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PPs have hit it on the head.  I do numbers and geography for a living.  Deal and Wilson are simply victims of their own success.  Community should be very proud of how they've made these two schools so desirable.  
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The numbers don't support this conclusion. Rather, what's happening at Deal and Wilson is just the manifestation of a much broader demographic trend. After WWII, DC went through 50 years of declining population, and the student population fell every year from 1968 to 2008. The youth population started growing city-wide in 2008 and since then has added over 20,000 students and is projected to add another 25,000 in the next ten years. The under-18 population of the city is now growing faster than the overall population.

In Ward 3, the rebound started earlier. The youth population hit bottom in 2000 and has been growing for 20 years. The success of Deal and Wilson doesn't really have anything to do with anything the community has done to make them desirable, it's the demographics. [/quote]

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