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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The vast majority of people who want Immersion do so to avoid sub-par neighborhood schools, hence why so many non-native on the waitlist.[/quote]

That's certainly a common belief, particularly amongst those who are (depending on your perspective) either hostile to immersion or not in favor of immersion.  I don't know if there is any data to support or refute this hypothesis.[/quote]

And I don't think its true that the vast majority of immersion students come from "sub-par neigborhood schools."  For example, Key has 404 transfer students.  Of those 404, at least 245 are from what I think most people would agree are not sub-par neighborhood schools:  Discovery (19), Jamestown (18), Long Branch (90), Patrick Henry (32) and Taylor (86), plus the roughly 300 kids who are from the ASFS zone.  (See this document:  [url]https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Transfer-Report-2017-18.pdf[/url]).  Claremont has more kids from schools perceived by some as sub-par, but by now I think many are pretty comfortable with Abington (231 at Claremont) and Oakridge (92).[/quote]

Long Branch and Taylor attndees are about proximity, both those schools are at the far end of their zone. If you are going to metro anyways, it’s a no-brained.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ESZones_Letter_2018_web.pdf

Whoa, 19 from Discovery! Probably got vertigo from the slide.

What is more telling will be the long waitlist you are saying needs to be met. [/quote]

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