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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So let’s assume Wells captures 2/3 of its current IB students.

Thats 180x3=540 total students.

Shepherd would add another ~100-120 and Lafayette another ~200.

So we have now exceeded the size of Hardy and are on the way to creating another Deal.[/quote]

I don't have any problem with an 800-kid middle school. That would allow enough teachers to run sports and extracurriculars like a school paper and a yearbook and an orchestra and a school play or two. There could be multiple sections of honors classes per grade, so that kids who wanted to take honors math but not ELA or vice versa could have easy scheduling, and there would be a large enough cohort of kids above grade level to fill such classes. They could have enough per-pupil funding for full-time librarians, assistant principals, art and music teachers, social workers, nurses, etc. and maybe even offer more than one foreign language. A 150-kid school like ITS' middle school or Capitol Hill Montessori or Elliot-Hine can't do all of that.[/quote]

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