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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.

They absolutely could, and this Ward 4 family would commute to it. If they can stand up MacArthur as a strong JR-alternative, it’s a question of will not ability. Caveat that they would need to do the same for the feeder middle school(s) at the same time, which possibly is beyond their reach.[/quote]

They could totally fix it with the feeder schools.  One of the big problems is that the strongest elementary schools on the Hill do not all feed to the same MS.  If DCPS would funnel all the Hill ES into two MS and create enough academic rigor at both that families with a focus on education would be willing to apply OOB to fill in the slots, then you could build a feeder pattern to Eastern.  Right now, the Hill ES are dispersed into 3 MS and IB families peel off at 5th for the charter world because they do not see a path to HS.    But doing  that  means  accepting that those pesky demanding MC and UMC parents  are not, in fact, the enemy.  [/quote]

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