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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know the percentage of Crestwood families who actually send their children to Deal.  It is my perception that most send their children to privates and maybe some charters.  It also seems that those who do attend DCPS would be more likely to attend Shepherd than West. Might this be why Crestwood was given the boot as opposed to MP?

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I don't have rough numbers but my guess based only on anecdotal evidence and experience is that the percentage is not radically different between Crestwood and Mt. Pleasant -- though I expect Mt. Pleasant has significantly more kids. But, Crestwood got booted because Crestwood's elementary schools -- Powell and West -- unlike Bancroft and Shepherd, are not Deal feeders. Also, the Advisory Committee hopes to establish high-performing programs at MacFarland and Roosevelt. Crestwood's 16th St. boundary is only 2 or 3 (depending how you count) blocks from 13th Street where Roosevelt is located (MacFarland is just behind it in the same block). I can see the sense in the proposal, but the problem is the transition. If MacFarland and Roosevelt can be brought up close to Deal/Wilson levels, everyone wins. That's a big "if". DCPS can ease a lot of minds by dispatching several Brinks trucks full of cash aimed at creating top notch programs at those schools. But, nobody expects that to happen.
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I can't speak to Crestwood kids' attendance - harder to say because the neighborhood boundaries do not line up with any one elementary school boundary, in contrast to Mt Pleasant which lines up with Bancroft almost completely.

The majority of Bancroft graduates attend Deal, and almost all of those graduates in recent years have been low income and latino. Unlike Crestwood, Mt Pleasant has a significant low-income population. This is clear from the data in the DME materials, which you can consult in the sticky thread, and DCPS data. You can also see in the DME individual school documents how many public school children in boundary.

I am less sure about the Mt Pleasant kids who do not attend Bancroft, although my understanding is that many of them do attend Deal after whatever ES option they choose.

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