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[quote=Anonymous]Click! I think of myself as pretty informed but it only just now finally clicked why SH has that many OOB children but we're told no other schools can be added to the feeder pattern. I knew but it wasn't so clear to me the numbers guy/gal laid it out for me a few posts up. For those who're still confused it helps to think backward: Stuart-Hobson currently has 78% OOB students (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Stuart-Hobson+Middle+School/). But it's not like 78% lotteried into SH, only a fraction thereof. By far most of those 78% OOB students attended one of the feeding elementary schools and then transferred to SH by right (Watkins, Ludlow-Taylor, J.O. Wilson). Just to hammer home the point: Watkins is composed of 74% OOB students (granted, many of them probably from other Ward 6 ES boundaries), Ludlow-Taylor has 77% OOB students. Compare that to J.O. Wilson's 60%, Maury's 61%, and Brent's 62%. So no wonder!

Just funneling additional schools into SH obviously can't be done because there are indeed very few spots left up for grabs. Only solutions are:
- Not allow transfers by right (which ain't gonna happen because that would cause a DC-wide upheaval of the entire school system)
- Adding additional feeders at the expense of existing ones (e.g. closing schools as suggested)
- Adding space, and that's the solution that hasn't received any meaningful attention because there just isn't a way to add much space to SH[/quote]

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