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[quote=Anonymous]The vast, vast, majority of white high-school aged kids in DCPS live in-bounds for Wilson or attend Wilson feeders. This will be less true now that Wilson's boundary shrank and more neighborhoods are gentrifying, but is still largely the case. Of those who do not have rights to Wilson, SWW, Latin, BASIS, and DCI (and maybe Ellington) can accommodate most of them. Some people want Wilson because it's a big school with lots of sports and extracurriculars and course selections and academies--McKinley and Banneker can't compete with that. Banneker is mostly female and McKinley is mostly male, which may be a plus or a minus for some kids. Some kids don't want to be the only (or near-only) white kid. Some couldn't pass the admissions test. Some don't want the commute. There's not just one reason.[/quote]
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