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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since the redistricting the Lafayette neighborhood technically may be in Ward 4 but it certainly is not of Ward 4.  Ward 4 has a checkered political history.  It was part of Ward 3 for years and that is how most residents are oriented — west of the Park.  It would be unthinkable if Lafayette no longer fed to Deal and Wilson.[/quote]
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PP you're responding to here. OK, fair enough regarding the student body issues. But some of these neighborhoods do have the student body demographics, yet these families are choosing OOB DCPS, DCPCS, or privates. Something has to be done to make the IB schools a realistic choice. For example, look at the Logan Circle/Columbia Heights/ Shaw area. There are plenty of affluent families there, but the middle and high schools aren't even close to reasonable options. I'm not saying that I have all the answers, but steps need to be taken to make these schools realistic options. No UMC families - either black or white - would consider Cardozo for example. The student body at Cardozo doesn't reflect the neighborhood. DC leadership hasn't demonstrated a viable plan to work towards this improvement of EOTP MS & HS options. Anything short of this just isn't sustainable. It can't be Deal/Hardy/Wilson or a handful of charters forever. [/quote]

It isn't going to be just Deal/Hardy/Wilson forever. Hobson is on the cusp of being the "next" Hardy, and I think Jefferson is close behind. But it's taken 10 years for those schools to get to the point where more affluent families stay through 5th and it will happen school by school likely as the neighborhoods gentrify (and not because the "schools" themselves change much).

The city's entire student body demographics are just not there -- yet -- even if you pulled everyone out of every charter and their OOB schools. Maybe if all the Ward 3 private school families weny to public (which is happening slowly but the latest data showed that ~50% are still not going to a public or a charter school)

48% of DCPS' 52,164 students are at-risk (homeless, in foster care, qualified for TANF or SNAP) - 25,038 kids
44% of charters' 46,902 students are at risk - 20,636

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Is that the actual number or is that counting all the kids at schools that get classified as 100% at risk even if some kids aren't? [/quote]

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