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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Deal Feeders:
Bancroft 	7% white
Eaton 	39% white
Hearst 	22% white
Janney 	69% white
Lafayette 	71% white
Murch 	63% white
Oyster-Adams 	28% white
Shepherd	6% white
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Most of those schools only have diversity as a result of OOB enrollment. As the current OOB students graduate, the west of the park Deal feeders will become less diverse. In fact, were it not for the pre-K lottery, these schools already would have almost no OOB students and -- given the make-up of the inbound neighborhoods, would be almost entirely white.

The schools with inbound diversity -- Bancroft, Shepherd and Oyster-Adams -- are precisely the schools that would be zoned out if Deal's boundaries were consolidated within Ward 3. The same is true for areas included within the Deal boundaries that are zoned for elementary schools that are not Deal feeders. For instance, Crestwood is zoned for West and Powell for elementary, but Deal for middle school. If you eliminate the non-Ward 3 areas, you are left with schools whose inbound enrollment is almost entirely white.  I believe that you and I agree on this point. But, you seem to be counting on the pre-K lottery to continue to provide diversity. Something I am not sure will always be true.

I agree with you that the political situation in DC -- not just DCPC -- is such that we shouldn't expect anything more than a disastrous solution. As a result, no change is greatly preferable. 
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You misunderstand the OOB lottery. Nobody is getting into a Ward 3 school in Pre-K in the OOB lottery. The lottery has four tiers -- IB w/sibling, IB w/o sibling, OOB w/sibling and OOB w/o sibling.  For Pre-K they're not required to take all of the in-boundary kids, and typically what happens is that all the IB kids with siblings get in, and a few of the IB w/o siblings.

Where the OOB kids are getting into the Ward 3 schools is in grades 3-5, as spaces open up as kids peel off for private school.[/quote]

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