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[quote=Anonymous][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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But aren't you looking at the wrong numbers?  I would think that the TOTAL number of IB kids would be more relevant as opposed to the number that are actually attending.  For example, aren't large numbers of kids who are IB for Watkins opting out?

The theory is based in part, at least as I understand it, on recapturing those IB students who are going charter/private/OOB.  [/quote]

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