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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't the reason that it is 90 percent hill families that it is residual from when there was a boundary preference?  Before it became a citywide school with the move.  I tried the lottery back in 2008 I think and I would have happily driven my child across town from upper NW had we gotten in but no one from OOB actually got in. Even as a citywide school the sibling preference has to help maintain that dominance.  That said, I hope it will dissipate over time so don't think location of the student body should drive this decision.  Maybe it makes sense, however, to have it with proximity to SWS since families have to get their children there.  That may be the same answer but for a different reason.[/quote]

The plural of anecdote is not data, but as a parent with a child in a class that entered as a "city-wide school," our class is still overwhelmingly Hill-based.  Almost all of the non-sibling spots were taken by families who live on the Hill. I don't think it's going to change as fast as you think.  Also, all of the leading classes are made up of kids admitted under the boundary so, again, mostly Hill families.  I don't think it makes any sense to try to have a feeder school in some other part of the city.[/quote]

I agree it wouldn't make sense, but if DCPS wanted to offer Deal or Hardy/Wilson I'd certainly keep an open mind ... and not held breath[/quote]

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