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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current SWS profile on the DCPS website states that it has 52% in-boundary students.  Does that mean that it was a boundary school and will be moving to a lottery only format?[/quote]

Potentially, but SWS has never had a standard neighborhood boundary.  It shared boundaries with the Cap Hill Cluster and rising students had right to attend to Watkins along with rising Peabody K.  Peabody was the 'by right' option for K and being inbounds improved odds for space in SWS for K but did not guarantee space.  It's not clear if there will be a proximity preference -- it may be lottery only.

That 2011-12 number is misleading because it does not include the expansion to 1st grade in 2012 which increased enrollment 50%.  That number may be lower for 2012-1-2013, but only because SWS is operating under Cluster boundaries and the draw for SWS is largely the greater Hill and near-Hill neighborhoods.  Lots of Hill families who are technically not inbounds but don't live too far away.  Peabody/Cluster and SWS made a temporary allowance for students to move between programs for 2012-13 (and until permanent home found).  Sibling priority was also granted for Cluster families, and Watkins is 75% OOB.

As a parent in posession of an SWS directory, I can honestly say SWS is about 75-80% Hill families (including H St and Hill East), whatever official number DCPS publishes.[/quote]

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