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At the same time you narrow the Wilson/Deal/Hardy boundaries, you could put a soft cap on the enrollment at Deal, Wilson, and Hardy (including the feeder schools) to be exceeded only to accommodate neighborhood students who have a right to attend there.  To the extent there is capacity less than the soft cap, OOB kids could enroll.  But if the soft cap is low enough at each of the feeder schools, there would not be an overcrowding problem within a few years.  Unless new 2/3 BR condos are built in the neighborhoods -- but that's another topic.[/quote]

If I understand you what you're calling a "soft cap" is what others call converting the OOB feeder right to a preference -- the OOB kids from feeders participate in the OOB lottery, but in a new preference category.  The number of seats in the lottery is determined by the actual capacity of the building.

Question: which is higher preference: feeder school, or non-feeder with sibling?[/quote]

The way I was thinking about it was, the soft cap applies when the school reaches its pre-determined capacity.  That is, once the soft cap is met, no more OOB students are allowed in.  You could make an exception for siblings; and once you're in, the OOB students are not excluded from the feeder track.  As long as DCPS narrows the boundaries for all of the schools and the feeder schools, and creates the soft cap, over-subscription problem would be resolved after a few years.[/quote]

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