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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope the lab school keeps the property. They do good work. If lab can not have it. Sell it for condos because the site does not work for DCPS.[/quote]

The site worked for DCPS for 60 years. It's a much better site than Key or Mann or Janney or Eaton. [/quote]

No it is not. There is not the population density around the site to justify a school. Sell the property or rent it out to the lab school. How many school age children who attend public school live in walking distance of the site? What are you going to bus kids over there?  You all are smoking crack.[/quote]

Wishful thinking. Go look at the DME's Master Facilities Plan:
https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/DC%20MFP%202018.pdf

Go look at Appendix a16 where they have enrollment projections for the next ten years. The three closest elementaries -- Stoddert, Key and Mann -- are all predicted to gain over 100 students each. All are currently at or over capacity. Stoddert and Key each have six trailers. You could completely fill an elementary just with the overflow from those three schools.

Look at the Office of Planning youth projections here:
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Neighborhood%20Cluster%20Age%200-17.pdf

The school sits on the boundaries of cluster 13 -- which is predicted to gain 688 kids over ten years -- and cluster 14, which is predicted to gain 505. Plenty of kids there for an elementary school. 
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