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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any instance in DCPS of a school that serves only grades 3-5? Pros, cons?[/quote]

Why even ask the question?  On its face, the idea is patently ridiculous.  Have you ever seen a automobile with only two gears, let alone seen anyone purchase one?

The root issue here is that DCPS came across some real estate, and now what to do with it?  "Let's build a new elementary school less than a mile away from four other (all roughly equidistant from the new real estate) ones!"  Who's with me?![/quote]

MCPS has several schools that are split into K-2 and 3-5 clusters, so it's not as ridiculous or unusual even in this area as you make it sound. (Nor, really, is the idea of having lots of elementary schools so near together -- my elementary school in MCPS in the 1980s was 1.3 miles from the nearest other elementary school, both of which fed the same intermediate school (which was only grades 7-8). They were in neighborhoods that connected to each other without crossing any major or minor arterial roads, so by suburban standards, they were really close.[/quote]

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