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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think creating geographic proximity is the main objective of DCPS.   The majority of people reject it ( hence the high Out-of-bounds and charter percentages). And they reject it because a good education shouldn’t be dependent on your zip code.  So how close a school is to the tenth of a mile is irrelevant.

Engaged parents want schools where there are other engaged families.  Unfortunately these families aren’t evenly distributed across the city and they can’t all fit in Ward 3 schools.  If you want MacFarland or another middle school to be a viable Deal alternative you need to encourage a large number of educated engaged families to make the move.   Sending Bancroft, a Tiitle 1 school that’s majority first generation families, to MacFarland won’t create that tipping point.  There simply aren’t enough of those families to affect MacFarland and the few that exist won’t likely make the move since they know there won’t be a large cohort there.

Change needs to be big to make a difference.  Moving a giant school like Lafayette that is full of engaged families could actually make a difference though.[/quote]

Bancroft is only 38% at-risk. Oyster is only 11% at-risk. http://dcpsdatacenter.com/fy18_amended.html

Moving both of those schools to MacFarland and Roosevelt together would make a notable difference in the at-risk percentage of those schools. [/quote]

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