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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about using Fillmore as a PK-only building and taking PK out of all the overcrowded elementary schools? Just offer preference to all the families IB for schools that are losing their PK. Those schools can then turn one PK classroom into an art room, or use other space for art (I just heard Lafayette has a "peace room" whatever that is so don't tell me there's no room) or DCPS can make Ellington share some of its space and bus the kids who currently go to Fillmore there.

A different idea--what if Ellington expanded downwards and took middle schoolers (or even just 8th grade)? It would help with the issue that they allegedly can't find enough talented high schoolers in DC, would take some kids out of Deal and Hardy, and would better fill up its nice new building.  The kids could have different schedules and other ways to keep middle and high schoolers separate. And just like BASIS and Latin have an advantage by starting at 5th when other schools start at 6th, Ellington could have an advantage if it started at 8th instead of 9th.[/quote]

The elementary schools in Ward 3 are not overcrowded - they are large and some people may not like that but they are not overcrowded.

And with the shift of Eaton to Hardy there should be enough middle school seats WOTP for the foreseeable future too.

The problem has always been Wilson - Deal alone is now sending enough students to completely fill Wilson.

[b]You should easily be able to replicate the SES mix at Deal and Wilson by bundling Mt Pleasant, Crestwood, 16th Street Heights, Brightwood, Shepherd Park & Colonial Village into Coolidge or Roosevelt.
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I don't think some of the people in these discussions realize how diverse Deal and Wilson are today - sometimes it feels like these Upper NW parents think Deal and Wilson look Sidwell when the reality is far from that.

BTW it is 3.4 miles from Lafayette to Coolidge and 1.5 miles from Lafayette to Wilson - but remember much of the Lafayette district is east of the actual school so there addresses within Lafayette's boundaries that are probably more like 2.5 miles from Coolidge and 2 miles from Wilson.  I doubt too many students from Lafayette are walking to Wilson or even taking the bus so going across the park isn't really such a burden.

It is not logistically hard to overnight change the student mix at Coolidge to one that should be palatable for those parents, assuming those parents are ok with the current mix at Wilson which is only 34% white.[/quote]

Um, [b]if you took out Mt Pleasant, Crestwood, 16th Street Heights, Brightwood, Shepherd Park & Colonial Village from Deal/Wilson, (and presumably OTB families), the SES and racial diversity of DEAL/Wilson would drastically decline.[/b]  But I guess that suits WOTP families just fine?[/quote]

Don't overplay your hand.  Have you seen what real estate prices are like in these areas, particularly Mt. Pleasant and Crestwood.  Demographics are certainly converging with WOTP.[/quote]

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