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[quote=Anonymous][quote]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. [/quote]

This is a pretty important point that I think a lot of people currently set for Wilson are forgetting.  The cohort now competing for PS3 - K seats outside of Ward 3 are filling schools that were previously never discussed among middle class parents.  Powell, Tubman, Bruce-Monroe, Barnard were all dismissed as low-performing and now they have wait lists.

These are all kids who presumably will raise the quality of those schools if they choose to stay.  It seems hard for people to believe that the Ward 3-type of family exists outside of Ward 3 (and even outside of Mt. Pleasant), but they do.  You can say their presence won't last because parents will move, but a better question is what would make them stay?

Being one of those parents, I can say that having a middle school that we can look forward to our child attending would keep us at Powell until 5th grade.  Right now, our options are CHEC or one of the nearby PS-8 education campuses.  None of those look good, so we're exploring every option except staying put.  One of the options we're exploring is renting or buying in Ward 3, so we'd be further emptying EOTP schools and adding to the Deal/Wilson overcrowding.

There are a lot of strollers in my neighborhood and a lot of bidding wars for newly renovated homes, meaning there are a lot more potential DCPS students - from higher SES families - coming behind us.

If they could get MacFarland back up and running to keep families here through elementary school, I'm very optimistic that there would be enough students EOTP to fill Roosevelt without worrying about enticing Ward 3 families.   But they have to start building those schools/programs now, before parents depart for other parts of the city or charters.

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