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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe one option for a school like Shepherd Elementary where the neighborhood is not supplying enough elementary students to keep the school occupied (only 34% in-bounds) is to convert it to a PK-8 school.  The school infrastructure is already in place.  If DCPS sends in some middle school teachers, them Shepherd could use its extra building capacity to truly serve that neighborhood's population of students all the way through high school.  Could be implemented very quickly since the school and neighborhood infrastructure is already in place.

I know that's an outside-the-box idea, and people will probably hate it on principle.  But what's wrong with it?[/quote]

There are lots of young families moving in who are sending--or planning to send--their kids to Shepherd.  The last two years, PK3 has been all IB, and IB kids have been waitlisted each year.  They're adding a 2nd PK3 class next year to meet demand.  Given this, the above idea probably doesn't make sense.[/quote]

Except there are also those of us who tried Shepherd for prek3 and prek4 and truly wish we could but no longer see it as a path for our children past that.  And yes, I I live in the neighborhood.  [/quote]

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