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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]

Why are you limiting the calculations to in-bounds kids?  Makes no sense.  All kids, whether OOB or IB, would feed to Shaw Middle.  OOB does not mean we live far away or aren't in the neighborhood.  We just were lucky enough to get into one of our preferred options.  My IB is not really any closer than the school that my child now attends OOB.[/quote]

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