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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all know that Shepherd is 74% non-white and 7% at-risk, right? 7% at risk is maybe 3 kids per grade? So we're going to pull 3 kids per year into a separate feeder pattern? Based on which year of at-risk status? The entry year into the school? Matriculating grade? [/quote]

Don’t try and muck this conversation up with actual percentages and numbers.   You are ruining the vibes.  They only want what’s best for at-risk kids even though it makes little sense [/quote]

Bad stats. Shepherd is 55% AA, and 8% Hispanic. It's 26% white. The neighborhood itself -like Bancroft's is becoming more and more white. Shepherd and Lafayette are Ward 4 schools and should be routed to Ward 4 MS/HS. Lafayette was going to get its own set-aside ECE program but they refused to sully their hands crossing the park. Shepherd has similarly displayed annoyed and entitled behavior. Boundaries and feeder patterns change. Ask Crestwood. [/quote]

Right, and 100 minus 26 is ... 74 (because it's 11% mixed race). And it's still 7% at-risk, even though *gasp* it's mostly brown kids. https://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Shepherd+Elementary+School

This has been talked to death already, but Bancroft and Shepherd are the only two majority minority schools that feed into Deal. Shepherd Park is not gentrifying like Mount Pleasant because Shepherd Park was ALWAYS MC/UMC. MP's gentrification means Bancroft's demographics are changing rapidly, while Shepherd has been, and continues to be, the preferred DCPS for MC and UMC black families, even if it's ALSO getting more buy in from white families. That makes it a political non-starter to cut Shepherd out of Deal/JR. Bancroft on the other hand, is a bilingual school geographically closer to the DCPS bilingual middle and high schools. And agreed about Lafayette - it's in Ward 4 and should feed to Ward 4 middle/high schools. It's also more than twice the size of Shepherd, and would actually make a dent in Deal overcrowding. [/quote]

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