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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of you Ellington haters need to go back to whatever midwestern state you're from.  since many of you claim that most of the students that attend Ellington are from MD and VA, perhaps you should do a FOIA request for documentation about tuition collection.  However, it is not likely that you will do that because all of baseless assumptions would be proven wrong.  I think Iowa is calling you.[/quote]

I don't think "baseless" means what you think it does.

It is easily established that there are a lot of non-DC kids at Ellington.

There are ten neighborhood high schools in DC. Every address in DC is in-boundary for one of those ten schools. On the DME website there is a document that shows where the kids who are in-boundary for each school actually go. That document is at: http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Appendix%20B_Boundary%20Participation%20Data%20Tables_DRAFT_Policy%20Brief_3.pdf

Here are the in-boundary high schools that the Ellington kids come from: 
Anacostia 77 
Ballou	53 
Cardozo	45 
Coolidge	37 
Dunbar	36 
Eastern	31 
Roosevelt	69 
Springarn 42 
Wilson	66 
Woodson	17

Total	473

According to the DCPS website ( http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/ ) the enrollment of Ellington is 541. That means there are 68 kids, or 13%, at Ellington who are not in-boundary for any DCPS school. They live in Maryland and Virginia, mostly Maryland.

I was given documents by a DC elected official that showed the true number was over 15%, but since that wasn't for attribution I won't cite it here.

It is well documented that DCPS does a poor job of collecting tuition. Here's a link to a story about it: http://dcist.com/2012/05/dc_looks_into_non-residents_who_att.php

In the year in question, only 36% of kids who registered as tuition-paying actually paid their tuition.

My cousins used to live in Iowa, visited them once, no desire to return.[/quote]

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