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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a 4th grade parent at one of those listed schools, where our classes are already 25/26 kids, I would be unhappy with more students coming from the OOB list. It’s too many kids. [/quote]

My assumption would be that your school will not be offering OOB spots.

2 years ago my 4th graders at a WOTP school had 21 kids in the class.   Clearly - they would have offered a spot or two BUT ....... people need to think through the entre picture.   What does that mean for Deal?   Does anyone care?  [/quote]

OP here.

Overcrowding at Deal and WOTP gets discussed ad nauseam on other threads. Based on the data I've seen and the projections I've read, it seems to me that it is simply a matter of time before Deal feeders do not offer any OOB seats. Of the schools on our list, Murch is 77% IB, Lafayette 86% IB, and Hearst 59% IB. (Eaton feeds to Hardy, so that's not relevant to the Deal situation.) I strongly suspect that if you look at PK4, K and 1st grade, what you will see is few if any OOB students. I have thought for some time that the issue of OOB feeder rights will likely sort itself out as more and more in-bounds families choose their local school over some other option. As those schools become more and more crowded with IB kids, I believe that a major boundary revision combined with opening new schools to accommodate the number of kids involved will be necessary. I fear that this will not happen in the next boundary review because the political will is not there, which is unfortunate for the kids involved. [/quote]

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