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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
In other words, convert OOB feeder status from a right to a preference.[/quote]
Correct.  And quite frankly, I would suggest all admissions is a preference capped by capacity, even IB.  In other words, if we somehow reach the point where there are 450 IB students vying for 400 spots at Deal, then I'd say those 450 IB students get put in a lottery, and the 50 IB students who lose the lottery may be forced to go somewhere else.

That might be pretty unpopular with the IB families, but I think capacity limits need to hold firm.  If the neighborhood demographics suggest the IB enrollment will exceed capacity consistently over several years, then maybe that's a situation that calls for a boundary shift.  I think if you start allowing some groups to exceed the capacity but not others, you're just asking for trouble.[/quote]

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