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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
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]

According to the 2010 census, the white population of Ward 3 is 83.5%. The black population is 5.0%.  Ward 3 is exactly as diverse as I think. This discussion has become a bit ridiculous because you have started either cherry-picking or misrepresenting data. Of the list above, Bancroft is in Ward 1, Shepherd is in Ward 4, and Oyster-Adams is not a feeder school.

That leaves the following schools:

Eaton 39% white, 36% in-boundary
Hearst 22% white, 19% in-boundary
Janney 69% white, 86% in-boundary
Lafayette 71% white, 88% in-boundary
Murch 63% white, 78% in-boundary

So, in each case (with the possible exception of Janney which has nearly 10% mixed raced), the white population of the school corresponds to the in-boundary registration. So, again, diversity comes as a result of OOB students, regardless of the grade in which they enter the school. I can't believe there is any argument about this. On top of that, Hearst -- which is the most diverse of the bunch -- is only about half the size of the others. Eaton is the second smallest. If you limit Deal to its Ward 3 feeders, there is no way you will be able to retain its current diversity and without OOB students there would be almost no diversity at all. If anyone believes that you can take a school that is nearly 40% black and turn it to 5%-10% black and still consider it to be diverse (given the realities of Washington, DC), they are living on a different planet than me.

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