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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. So, if I understand correctly, the Ward 3 schools are packed. Increasingly, they are packed by IB students, which force more and more OOB kids into either charters, private, or the suburbs.

So, other than the fact that the District's population is rising, what is new about any this that hasn't been the case for decades? If anything, a rising population (of presumably relatively high SES families) will improve the quality of local schools as a result. Or perhaps as others elsewhere have stated, these kids' parents will prefer to enroll them in new charters or privates because they demand good schools.

Again, I understand the angst as I have a very young child myself. But I fail to see any [b]new[/b] 'crisis' here that hasn't been going on for many generations.

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The crisis is that with the OOB feeder system, there's no place to put the ever-growing population of students who all have rights to attend the same TWO schools.[/quote]

This only applies to Deal, Wilson and JKLMM schools, 5 elementary and one middle and one high school. [b] The rest of DCPS are underenrolled with very few exceptions like Ross.[/b][/quote]

Where are you getting that? I just went through all the elementary schools in Ward 1 to see where they're under-enrolled.

Bancroft has no available seats for any grade.
Bruce Monroe has one seat for 5th grade.
Cleveland has one seat in 4th grade and 3 in 5th grade.
Cooke has a handful of seats per grade available for kindergarten, 3rd grade and 5th grade.
Marie Reed has a few seats per grade for 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Tubman has 1 seat for 5th grade.

I get that the Ward 3 schools have no seats available for any grade, but these are hardly empty buildings. People attend them. What was your point?[/quote]

This much crowding in these schools is relatively new.  Ward 5 schools are still hovering in the 60% capacity though Burroughs may be able to pull that up this year.  I think many other schools in the upper ward 7 area are also way below capacity and many of the middle and high schools are way below capcity. [/quote]

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