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Well 83%

It's interesting to me that schools with very high OOB populations weren't considered for closing. If a school is designed to serve a neighborhood and less than 20% of the neighborhood is utilizing it, maybe they should close it.

. Sure the test scores were by DCPS standards good and by more objective standards closer to medicore.[/quote]

I have no idea where this 20% number is coming from (that less than 20% of the neighborhood is utilizing it); is there some source for that?  I am not aware of any statistics that can tell you what % of an in-bounds population actually go to the neighborhood school.    17% in bounds at the school does not mean that only 17% of in bounds families are choosing to go there.  In fact the Hearst boundaries are quite small and I think it's conceivable that even if every elementary school-aged kid in the neighborhood went there it would only be at about capacity.

And I will just point out the obvious, which is that if more neighborhood families chose it it would become more of a neighborhood school.  [/quote]

Yo. Check out the DCPS school profiles, which include in-boundary numbers:

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hearst+Elementary+School

It's not exactly a state secret.[/quote]

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