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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to take those numbers about Deal and Hardy grads going to Wilson as minimum floors, rather than actual percentages. If you look at the DME materials, you will see 15% of Wilson grads have no data, and another 10% are from "other" schools. [b]Many of the "no data" students might be from Deal[/b], or the Deal boundary area. Many of the "other" category might have come from private schools in the Deal enrollment area. My point is that we have a big 25% swath of Wilson population that we don't know where they come from. That's a lot of uncertainty. [/quote]

I think we have to assume that the statement in bold is false, if we are to trust the data at all. It's the only data we have available. I would assume that the stated number from Deal to Wilson includes all students who came from Deal to Wilson. You are correct that it won't include all students in the Deal boundary, for example Woodley park residents who are IB for Deal but went to Adams before Wilson.

I think it is unrealistic to assume that a lot of people IB for Deal are going private or charter for MS but then attending Wilson, given that Deal has a Great Schools rating of 8/10 and Wilson 6/10. It would seem rational to do the opposite: Deal and then private for HS. If you can point to data then I'll stand corrected, but this seems unlikely to be a very common choice. [/quote]

I disagree. The "no data" group absolutely could include Deal or Hardy students. Here is what the sheet says:  "No data available on school attended last year" in the SY2012-13 column means that the 9th grader could not be matched to their school attended the year prior because either the students were new to the DC public education system in SY2013-14 or that there is administrative matching error."[/quote]

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