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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]... Look, the only viable answer to Deal overcrowding is to reduce enrollment.  And unless we're prepared to go to some crazy all-city lottery, that means neighborhoods with other middle school options will need to be shifted out of Deal's orbit.  For better or worse, that puts places like Crestwood and Shepherd Park on the bubble.  Whatever political favors got called in to press Mayor Bowser to tweak the plan are just temporary bandaids.  Real solutions, and real progress for our city's middle schools, just got delayed by another 5-10 years.[/quote]
Yeah because cutting the 12 kids from Crestwood and the 30 from Shepherd are going to make things A-ok at Deal. [/quote]
Well, according to the Code for DC map (http://edu.codefordc.org/#!/school/405), you're exaggerating substantially how few students come to Deal from those neighborhoods.  Here is a sample of the Deal students from some other areas and how they might reduce enrollment:

Shepherd Park area - 64 students
Takoma area - 63 students
Crestwood/Petworth area - 128 students
Mt. Pleasant area - 107 students
Total - 362 students

Deal enrollment without those students - 943 (back what it was in 2011)
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Your numbers don't dispute what the PP wrote about Crestwood and Shepherd Park. Your numbers are for all 3 years at Deal (so actually fewer than the 30 students per year that PP suggested for Shepherd) and Crestwood is lumped in with Petworth, which is a very large area. Those kids from Petworth are all OOB at Hearst, Eaton, etc.

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