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Most of the people that attend school in W3 do not live outside of ward 3. [/quote]
These are the numbers I got from Mary Cheh's office:

Percent in Ward 3 
Deal MS	37% 
Eaton ES	32% 
Hearst ES	21% 
Janney ES	89% 
Key ES	93% 
Mann ES	94% 
Murch ES	77% 
Oyster-Adams BS	26% 
Stoddert ES	66% 
Wilson HS	21%

Overall 48% live in Ward 3. They're not necessarily OOB, many school boundaries cross ward boundaries. A lot of Ward 3 kids go to SWW in Ward 2 or Lafayette in Ward 4. [/quote]

There are not that many people that live in ward 3 that go to SWS. The important part of the "most" part should be how many public school kids in ward 3 attend school in ward 3. I think that number would be close to 80%[/quote]

That is misleading because some of these schools include other Wards in their boundaries. In other words, "not in Ward 3 =/= OOB. I know you were specifically responding to the Ward 3 statement, but others reading may not realize that the boundaries of Wilson, Deal, Lafayette (missing for the list), and Murch (until the boundary change, but has Ward 4 students grandfathered), and Oyster Adams include other Wards.[/quote]

Some of those numbers also seem off -- Key & Mann are about 85% IB (basically all kids not in Ward 3)...  But Wilson's feeders includes the Ward 2 kids at Stoddert & Hyde (and much of Eaton is also not in Ward 3), Ward 4 kids Lafayette, (and the current classes at Wilson do not have many IB kids from Mann & Key for instance (that dynamic is changing the future IB/OOB patterns in the coming classes via Hardy) so that lower # shouldn't be that surprising [/quote]
If you look at the Fact Sheet Appendix that someone posted upthread, you can see the percentage of IB public school students who are using their IB school, and also the percentage of IB vs OOB students at each school.
https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/SY15-16_Citywide%20School%20Fact%20Sheets%20Appendices_10.14.16.xlsx

For example, for Deal, 78% of the public school students who live IB for Deal are attending Deal.  As a whole, Deal is 63% IB, and 37% OOB.  68% of the public school students living IB for Wilson are attending Wilson.  As a whole, Wilson is 50% IB, and 50% OOB.  For Murch, 88% of the IB public school students attend Murch, yet 39% of Murch is OOB students.

Interestingly, Appendix 2 seems to say that 57% of students in Ward 3 attend private school.  That seems off to me, but if you trust it, you can do some math that combines this result with the other tables (at least for schools that do not straddle two or more wards).  [/quote]

Murch is 86% in boundary according to the Principal. http://murchschool.org/prospective-parents/faqs/  
Murch is not 39% OOB, unless they are counting the kids who are grandfathered in the boundary change as OOB. [/quote]

That spreadsheet (appendix 4) -- boundary participation is the # of kids in the boundary area for the school who attend that school (ie. 88% of kids who live in the boundary for Murch who go to public schools go to Murch (the other presumably go to charters or other schools OOB or other situations like a special service/ed program).  The next column is the IB % of the school's enrollment.  The school profiles still also say Murch is 61% IB for last year - that could be counting the new boundaries: http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Murch+Elementary+School [/quote]

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