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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people don’t like their new inbounds school, they are not going to just suck it up as you suggest.   They will go to one of the many charter schools that are reproducing like bunnies to meet their growing demand.   [/quote]

The charter board just closed schools. There are few new ones opening -- it has slowed to a trickle.

DCPS, on the other hand, has opened Ron Brown high school in the last 3 years, is opening Bard College High School next fall, is opening a new middle school College and launching (yet another) early college application school within Coolidge, and will be doubling the capacity of Banneker. At the other end of the continuum, they've tried to boost enrollment in struggling elementary schools through the early action PK program.

And they continue to take OOB at Wilson feeder schools so as not to fall the charter sector in the total number of students served metric (including at Lafayette, Janney, Murch, Eaton, Hardy).

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Here is what has been happening with enrollment over the past ten years:
[b]DCPS Total	
[/b]SY 2007-08	 49,422 
SY 2017-18	 47,982 
Change	 (1,440)
Percent Change	-3%
	
[b]Charter Schools	[/b]
SY 2007-08	 19,733 
SY 2017-18	 43,340 
Change	 23,607 
Percent Change	120%
	
[b]Total Public	[/b]
SY 2007-08	 69,155 
SY 2017-18	 91,322 
Change	 22,167 
Percent Change	32%
	
	
[b]Wilson and its Feeders	[/b]
SY 2007-08	 6,851 
SY 2017-18	 9,770 
Change	 2,919 
Percent Change	43%
	
[b]DCPS Without Wilson Feeders	[/b]
SY 2007-08	 42,571 
SY 2017-18	 38,212 
Change	 (4,359)
Percent Change	-10%

The DME is predicting 25% growth in the number of students city-wide in the next ten years. DCPS is not planning on expanding capacity. The Charter School Board voted to approve eight new schools with a combined capacity of over 4,000 students at its last meeting. Where are those 25,000 students going to go? In the last decade all of the growth was absorbed by Wilson and its feeders. That can't happen again without a huge investment in new capacity. The charters are planning for expansion, DCPS isn't. [/quote]

Doesn’t DCPS have schools that have capacity right now?  What are projections for those schools?[/quote]

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