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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone remember when Wilson was inferior and they had the same demographics?  The creating of Banneker, SWW and McKinley was to do actually what?  Surely not to offer a better alternative to Wilson's perpetual over-crowding.  This offer to siphon Wilson students to send them off to oblivion is laughable. Might as well create the all powerful high school for athletes only too.

[b]The goal to offer Roosevelt as an alternative site for the over-crowding at Wilson is such bullsh*t.  Again there's not enough of y'all to make a school self-sufficient, it is just that plain and simple.[/b]

The first couple of posts had a parent say that a commute from Wilson to Roosevelt would be a nightmare.  I honestly LOL considering the schools are more accessible with free transportation now than ever before.  Helicopting parents cracks me up.[/quote]

According to the January City Paper article on Roosevelt, there are nearly as many kids who live in the Roosevelt boundary at Wilson as there are at Roosevelt.  Exaggerating a bit to prove a point, making Roosevelt viable would fix Wilson's overcrowding all by itself (1700-200=1500=Wilson's capacity).

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2014/01/30/ten-charts-that-explain-d-c-s-school-problems/
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 Most D.C. students don't attend their neighborhood school. In fact, Wilson High School is the only neighborhood high school attended by more than two in five of the public-school, high school-age students living within its boundary. There's sometimes a perception that charter schools are drawing away most of a neighborhood school's potential students. In fact, the top five schools enrolling Roosevelt-boundary students are all traditional public high schools or application-based public high schools. Here are the top schools attended by the 1,906 high schoolers living within the Roosevelt boundary:

[b]Roosevelt: 301
Wilson: 209[/b]
Columbia Heights Education Campus: 202
McKinley Tech: 124
Coolidge: 110
Banneker: 85
Perry Street Prep Public Charter School: 81
E.L. Haynes Public Charter School: 79
Ellington School of the Arts: 69
Capital City Public Charter School: 65
School Without Walls: 63

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