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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward is irrelevant to DCPS catchments. [/quote] You are incorrect. Unless there is a programmatic reason (e.g., foreign language), feeder paths have been and are generally supposed to be within one's ward. In part, because council members are divided by wards and routinely advocate for the schools within their wards. As do ANCs -divided by wards, as well as stakeholder organizations (educational advocacy groups, etc), which are divided  by ward. This was, in fact, one of the explanations given to Crestwood when it was zoned out of Deal/Wilson (now J-R). [/quote]

This is not true at all. DCPS went 40 years -- 1973 to 2013 -- without systematic boundary reviews. In that time the ward boundaries moved four times, the city lost and then regained roughly 20% of its population. I participated in the 2013 boundary review, there was never any discussion of ward boundaries.

If anything, when it's time to redraw ward boundaries after the census sometimes school attendance boundaries are given as a consideration for where ward boundaries should be moved. But it rarely has much sway. [/quote]

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