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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really, Coolidge is no different than Eastern who was in the same predictament just 4 years ago.  Now albeit Eastern has a new facility but even when they didn't have a new facility they were the 3rd largest comprehensive high-school.

Eastern did not have enough students from the feeder schools to keep it viable but they did have enough students within the school boundaries.  Be honest if Eastern would have depended on Stuart Hobson, Eliot-Hine, Jefferson to fill seats it to would have been moth balled.  But what did they do... the school system relaunched Eastern with 300 9th graders that were recruited from all over the city.  Each year the incoming freshmen class average about 300 and here it is 4 years later and Eastern is the second largest comprehensive high-school with about 1200.  So again...what you put in, is what you get out.

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Deep analysis.   :roll:

Per you, Eastern recruited all over the city, but where do the students actually come from?

Here's what we know:

Eastern is 99% FARMS
99% Majority Minority
23% Special Education
only 40% Proficient or Advanced in Math
only 43% Proficient or Advanced in Reading

You want to read the deep truth about DCPS failing - again and again - to turn around an HS?

[i]Working in an urban public school means confronting hundreds of difficult backstories, and Mitchell seems to know them all. He stops one student in the hall to ask about his recent attendance issues. The student’s absences are due partly to poor health and partly to his daily trek from Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE. But when Mitchell asks why he’s truant—a word Mitchell patiently defines—the student says he simply doesn’t own enough clothes to compile a daily outfit, and would prefer it if the school adopted uniforms.

[b]Mitchell says his goal isn’t to be the best school in the city[/b]. [/i]

And this is why he will fail to attract higher SES families - because higher SES families want schools that aim to be "the best school in the city" (acknowledging that best for different students means different things).  The bottom line is that if Eastern aimed high and failed, and Roosevelt is aiming low, what would Coolidge aim for?  Hitting the floor without blowing a hole in its own foot?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45392/rough-ride-roosevelt-high-school/[/quote]

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