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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coolidge, Wells, and Whittier are all over capacity in one of the fastest growing neighborhoods for families in DC. It's wild to me that DCPS just told Whittier they'll basically modernize to the same capacity and instead of building a new building for Wells just added a cafeteria for Coolidge.[/quote]

+1000

This is the part of the city I was going to mention.  Wells was overcrowded right after it was built.  Whittier keeps growing its enrollment despite a horrible old building.  When that new building is built it will be immediately overcrowded.  Why? Because DCPS refuses to plan for growth and make the school bigger.  DCPS is a truly terrible organization.[/quote]

The new Whittier should accommodate 800 children at least. Even if they don’t use the extra classrooms immediately, they will have them to alleviate growing demand later.[/quote]

Yes, and it's a really impressive school in terms of high performance with a diverse student body. Adding seats there would benefit current and future students.[/quote]

In theory this is what the boundary committee was discussing last year, so the topic is on people's radars. I agree with people commenting about keeping an eye on charter school buildings in the next few years. In the 2000s, DCPS enrollment was declining, and the population of DC as a whole was not where it is today, so they closed too many DCPS schools and/or converted them into charter (or built new buildings for the charters). The shine is wearing off on a lot of the charters and I think some smaller charters (ie not Friendship, KIPP, etc.) are realizing it is a lot of work to be their own LEA, so there could be a world where some of those schools/buildings get brought back under the DCPS umbrella.

The population growth has stalled a bit, but there are also more families enrolling in public schools - if that continues, it could snowball and more kids could get pulled away from private schools so you'd see an increase in enrollment without having any actual change in population numbers if that makes sense. [/quote]

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