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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make Elliot Hine and Jefferson one school. [/quote]
I agree there should be one less middle school in Ward 6.  But If you close EH, where would kids from hill East attend?  If you close Jefferson, where will kids from SW attend?[/quote]
Phase out feeder rights for OOB students at Stuart-Hobson and there will be more than enough room for a solid cohort of Ward 6 students, whether from SW or Hill East.  It would seem to make less sense to close Eliot-Hine with Maury's proximity and the continuing gentrification of Hill East and to a lesser extent Rosedale.  SW and Near Southeast will never be home to a meaningful numbers of middle schoolers so why let the tail wag the dog in terms of thoughtful planning?[/quote]
Again, I agree that there should be one less middle school in Ward 6, but your numbers and assumptions are wrong.

There seems to be a misunderstanding of Southwest - the neighborhood has lots of dwellings for families with kids.  Many are home to disadvantaged families, but nonetheless there is a severe misunderstanding of the composition of Southwest, it is full of children and getting more all the time.  Amidon ES in Southwest, at 82% in-bounds, has the most in-bounds students of any Ward Six school.

Jefferson, strictly speaking, has the most in-bounds students of the three middle schools:

Jefferson
34% in-bounds
94 in-bounds students

Stuart Hobson
15% in-bounds
63 in-bounds students

Eliot Hine
25% in-bounds
64 in-bounds students

Imagine going to city leaders and asking them to close Jefferson and have those (mostly disadvantaged) kids make their way to Eliot Hine, essentially driving past Stuart Hobson on their way to school.  [/quote]

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