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[quote=Anonymous]PP who is asking about this - it's a good question.

There are some charter elementary schools that also don't take any new kids after a certain grade. The charter school board now says that they are generally against this practice, but some (older) schools have been able to keep it in place.

Historically, LAMB was notorious for this - they accepted LOTS of PK3 kids and then no one at any other grade, and would experience a good bit of attrition so their 5th grade class was tiny compared to their PK3 and PK4. Yu Ying is another that doesn't backfill - if you look at the number of students in K vs. 4th, you'll see a decrease.

For a while, MV didn't take kids after K - I think they agreed to do so as part of the expansion to the new campus and now they definitely need to because of attrition. But it's reasonable to conclude that accepting 4th or 5th graders with no Spanish language background into a dual language school makes it harder for MV to serve everyone. (DCPS requires kids coming into a dual language school in upper grades to pass a language competency test but charters aren't allowed to do that.)

Schools that don't backfill seats have a much more "controlled" student (and testing) population than schools that take new kids every year.[/quote]

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