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[quote=Anonymous]Not to beat a dead horse, but a quick survey of Title I schools (99% FARMs according to DC) on Cap Hill reveals most students are OOB, by a large margin.

Payne - 34% IB
Miner - 32% IB
JO Wilson - 28% IB
Tyler - 26% IB
Ludlow - 23% IB
Watkins - 21% IB

It appears that IB students effectively could be consolidated into two schools.

This can be contrasted with three other nearby Title I schools

*Amidon - 84% IB
*Thomson - 62% IB
*Walker-Jones - 68% IB

Only the Hill non-Title I schools -- i.e., Brent, Maury and Peabody -- are demonstrably majority IB, likely around 60 percent by now (wivirtue vast majority of OOB Brent students culled from the surrounding Title I jurisdictions).  I also understand that there is a fair amount of cross-pollination at the PS and PK levels because there are simply not enough spaces to accommodate all three and four-year olds at their IB school.

Can someone explain how the targeted "controlled choice" model (I have seen reference to a two-mile radius) would work when it seems obvious that there are not nearly enough high-SES students to reach anything approaching the proposed 50/50 threshold, particulalry when there is an extant high-SES IB population queuing up for Van Ness in 2015.  And how does all of this play out with SWS and CHM in the mix?  I would like to dismiss all of this as yet more horse manure but nothing surprises me any more.
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