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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that parents want to rate and rank their children into a public school system.  You can't do that at any private school.  When I hear parents say they want gifted and talented programs, it is all well and good.  But there's not enough of gifted and talented students in one grade level to make a school viable.

To make any school viable you would need about 500 kids tested per entry grade level, just to weed out 250.  That ain't happening in this city, I don't care how many strollers you see at the park.

It ain't happening.  No way, no how. 
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I think you could probably 500 kids to apply total. When you look at the waitlists for hard to get into DCPS schools they number in the hundreds.

I don't know why you think you need 250 kids per grade level. The average DCPS elementary school is 300-400 from PK-5th grade. If you were having the school start at 2nd or 3rd grade (which is where the MOCO and FCPS programs begin) you'd have a school with maybe 50-75 kids per grade level, so 150-225 if it was a 3-5th grade program. Maybe you'd make it an education campus and have it go from 3rd-8th grade. 
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