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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The building was designed for 1550 students.  This trend has been happening for years - educating  more students for less money from downtown. All when costs are rising and teacher salaries stagnant. Notice in this article that Bargeman who is now principal  after Martin was interim principal  in 2015.

https://ggwash.org/view/37747/dcps-plans-to-give-wilson-high-school-less-money-to-serve-more-students[/quote]

The current permanent building capacity is 1840, last years enrollment was 1872.
https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Appendix%20A%20-%20DCPS%20SY2019-20%20Enrollment%20Data.xlsx
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Permanent capacity in 2015 was 1700.  No space has been added to the school since then as far as I know, and the halls and stairwells are certainly no wider.  How did the increase capacity by 140 with no construction?

https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Copy%20of%20DCPS%20Enrollment%20and%20Utilization%2003%2004%2016%20Final.pdf[/quote]

Even if you use 1700, the school is not over enrolled by 700. The school could have opened more classrooms from existing areas without adding more physical space. Are you really saying DC is lying and circumventing DC Fire Code?

Stop exaggerating.[/quote]

I'm a different poster from the 700 poster.  There are media reports from around 2015 that say the school was designed (post-renovation) for 1500 kids, so I looked up DCPS old estimates of capacity.  When you bring up fire codes, you're either being disingenuous or you haven't spent any time looking at this data.  Trailers and other temporary measures count in "permanent capacity" for DCPS schools.  This has nothing to do with fire codes, which would be per structure.  I'm sure that the school turned offices and maybe broom closets into classrooms, and they likely removed labs and teacher work areas so that they could cram in more desks.  For DCPS, that counts as adding capacity to the building.  But, none of that makes the halls wider or the stairways safer.  And, as they've "added capacity" and increased enrollment, they've repeatedly cut the per-student budget.

I spent time in the school when my kid attended pre-pandemic, and I found it extremely claustrophobic and borderline dangerous trying to go up and down the stairs.   I'm a large adult man (6'2", 220), so I wasn't getting bumped into.  If I were a short, 115 pound kid, I'd have been less happy about trying to move through the crowd.

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