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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The DCPS data shows only about 150 elementary age kids who attend DCPS schools. This seems like an absurdly small number and is due to overall small size of boundary and that thee is a lot of non-residential space in the boundary. Of the 150 about 50 +/- currently attend Hearst.  The school's capacity is about 300 and that will remain the same even after the renovation.  Given the fact other nearby schools are bursting at the seams with primarily IB kids it makes sense to me to expand the Hearst boundaries to better serve the overall neighborhood.  I certainly understand the Murch posters point about having made plans around a specific school and I would expect them to make a strong case for grandfathering of all current Murch families , I would likely do the same in her shoes.

As for the current overall low IB % there is a bit of the law of small numbers at play here.  First 18% is an average across PK - 5.  The IB % at the lower grades is meaningfully higher. And is overall such a small school - a relatively small number of additional kids will move the IB % quite a bit. For example if all 50 current IB kids are still at Hearst plus the 25 IB PK 4s that jumps the % to 26 in 1 year (75 IB as a % of total enrollment

Another point which I actually don't know the answer to is whether or not the Autism class is included in the numbers used to calculate IB.  These kids are on IEPs so they can come from all over the city - I think it's about 20 or less kids.

So all of the IB discussion is interesting but the thing I find more compelling about the school is that everyone - principal, teachers, parents - I have encountered there over the last two years is fully committee and engaged and focused on continuing the schools momentum 'up and to the right'.

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Actually the number is only 103 school-aged public school students.  Hearst's boundaries are extraordinarily small.  Even if every one of those kids went to the school the school would only be 1/3 inbounds.  That its PK4 class is over 50% IB suggests that is capturing a large percentage if not almost all of the younger aged kids.

Moreover, who cares?  Hearst is an incredibly close-knit community that values all of the folks that come to it from all over the city.[/quote]

The number that is missing is how many in-boundary kids there are total. I'm sure DCPS has that number but they seem loathe to reveal it. Without that number we can't judge which of two competing hypotheses is true:
A) The number of IB kids is low because there is a small number of kids living IB.
B) The number of IB kids is low because there is a higher than average number not going to public school.[/quote]

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