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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just for the record, SWS is not in that boat. The waitlist remains super long and [b]neighborhood people choose it over other highly sought after schools.[/b] [/quote]

Not really. In-boundary Cap Hill parents almost always choose Brent (at least before this school year/the demolition), Maury and, increasingly, Ludlow and Payne, over SWS. Cluster parents tend to go with SWS over Peabody if they get a spot, true, mainly because Watkins continues to struggle.  Same with Miner and JO Wilson parents.[/quote]

Looking at the enrollments by boundary data doesn't give you a full picture because they don't report when fewer than 10 students attend a given school, but it's still pretty interesting for SWS. For SY19-20 through SY24-25:

Brent never had 10 or more students at SWS.

At its highest, Maury had 17 in SY20-21, but dropped below 10 in SY24-25.

LT has consistently had between 41-44 at SWS. 35 in SY21-22.

Payne had 29 in SY19-20. That number has slowly but steadily dropped to 22 in SY24-25.

Peabody has consistently had between 40-42. Much lower numbers in SY19-20 and SY24-25 but from another thread I'm fairly confident it's a data issue related to how the Peabody/Watkins boundary is defined.

JO has consistently had between 21-28 at SWS. SY24-25 had 32 but thinking that's just a blip related to renovation.

Miner has consistently had between 26-32 at SWS. 23 in SY21-22.

Wheatley has climbed steadily from 11 in SY21-22 to 18 in SY24-25.

Other schools that have had up to 10-12 students over multiple years: Amidon-Bowen, Bunker Hill, Borroughs, Langdon.[/quote]

It makes sense that the Ludlow IB has a bunch of kids at SWS, because SWS is literally in the Ludlow IB. There's probably 1/3 of the zone who live closer to SWS than Ludlow Same issue at CHML, on the other side of Ludlow's zone. As a complete aside, it has always struck me as crazy that DCPS set up TWO DIFFERENT citywide lottery schools in a zone as small as Ludlow. The conspiracy theorist in me has always wondered if it was intentional, because Ludlow had a history of being an academically rigorous majority AA school that attracted many MC AA families through the lottery (teacher's kids, city employees' kids, etc) and the principal at the time those schools were set up liked it that way. She was actively hostile to white IB families at the open houses and told our neighbors back in 2014 that the school was "not for them." The rapid swing toward IB participation at Ludlow is basically only within the last 10 years and is a true testament to the Ludlow principal from 2015-2020 and just how good the Ludlow teachers are.[/quote]

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