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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are not enough in-boundary kids attending these schools to warrant building a new middle school for 700 kids.

According to the DCPS school profiles:

Cleveland 317 enrolled 28% IB (89)
Garrison 250 enrolled 40% IB (100)
Ross 174 enrolled 74% IB (129)
Seaton 371 enrolled 36% IB (134)
Thomson 308 enrolled 57% IB (176)

So a total of 628 IB kids attend all 5 schools. All the other kids in the neighborhood are going somewhere else already. Even if those students are split evenly across grades (which I doubt), you're talking about maybe 80 IB kids looking to enter 6th grade every year. Minus the Cleveland Spanish track students who I believe have rights to go to a language MS.[/quote]

The idea was that if the middle school was separated from a failing high school and had its own principal rather than short-term APs, it would improve and more people would want to attend.[/quote]

Ross and Thomson wouldn't like this because now they have Francis-Stevens as their MS option and it's higher performing.
And there are very few parents for whom Shaw MS with a feed to Cardozo HS would be fine, but Cardozo MS with the same feeder is a non-starter. It makes no sense to build an entire middle school in hopes of attracting those few dozen families, when Banneker is in a crumbling building and Cardozo has plenty of room.[/quote]

I don't think Francis Stevens is guaranteed for those schools long term. They are supposed to feed into Shaw Middle.  So who knows what the city will do.  It's a problem for all of the feeders as far as I can tell but no one is being transparent which is a huge part of the problem.[/quote]

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