't have to close a school just because it isn't utilizing its entire building. They can just hire less staff. If your enrollment is dropping, they are likely to replace the principal.[/quote]

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