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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Duke Ellington is located in what was once Western High School. It is a much more centralized location for a high school and on major bus routes. Let’s renovate the old Georgetown Day site to suit Ellington’s needs and turn the bazillion dollar, presumably gold-plated Western High building back over to a regular public high school.[/quote]

Duke Ellington is not really central and is on a bus route but not a major one but it would be a much better location than Foxhall for some school capacity so your broader point is a good one.

But that ship has sailed - DC spent what 250 million on Ellington and the school has all sorts of classrooms and studio spaces that will be of no use to a standard HS.

[b]Again there is excess capacity EOTP in recently renovated DCPS buildings and many of the students crowding Deal and Wilson are coming from EOTP - why should DC spend money in Foxhall when simpler and cheaper solutions exist?[/quote][b]

This is the million dollar question I would like DCPS to give an answer. The obvious is there, but they need to fix those schools first, but they are wasting money when the issues are not lack of facilities. [/quote]

Because they are looking for a long term solution and the excess capacity will not last.  Check the Master Facilities Plan.  It is stunning how fast schools EOTP were filling up before covid. [/quote]

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