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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sadly, I'm not sure DC will need more school capacity until they get the crime problem under control.  We're losing residents now.[/quote]
The DC population situation is someone teeter tottering. But DCPS HS enrollment was up considerably last school year. 
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

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Something like 10 percent of the students at JacksonReedWilson in fact reside in Maryland,[/quote]

Gonna need to show your work here.[/quote]

Ask the kids who they know who lives in "Ward 9."[/quote]

If this is true, it would really tick me off that an overstretched school is hosting Marylanders.[/quote]
It’s not[/quote]

It is true.  And it’s still true at Duke Ellington.  DC doesn’t have a lot of incentive to ferret out the residency cheats because some DC government “workers” who reside in Maryland are among the offenders who send their kids to DC schools.[/quote]
It is funny that you think J-R is so incredible that people would go through all of that trouble to go there from Maryland.[/quote]

Students aren’t sneaking in from the Whitman and BCC districts. JRW is a mediocre school but still better than most public secondary schools in DC and PG county.  [/quote]

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