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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy's enrollment around 500 kids and growing.  If most of those students go to the new high school, then that is more than 600 high school students.  How will that work in a new school with 1000 seats and 500 reserved for at risk students?  Will the number of OOB seats decline as Hardy's needs grow?  Will Hardy students have rights to some other high school if they cannot get into MacArthur?[/quote]

It’s probably going to be implemented in the form of the lottery preference for at-risk. The number of seats for OOB will certainly decline as more in boundary kids attend the new HS.

But, as someone else pointed out, it’s going to be very difficult for at-risk kids in other parts of the city to attend this HS without a dedicated and direct form of transportation. It’s all for show, imho.[/quote]

They carefully in the public statements talk about reserving a 'set of seats' for at risk, and have some distance between that and the 500 or however many aren't filled by Hardy kid seats.[/quote]

Right, which tells me that they will have a set of seats that’s an at-risk set aside that they will try to fill before allowing general OOB lottery seats. I’m cool with that.

My guess is that this set aside will decrease over time IF in-boundary kids fully fill the new high school. But that’s a long way away. And, if that happens, it means the HS is wildly successful with nearby families. A shrinking pool of set-aside seats for at-risk kids also means that the new HS will have zero OOB seats in the general lottery. Again, because it’s so successful at drawing in-boundary families.

Unlike Wilson, the footprint of this new campus is very constrained. There really isn’t much more land to cannibalize for trailers or additional buildings. It’s surrounded on all sides by housing. So, realistically, 1000 students is a very hard cap on enrollment.[/quote]

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