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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS doesn't care a whit about neighborhood schools. They care about capacity management system wide.  As a matter of fact, they're fine with any particular by-right school being 0% in-boundary, as Brent had become by the early 2000s.  DCPS principals are not evaluated on their ability to attract or retain in-boundary families. [b]Note that DCPS won't buy or build any new elementary schools in Upper NW[/b], although several of the JKLM schools are at close to 200% capacity, following the logic that there are DCPS elementary school buildings in Wards 7 and 8 standing two-thirds empty.

As long as voters aren't canning their city council members over neighborhood school issues, the city government isn't accountable to neighborhood parents shunning schools.  If you want to get DCPS' attention, you can vote Allen out, though that's unlikely to do any good.

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with the exception of Janney and Lafayette, virtually all of the NW schools have some OOB population.  Until these schools are filled with IB students there's little reason to build new capacity.  The better solution and the one upper NW roundly rejected is to alter the boundaries and use the existing capacity as a safety valve. . .  but that's a non-starter for the eastern part of Lafayette or Janney to move to Shepherd or Hearst[/quote]

Hearst, Janney, and  Stoddert no longer take OOB kids. Mann, Murch, Eaton, and Key only take a few at K. [/quote][/quote]

Hearst is 2/3 OOB students.  Seems like they must have let some OOB students in.  Even Stoddert is %25 OOB

Hearst didn't take any for 2016-17. The spaces available have been declining over the last few years. [/quote]

Right, but the days of OOB at those schools are over, and yet the overcrowding persists[/quote]

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