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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn't new. It's from the 2014 boundary study when MacFarland and Wells were in distant planning and all the feeder elementaries were Pk-8 education campuses. It's a very small number of DCPS students who are in those two zones. The 2024 boundary study recommended ending that grandfathering but the mayor didn't accept that recommendation. (I was on the 2024 study committee.)[/quote]

not correct. This year (25-26) was the last and final school year of that grandfathering -- https://dcgov.app.box.com/v/2023dcboundaryreport

Recommendation 8
DCPS shall, effective SY2025-26, sunset the 2015
Boundary and Student Assignment revisions that
extended the phase-in policy for families assigned to a
new middle until 2022 (for instance, those neighborhoods
that had extended phase-in policies maintaining rights to
enroll at both MacFarland MS and Deal MS) as well as
sunset the establishment of dual rights for 8th graders at
Kelly Miller MS, removing their right to attend Eastern HS
(by feeder right). This sunsetting ensures that every
middle school attendance zone boundary will consist of
the select elementary attendance zones designated to it,
and no students will have multiple middle school
geographic rights. [/quote]

OP here. Ok, I'm still confused. LOL. So this change isn't new for 25-26 and it's actually going away for 26-27?[/quote]

The history is that in in the 2014 boundary study -- Lewis was changed from Deal to MacFarland feeder. The big issue at the time was that Macfarland didn't yet exist and Lewis was still a K-8... so they grandfather everyone at Lewis to continue to Deal until MacFarland opened... it then opened in 2018, and the grandfathering was supposed to end in 2022 -- but some reason in the name of the pandemic they didn't let it expire.   Fast forward to 2023 with they did another boundary study and very clearly recommended that the grandfathering end next school year 25-26, but per the mayor, she didn't reject the recommendation, she is "needs more information"    ..............  long winded way of saying .... you can prob get a few more years out of this but its ending at some point.[/quote]

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