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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is SH fully enrolled this year?  What is SH's enrollment this year?  What is its capacity?  Can you get in OOB?[/quote]

I believe this year SH is at capacity, enrollment of 130 to 140 per each grade, total of 390 to 420 students.  It is fully enrolled.

The question of can you get in OOB varies by year.

in 2011-12, Cluster principal was new (Clemens) and didn't realize how underenrolled SH was until late in the summer (she started in july).  It was a tough year, a lot of the kids who enrolled late in that summer were not the strongest students (academics or behavior)

in 2012-13, Basis opened.  SH was fully enrolled, but many families had dual enrolled students and dropped out of SH and kept the BAsis enrollment,  at the last minute.  The school was somewhat underenrolled

in 2013-14, the Cluster principal cross checked the SH enrollment list vs. Basis, and weeded out the dual enrollees much earlier.  The summer was tough - the DCPS budget cut backs were in negotiation much of the summer, about how many teachers the school would have.  (For example, a seemingly random verdict came out of Henderson's shop in May 2013 that all schools with less than 400 students, which SH had in 2012-13, would have librarians etc. cut, and lose a bunch of staffing, that was fought over the summer with Catania's assistance to restore funding.. . ).  Regardless, for 2013-14, there were some OOB slots, perhaps 10 to 20 per grade in 6 & 7, in the lottery, and some movement after the school year started, but not a lot.

who knows what 2014-15 brings, with the first year of the integrated DCPS / charters lottery?

as pointed out up thread, if all the students from Watkins, LT, JO Wilson, who have a right to attend SH end up attending, the school is at capacity.[/quote]

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