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Set it up so there's HB campus 1 and HB campus 2. A single lottery and you get assigned to a campus randomly. It will fill.[/quote]

So, how does this work year 1?  Are we talking a real HB with middle and HS seats?

6th grade and Freshmen are easy -- lottery as usual, assign to a campus.  All existing 7th/8th and Soph/Jr/Sr's in the program get randomly selected to have to go to the new campus? (cue the ranting and raving about my special community).  Encourage families of non-entry year kids to apply if they want to and are up for the risk of not getting into the "real" HB (because, yes, that's how it will be perceived, esp. when the "real" HB gets the super fancy building and CC gets a budget renovation).

Make both campuses a lot larger?  Adding an equal sized HB does not meet the seat deficit needs.

And we're still stuck with the fact that kids from these programs have to get back to Y/WL/W to compete for space in extracurriculars. And, in another 5 years we are still out of space for HS students because long-term we really do require a 4th HS.  Unless someone can break the lock on building that at the Kenmore site, CC seems to be the only land we can work with so any choice program at the CC needs to ultimately be a program within a larger HS with appropriate facilities.

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Spitballing here, but yes, I think 6-12. Then maybe we divert the MS expansion money here since this will provide MS seats. Year one, you give priority to all those who have been on the HB-1 waitlist, and then everyone else who enters the lottery is on equal footing. I don't know how they'd divide the students between 1 and 2, though. Randomly? If anything, this school will have more amenities than HB 1, and parking. And a lot of kids who go to HB do NOT go back to their home schools for sports. If varsity sports are their primary goal, they don't apply to HB for the most part. HB has its own arts and theater programs. I don't know how many HB students go back to their home schools for other extracurriculars.

Is this ideal? Nope. But we're way past ideal now and need to make some lemonade.[/quote]

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