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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens in Middle School? Do people tend to stay put in the neighborhood and go to the public MS or go to private or move to MD?[/quote]

I'd be worried about getting zoned out of Deal in a few years.  [/quote]

This is silly. First, DC isn't going to take on another school zoning review for at least seven years--at the earliest. It took 40 years to get the last one; no way they do that again before they absolutely have to (no matter how crazy the overcrowding at some schools). And, second, [b]unless they build another new ES in Ward 3/4 or another new middle school[/b], there's no way Lafayette gets zoned out of Deal. It just won't happen.

To answer PP's question--yes, most kids at the Deal feeders go on to Deal. Something like 90% of the 5th grade classes at Murch, Lafayette, and Janney (the three largest feeders) continue at Deal.[/quote]

They are building a Ward 4 middle school - North Middle School - starting next year. I don't think Lafayette will be rezoned there anytime soon, but the school is coming.

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Exactly.  And you know DCPS desperately wants to break down the artificial barrier presented by Rock Creek Park.  One way would be to pull a WOTP elementary to the new MS.  I'd say it is actually more probably, that not.  Lafayette makes the most geographic sense in that regard.[/quote]

It's quite funny to call Rock Creek Park an "artificial" barrier. The racial segregation is artificial, but RCP is a very natural barrier, and imposing a commute across the park on an elementary school is an unnecessary hardship. And I say this as someone who does this commute everyday for a charter, but that is my choice.[/quote]

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