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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS favors the larger school models because it’s less expensive to run a larger building with everyone squeezes in. The per student funding model is ineffective for finding the extracurriculars and extrapograms of smaller schools. Although large schools are well funded and can afford paraeducators, counselors and more foreign languages but only spots for basketball, soccer, baseball, band, choir etc, so a lot of kids get lost in the system.

I don’t know the answer to this but the outside climate is now coming into schools and it’s becoming dangerous to be a teacher. We have to do a better job for the struggling kids. 
And there needs to be more enrichment for bright kids. It’s such a mess and now I’m stressed out again.:([/quote]

Here's a list of DCPS high schools with their enrollments:

Washington Metropolitan HS	196
Ron Brown College Preparatory High School	209
Luke Moore Alternative HS	251
Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering HS	260
Coolidge HS	310
Anacostia HS	379
H.D. Woodson HS	488
Duke Ellington School for the Arts	566
School Without Walls SHS	592
Dunbar HS	617
Eastern HS	769
McKinley Technology HS	861
Roosevelt HS	1213
Ballou HS	1375
Wilson HS	1829

A quick Google search tells me that the average high school size in the US is 750 students, so only three of them could be considered "large" -- Roosevelt, Ballou and Wilson. For an urban high school even Wilson isn't that large. [/quote]

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