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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's possible that 8 years from now Shepherd will still feed to Deal, but considering that Deal is currently pressing 1,500 students it seems likely some schools will need to be cut from the feeding system.  Shepherd is one of the more logical choices to eliminate.

MacFarland is the most logical possibility.  Considering Roosevelt is right next to MacFarland, there's no way it would be Coolidge (which is good, because Coolidge might as well be jail).[/quote]

logical yes, but the optics don't look so good. So Deal cuts the neighborhoods that actually provide some IB diversity?  Not gonna happen.   WoTP elems will get cut first and sent to Hardy which will help Hardy in the long run.[/quote]

Better to increase commutes than to risk bad optics! [/quote]

Meh.  DC is no longer majority AA.  It's plurality AA, but by the time her kid's in the upper elementary grades there will be a lot more demographic changes and updates.  By then Shepherd will probably be majority White anyway (especially including the "White - Hispanic" category which we all know exists on our demographic forms).  The optics won't be bad at all.[/quote]
I'm not so sure about this. Shepherd Park is still attracting a lot of high SES AA families.  PK4 is still majority AA by quite a bit.

The biggest potential demographics change would probably come if the apartment building proposed for Georgia & Eastern gets constructed and opens up a whole bunch of spots for in-boundary renters. But I'm not sure which way that would swing the demographics, honestly.[/quote]

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