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The idea of opening new public schools in remote Foxhall Village to solve enrollment problems in Tenleytown caused by students living EOTP, many of whom are affluent and white, who live near grossly under enrolled but recently renovated public schools is just insane and shows the lack of courage from the DC Council.
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Two schools are proposed for the Foxhall area:
Foxhall Elementary will be a neighborhood elementary school that will pull kids from Key, Stoddert and Mann. The DCPS planning documents claim it will be filled by kids who live within 1.2 miles of the school, all of whom will be closer to their new school than their old school. The area is expected to gain a couple thousand school-age kids in the next 6-7 years. No intention there to alleviate crowding anywhere other than at those three schools.

MacArthur School will be at the old GDS lower school on MacArthur Boulevard. The ideas that are getting the most traction are to either have it be a high school that is fed only by Hardy, or move Hardy to the MacArthur site and have a new high school there. In either case there would be a net addition of one high school. Hardy would be removed from the Wilson feeder pattern, which would alleviate crowding at Wilson. Sure, it's not an ideal site, but it would add high school capacity.

DCPS is expected to add something like 15,000 students in the next 6-7 years, that excess capacity will largely vanish. [/quote]

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