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The data shows that Deal sent about 50% of its graduating class to Wilson last year, despite being a feeder to Wilson. SWW is one fifth the size of Wilson, but it takes its share of Deal grads.

Which, I think, proves that you cannot just add the Deal and Hardy classes to predict the Wilson class, my original point.

You should discount the Deal class by a factor of 0.5, and the Hardy class by whatever factor, to make a proper estimate.

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But what that shows is the vulnerability of Wilson to small swings in popularity.  If Deal goes to 60% Wilson is crushed. The big increase in enrollment at Deal was due more to increase popularity than increased population in the in-boundary schools.[/quote]

If Deal goes to 60% that's 30-40 more students at Wilson. Let's not get carried away.

I am not intending to insult Wilson but there really are a lot of people who, even today after all its improvement, don't see it as an acceptable option and plan to do something else after Deal or other MS. The data clearly support this. Many of these people live in Wards 2 and 3 (the expensive wards).

Yet there are others in those wards and in other wards who consider it a privilege to attend Wilson. So let's not cut out these others, who would jump at the chance to go to Wilson, just to solve an overcrowding crisis that hasn't even happened yet and is predicated on the assumption that a lot of Sidwell, Walls or Bethesda-bound parents are suddenly going to come to Jesus and enroll at Wilson. Let's solve that problem if and when we come to it.

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