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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Building Capacity is: 1200
They currently have over 1500 students enrolled

I do not care how many demountables there are - 
you have 300 extra kids in the lunch room / in the halls / in the stairwells.

It is a problem and DCPS does not care.     They will keep pressuring for OOB  (They accepted last year)

Parents who have the means will put their children in private - when their child complains that they can't eat lunch b/c there is no place to sit and eat.   The stress is real for these kids.  
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Have you seen the projections in the DME's Master Facilities Plan? 2108 students by SY 2017-18. That's eight years away.[/quote]

I think you mean 2027-2028?

Do not forget there is a boundary review scheduled for 2022-23. [/quote]

Yes, 27-28.

Let's think about that boundary review. According to the projections, Deal will be 538 over capacity. The three next closest middle schools to Deal -- Hardy, MacFarlane, and Adams -- will all be over capacity, by a combined 273.  So those four schools will have 800 kids who have to go somewhere else. The two next closest are Brookland and McKinley, which both will have space, combined about 400 seats. Then there's Stuart-Hobson, which will be 112 seats short. The next two schools are Jefferson and Eliot-Hine, which both have capacity, about 220 seats.

West of the Anacostia there are nine middle schools. Five of them will be over capacity, by a combined 923 seats. Four will have space, a combined 673 seats. Every middle school in that part of the city would have to change its boundaries, and you still wouldn't have enough seats.

West of North Capitol Street the middle schools will be short a combined 800 seats.

It's not going to be like 2012 where they could move Eaton from Deal to Hardy and call it good. Every boundary is going to have to change, and some by a lot. It may not be possible to keep boundaries that physically include the school.

I'm really not sure that DC's political culture can handle it. It may be easier to go all-lottery. [/quote]

Except cities that went all lottery called it a failure and are going back to neighborhood school. It makes much more sense to build more schools. DCPS doesn’t have the will to do either, yet. But who knows what will happen in 10 years. [/quote]

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