Reply to DME Kicks Off DCPS Boundary Review; Changes Expected for 2015-16 School Year

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "DME Kicks Off DCPS Boundary Review; Changes Expected for 2015-16 School Year"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ Yes, but the OOB situation it is not the cause of the overcrowding.[/quote]

It depends what you mean by "cause."  Both Deal and Wilson still have large numbers of OOB students: Deal is 30% OOB and Wilson is 47%. Neither has admitted OOB students through the lottery in several years, these kids are there because of feeder preference. If there was no feeder preference, but instead an OOB lottery at sixth and ninth grades, where places in the lottery were limited to seats actually available, each school would have a smaller OOB population and would no longer be crowded.

But it is correct to say that the OOB policy didn't "cause" overcrowding. The overcrowding is due to a surge in popularity in the schools, and more kids entitled to a place than seats available.[/quote]

The issue is more at the feeder school level.  Many of the feeder schools to Deal and Wilson historically had high OOB student populations.  As more families stayed in DCPS from the areas around those schools, their IB populations have increased while the OOB populations haven't been reduced by much.  Perhaps this is due to politics/demand or just the fact that, with OOB sibling rights, etc., it takes a long time to pull the OOB lever.  In some cases, like Hearst, they are adding classroom capacity to catch up with overenrollment, with what is still a majority OOB population.  Janney is an exception, in that it's population increase is driven virtually entirely by IB, as it's OOB share is relatively small.  The result is a pig in the python issue, as the feeder populations reach Deal and Wilson.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics