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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, forgot to include the link I was looking at: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Thanks PP! For 1, I'm just puzzled about how they are not expecting for so very few students out of 200+ 8th graders at Hardy to go MacArthur. I was thinking at least half of Hardy would go to MacArthur, say 100. Then we have 185 'lotteried' kids now. 285 kids in 9th grade for a school with 800 students capacity seems a bit nuts. [/quote]

The answer is that majority of Hardy kids did not pick MA and went to JR.  This is very obvious since MA is a title 1 school.

The other answer is that did not list MA high and got in and went with a higher rank school.
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Will it still be Title 1 though as it morphs into a neighborhood school? Most of the kids from Hardy aren’t low income, as I understand it anyway.[/quote]

What makes you think that will happen? Look at Eastern for example. Still Title I after all these years.[/quote]

Are you saying the demographics and income levels of the Eastern catchment is even remotely similar to the MacArthur catchment?! If you are, you’re wrong. [/quote]

That's not what they are saying at all. They are saying that if Eastern served a representative sample of its neighborhood it would not be a Title I. Yet it is a Title I, because people have other options and aren't choosing Eastern. Much like how people zoned for MacArthur have other options. The demographics don't have to be identical to produce a similar result.[/quote]

I think it's a bad comparison for a different reason. Eastern has five feeders. MacArthur has one.

Getting collective buy in from MC/UMC families across five feeder schools that themselves have minimal buy in from MC/UMC families is a lot harder than getting collective buy in from MC/UMC families from one feeder school that already has a large MC/UMC population.[/quote]

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