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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][QUOTE]Why medium-level academies? How rigorous could you really expect classes aimed at DC CAS proficient students to be? [/QUOTE]
DC already has six selective specialized public high schools -- not sure it's politically possible to make the case that we need more.

Everybody seems to want to have their neighborhood school be test-in -- see also the proposals for test-in schools at Dunbar and Ward 7. This proposal has to be something different. If DC adds another fully test-in school, it's likely to be in a part of the city without a specialized program, e.g. east of the river.[/quote]

There were only 1243 proficient and advanced students in all the DCPS HS that are 1) not Wilson, 2) non-application, and 3) not Phelps.

How many students will it take to turn Roosevelt or Cardozo or other EoTP school into a successful "magnet" HS.  How many proficient students will a new HS program need to attract to move the program into the "Quality" program.  And where will these students come from?

Eastern HS has the next best proficient and advanced scores after Wilson of the Comp HS and is Metro accessible.   You might put some energies into continuing the vision of turning Eastern into the "next Wilson".

The breakdown of proficient students: Wilson 1028 students (of 1696), application HS 2000 (of 2,230), all other Comp. HS  1243 (of 5154)

School  	audited enrollment	%proficient #proficient 
[b]Comprehensive High Schools[/b]
Wilson HS	 1,696 	61%	1028

Cardozo EC	 681 	26%	 178
Coolidge HS	 433 	31% 	135
Roosevelt HS at MacFarland	 438 	20% 	89
Dunbar HS	 628 	17% 	109
Woodson H D HS	 762 	20% 	150
Anacostia HS	 751 	19% 	143
Ballou HS	 678 	16% 	109
Eastern HS	 783 	42% 	330

[b]Application Only and Specialty Programs[/b]			
Benjamin Banneker HS (Application Only)	 430 	98%	 422
Ellington School of the Arts (Application Only)	 541 	78% 	421
School Without Walls HS (Application Only)	 585 	98% 	575
McKinley Technology HS (Application Only)	 674 	86%	 582
Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering HS	 319 	45%	 145

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Great post, I like numbers.

Presumably, this whole exercise is about Wilson being overcrowded, so some of the students would come from there.  We know from upthread that 201 Wilson students already live in the Roosevelt boundary. If the program were good enough, maybe DCPS could win some students back from the charters.

How many students are needed? 500? Enough to fill the new building when added to the current enrollment.

Eastern is good but it is a ways away.  I did that commute for three years and it is a BEAST.[/quote]

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