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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone know what the OOB population is in this year's Watkins 1st grade?[/quote]

This is going to sound snarky but I don't know how else to pose it: Do you really mean how many OOB or not Hill kids (meaning higher SES, parents on MoTH, kids in SOTH)? Ward 6 more generally, or truly IB?[/quote]

Go to: http://edu.codefordc.org click "schools" and choose Watkins. You can see where the kids are coming from. [b]A large number are coming from Anacostia[/b]. [/quote]

Somewhat of a misleading conclusion. I see 101 from Union Station/Stanton Park/Kingma and 140 from Lincoln Park as the biggest cohorts. The Anacostia contingent is in groups of 23 (Congress Heights, 15 Douglas Shipley Terrace, 39 Twining/Randle Gardens. There are some more distributions of similar size in Wards 5 and 7 too. Do you include Capitol Heights/Benning in your swath of Anacostia?[/quote]

You don't consider 77 kids out of ~500 to be a large number? That's almost a fifth of the school.

As of 2013/2014, Watkins was 21% in-boundary.  That's telling. [/quote]

I'm not saying 77 kids isn't large but the implication struck me as misleading - it isn't an overwhelming number in comparison to other cohorts. Which gets back to my previous snarky question of whether the person asking about OOB means the narrow IB or Hill kids ("who look like us") contingent. Would that PP care if it were 21% IB but the OOB were all kids from L-T, Maury or Brent catchments?

That being said, I think the overall reduction of the number of classes at Watkins can only help to keep the flow of IB kids coming from Peabody into 1st grade. I also think that with the overflow of Peabody IB and other nearby schools, there will be some upward movement in IB kids in Watkins. But maybe not enough or early enough for the PP's comfort.[/quote][/quote]

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