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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Renting but not occupying for IB purposes" has been around for ages. Ward 3 residents who live in-boundary for Hardy but prefer Deal have been doing this for more than a decade. Many Horace Mann and Key graduates have gone straight through Deal (rather than their in-boundary middle school, Hardy) thanks to this famous rich-person loophole. $1K for a tiny studio apt near Connecticut is all it takes. If DCPS could figure out a way to stop it, they would have by now. Those with kids at overcrowded Deal and Wilson should be coming up with ways to fix this problem because despite the fact that it only benefits the wealthy, DCPS has come up with absolutely no solutions.

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+1. And some of these tiny studios are 'passed down' among friends and families. [/quote]

Both Deal and Wilson have a large OOB population so I doubt this.[/quote]

Deal no longer has a giant OOB population - they're done to a little over a quarter.  [/quote]

The 'many' families doing this amounts to around 2 per school.  Seriously.  Both Mann & Key traditionally sent more kids to Latin - but it's getting harder to get into.  there's now a set of kids who split between Basis and Hardy - and the rest to privates or move.

Murch has around 25% OOB http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Murch+Elementary+School+%40+UDC , Hearst 52% OOB http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hearst+Elementary+School.

[Janney 92% IB http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Janney+Elementary+School; Lafayette 88% OOB http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Janney+Elementary+School]

Hardy is now at 23% IB http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School  
Deal is 70% IB http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Deal+Middle+School
Wilson 56% IB http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Woodrow+Wilson+High+School [/quote]

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