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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 16 DCPS and charter schools 10% or less at-risk students now (based on the 2018-19 enrollment audit). Adult-ed or alternative programs are not included.

A question mark means that there are fewer than 10 at-risk students enrolled, so a percentage cannot be calculated. https://osse.dc.gov/node/1306796

Brent 4.2% at risk
Deal 6.7% 
Eaton 6.0%
Eliot Hine 4%
Hearst 6%
Janney ?
Key ?
Lafayette 2.8%
Maury 2.2%
Mann ?
Murch 4.1%
Oyster-Adams 10%
Peabody ?
Ross ?
School within a School ?
Stoddert 3.4%

BASIS DC 8.5%
LAMB 9%
Lee Montessori 10%
Mundo Verde 9.1%
Washington Latin MS 6.2%
Yu Ying PCS 4.4%

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Thanks for posting this, it's good to have some real numbers to work on. I went to the link you posted and worked with the numbers. I got 15 schools that are currently below 10%, including five with fewer than 10 students. They are:
Brent Elementary School
Deal Middle School
Eaton Elementary School
Hearst Elementary School
Janney Elementary School
Key Elementary School
Lafayette Elementary School
Mann Elementary School
Maury Elementary School
Murch Elementary School @ UDC
Peabody Elementary School (Capitol Hill Cluster)
Roosevelt STAY High School
Ross Elementary School
School-Within-School @ Goding
Stoddert Elementary School

For simplicity's sake i just treated the schools below 10 as if they had zero. Those 15 schools currently have 7696 students and 281 at-risk. To get them all to 10% they'd have to have 770 students at-risk, or 489 more.

Overall DCPS has 20,963 at-risk students, 45% of the student body. Those 489 represent slightly over 2% of the students at risk. I'm sure that for those kids it would make a big change in their lives, but it's hard to see how this initiative makes a meaningful dent in the problem.  
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Start small. Go from there. Like you said, ittiudk make a big change in the lives of 600+ at-risk kids. That alone should make it worth doing. That it wouldn't be a huge sea change in any one School is a feature not a bug.[/quote]

The point isn't that it's not a sea change in any one school, it's that it's not a meaningful solution to the problem of concentrated pAdd anoverty. [/quote]

That's fine.  There are many pieces to this puzzle.  This is something we can do relatively easily, and we should.  [/quote]

Why do you think it is easy to add that many students to schools that already have trailers? [/quote]

Because it isn't that many kids and the upper grades at the WOTP elementaries see incredible attrition from high income families.[/quote]

Because the point is to call their bluff.  If it's that crowded, drop preschool or change the boundary.  Or is crowding only a problem when it's poor kids?[/quote]

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