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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]

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]

Not according to the lottery results on the DCPS website. It probably varies by school, but the ones I checked showed a lot more OOB slots filled in pre-K then upper grades. However, if it will make you feel better, I'll concede the point which is tangential to my main argument.  You cannot limit Deal to Ward 3 feeder schools and continue to maintain diversity.
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Well, your comment was in the context of the three in-boundary feeder schools that are whiter than Deal as a whole, so let's look.  From lottery.dcps.dc.gov:

pre-K
Janney:  57 IB admitted, 44 IB waitlisted, 256 OOB waitlisted
Murch: 56 IB admitted, 25 IB waitlisted, 368 OOB waitlisted
Lafayette: 77 IB admitted, 25 IB waitlisted, 282 OOB waitlisted

Granted, these are the initial lottery results, and there is some waitlist movement -- but not 25 spots. No OOB kids are getting into pre-K at any of those schools.

Where are the OOB admissions?

Janney -- K--1, 1st -- 1, 2nd -- 3, 3rd -- 5, 4th -- 0, 5th -- 1
Murch -- K --0, 1st -- 0, 2nd -- 0, 3rd -- 0, 4th -- 3, 5th -- 13
Lafayette -- K --0, 1st --0, 2nd -- 0, 3rd -- 0, 4th -- 0, 5th  -- 0

So the three schools admitted a total of 27 kids in the OOB lottery this year, and 22 of them -- 81% -- were in grades 3-5.

To your broader point, "You cannot limit Deal to Ward 3 feeder schools and continue to maintain diversity," sure you can.  Go back to this list:
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

Ward 3 is more diverse than you think. Only three of those schools are whiter than Deal as a whole (and only two Ward 3 schools), and while those three have essentially ceased accepting OOB kids -- 27 this year, out of a combined enrollment of 1704 -- they are still more diverse than the country as a whole or the region as a whole.  A Deal with a smaller attendence area may not be [i]as diverse[/i] as you want -- and it may not be the kind of diversity you want -- but it would be diverse.[/quote]

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