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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you think will actually happen when these large classes of kids hit Wilson?  I have a 6th grader at Deal and the grade is about 575 kids.  The classes below this at all the feeder elementary schools are even larger.  So let's say that Deal hits 650/grade in a few years--totally reasonable and probably conservative projection.  
And there isn't room in the area privates (at least the ones in DC) to absorb any kids.  We tried applying my kid last year to a big 3 and they didn't take any kids from our JKLM.  None.  They took 10 kids overall and the public school kids they took (a whopping 5) were almost all (but 1) from Montgomery County. 
So what really happens?  Boundary change isn't going to happen within 3-5 years.  Does Wilson just get trailers?  How are they going to manage absolutely giant grades?  Any realistic thoughts on this?[/quote]

Right now 30% of students from Deal and Hardy do NOT go to Wilson. Some do go to private -- many others head to an application high school (SWW or Banneker).

DCPS is bulking up the application schools to attract yoru child and his/her classmates to give them more options. Banneker, McKinley (watch for PARCC scores to steadily increase as 2018-19 is the first year a 4 or 5 on PARCC was req'd to get into 9th).[/quote]

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