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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This makes zero sense to me. Drop PK, for which at risk students should be the target, to accommodate at risk in upper grades? Many of the desirable schools take few, if any, OOB kids in upper grades. So you'd never get to the 25% MSDC is proposing unless you're adding seats in all upper grades to reach this % threshold, whatever it is. If it's 25%, and you are talking Janney, cutting the two PK classes isn't magically going to create enough classrooms to up the school population overall 25% which is what you would have to do to get 25% at risk since it's easy to presume they are at nearly zero currently AND you've cut your nose off to spite your face because now no one is going to get PK4 services, not even the at risk kids you are purporting to help. [/quote]

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