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I disagree that DC does not care about socioeconomically diverse public schools. DC has a lot of schools with rather miniscule numbers of at-risk students and a lot of schools where at-risk students are the majority and not very many schools that fall in-between. This is largely due to school choice (clustering and opt-out effects) and geographic boundaries. There is research that pretty heavily supports schools that fall in-between these extremes.
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DCPS absolutely does not care.  Eastern could be another JR---a strong large gen-ed high school---IF DCPS cared to make it so.  If they did, then they would get most of the IB Capitol Hill families who currently shun it, as well as significant amount of OOB applications from middle and upper middle class families in Wards 1, 4 and 5, where there are no strong gen-ed high schools.  DCPS doesn't want to do that, because 2/3 of Eastern HS is OOB kids who are fleeing worse high schools in wards 7 and 8 and the school is 75% at-risk.  So DCPS could create a socio-economically diverse HS at Eastern but has chosen not to do it.    [/quote]

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