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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neither would be enough. Only really answer would have to be both plus Lafayette but that would suck to happen when both schools are 50-60% IB. To continue to zone out any schools while 50% of the school is OOB seems plain silly to me.[/quote]

NP.  Seems the obvious first step is to eliminate OOB feeder rights.  Shepherd is something like 50% OOB, right?  Stop letting people use it as a backdoor to Deal/Wilson.  If that doesn't reduce the overcrowding enough, then consider whether realigning boundaries makes sense.  
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I think you need to look at the whole set of Wilson feeders before you kick a school out due to OOB percentages. And as the PP noted, the IB percentage at all of them is increasing.

IB percentages at Wilson feeders in SY 15-16 -- I've noted the schools which have programs for special ed students as that inflates the OOB % (students placed by DCPS because their IB school isn't able to support).

Shepherd 35%
Bancroft 59%
Murch 61% (special ed classrooms)
Lafayette 85%
Hearst 33% (special ed classrooms)

Hyde-Addison 42%
Mann 81% (special ed classroom)
Eaton 50%
Stoddert 73%

Oyster-Adams 43%[/quote]

15:36 responding.  Those are interesting numbers; can you please post a link to their source?

I wasn't suggesting Shepherd should be removed entirely simply because of its high OOB %; if my PP came across that way, I apologize.  I am suggesting that all OOB feeder rights - whether via Shepherd or any other school - ought to be eliminated as a first step to alleviate overcrowding at Deal/Wilson.  Eliminating OOB feeder rights seems the obvious first step.  At the very least OOB feeder students should be given a lower admissions priority than IB students, so the OOB feeder students will get admitted only if there are spots left after all the IB students and before max capacity is reached.

After OOB feeder rights are removed, if Deal/Wilson are still over capacity, then DCPS can assess how best to adjust the boundaries to control enrollment.  But IMHO, given that it seems to take DCPS several years to evaluate after any move, it make sense to act soon on the OOB feeder issue, to get the ball rolling.[/quote]

The  IB/OOB percentages come from the each school's DCPS school profile page http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/
The special education classroom listings are here https://dcps.dc.gov/publication/special-education-classroom-locations

FWIW don't think you can think about just Deal/Wilson. You need to include Hardy as well. I didn't list it, but they are still admitting more than a couple dozen kids per grade at 6th, in addition to students who come to Hardy via one of its feeders.

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