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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alice Deal enrollment over the years (with citations)

2009-10 - 866 (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/DCPS-School-Profile-DEAL-Jan-11.pdf)
2010-11 - 867 (http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/Learn-About-Schools/DCPS-Middle-School-Guide-2010-2011.pdf)
2011-12 - 1014 (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/deal2012.pdf)
2012-13 - 1165 (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/405_2013.pdf)
2013-14 - 1248 (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Deal+Middle+School)
2014-15 - 1305 (http://alicedeal.org/faq-the-deal-facts/)

The plan Mayor Bowser just "tweaked" was supposed to stem this flow.  I fear she may be pouring water back into the boat.[/quote]
Great, now why don't you post up the stats for Janney's growth? Want to know which of the Deal feeders is causing the Deal population to increase? Here's a hint, it's WOTP and leads the JKLM acronym. Lafayette too, although census predictions point to declining enrollment there over the next 10 years.  [/quote]
I don't get your point.  I don't really care how much each individual feeder school is bloating Deal's enrollment; I just want the enrollment to drop.  You seem like you might have some vendetta against Janney.  If your solution to Deal's overenrollment is for DCPS to build another middle school in Upper Northwest, I'm sure all the people who live there will be very happy.  But IMHO that seems like a poor approach.  Also, I suspect there would be a lot of opposition to what would be perceived as even more favors for Upper Northwest.

Look, the only viable answer to Deal overcrowding is to reduce enrollment.  And unless we're prepared to go to some crazy all-city lottery, that means neighborhoods with other middle school options will need to be shifted out of Deal's orbit.  For better or worse, that puts places like Crestwood and Shepherd Park on the bubble.  Whatever political favors got called in to press Mayor Bowser to tweak the plan are just temporary bandaids.  Real solutions, and real progress for our city's middle schools, just got delayed by another 5-10 years.[/quote]

Yeah because cutting the 12 kids from Crestwood and the 30 from Shepherd are going to make things A-ok at Deal. [/quote]

They are not 12+30 kids. They are (12+30) x 3 years = 126 kids -  THEY LOOK LIKE A LOT TO ME

And they are (12+30) x 5 years at Wilson = 210 kids - THEY LOOK LIKE A SUPER LOT TO ME

Plus it's much more than this given the demographic trends[/quote]

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