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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dude, look at the OP document. The relative growth numbers are elsewhere. Please just read it and get back to us.[/quote]

OK I get that you didn’t read it. But the DC Office of Planning predicts that Columbia Heights gains 1779 kids under 17 by 2025 and Petworth gains 1940 by 2025. Georgetown by comparison gains 394 in the same time. Other clusters around there gain 300-700 but nothing to justify focusing on growth in Ward 2 instead of awards 1 and 4 which are the major seders of students to WOTP schools. [/quote]

It's not just Georgetown....I'm not sure why you're so hung up on that. There's also large growth predicted for the Palisades area (+688), Glover Park/McLean Gardens (+505), and Eaton catchment (+307). All these kids are getting piped into Hardy and then onto Wilson. This is in addition to the current levels of over-crowding in Deal/Wilson. Something - anything - must clearly change WOTP. This simply is not sustainable and 2025 growth projections that your provided in this thread show it.

Yes, I completely agree that Petworth will see the biggest growth in the city. But the problem now is that many of those Petworth families are moving heaven and earth to get their kids into Wilson or charters and not touching the large underutilized HS facilities on their side of the park. That will need to change moving forward. Petworth parents in 2025 will NOT have Wilson as an option. And that's where the rubber will meet the road.

Ironically, getting another WOTP high school will ensure that OOB families still have options WOTP, if that's what they want. But the current trends show that the door for Wilson is quickly shutting for any families who don't live in the geographic boundary. Perhaps that's the strategy by Bowser/DCPS to force EOTP families to attend their local by-right high schools. But many of them have options and will move away, IMHO.[/quote]

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