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I think understand your point about principals wanting to meet enrollment targets, and then admitting OOB students from a waitlist when existing students (IB or OOB) leave unexpectedly.  I suppose I don't have a problem with your suggestion in that situation of DCPS just cutting them some slack and allowing them to miss enrollment targets.  But I also don't see much problem in letting them pull other students (presumably mostly OOB) from the waitlist in that situation.  So for example (totally made-up numbers), if Deal is expecting 400 students in its 7th grade class, but 50 students leave for private or MoCo over the summer, what's the problem with adding 50 replacement students from the waitlist?  The resulting class will still be only 400, so it won't change the total number of students in the feeder pipeline for that grade.  
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The underlying problem is that the Deal feeders have more capacity than Deal does. If the feeders are full and everyone who attends goes on to Deal, you have a problem. If there is attrition, maybe there isn't a problem -- unless you admit more kids to make up for the attrition.

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My suggestion would be to order access priority like this: IB, OOB feeder, OOB non-feeder.  So when Deal is arranging its 6th grade class, the IB students get first priority for spots.  If there are any open spots after the IB students are slotted, then they go by lottery to OOB students at Deal's elementary feeders.  Then if there are any spots left after that, they go to OOB students who are not at Deal's elementary feeders.  If students drop out of the Deal pool over the summer, then DCPS fills those spots in the same priority order: IB waitlist, OOB feeder waitlist, OOB non-feeder waitlist.  It's not really "eliminating" OOB feeder rights entirely, but rather just saying their OOB feeder rights are subject to capacity limitations.

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In other words, convert OOB feeder status from a right to a preference.
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