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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jefferson is serving only about 80 kids living in the catchment boundary.  Brent is never going to send scores of kids to Jefferson by virtue of its size alone and the same will be true of Van Ness.  So what is the rationale for keeping the school open when it's only half filled and badly in need of modernization?  DCPS is incapable of seeing the forest for the trees, otherwise Eliot-Hine would have been modernized before Watkins to provide a suitable swing space.  Maybe some Hill parents can coalesce around a plan to excess Jefferson so that Basis or another charter can have a proper middle/high school campus.  After all, Henderson should be made to choke on her pronouncement that DCPS doesn't do middle school very well.  In the absence of the NCLB waiver Jefferson would be just another of many failing schools in our city.[/quote]

So where are all of these kids from VN and Brent going to go to Middle school?[/quote]

Basis or somewhere in VA.[/quote]

That WAS true, however Basis is full with several in bounds Brent families not getting in. In addition, the in-bounds populations for K and PS3 are much bigger than what had been seen previously. Some of them will move/leave through the years but Basis and Latin will not be a realistic choice for any families with an older child K or below. Truthfully, it isn't a realistic choice for non-siblings going forward.

So the real answer is:

- Private school
- Basis/Latin if you have a sibling or if you are one of the lucky 10% of non-siblings who get in
- Move to NW/VA/MD
- Give Jefferson a shot

Maybe another Charter opens that can be added to this list but this is basically a whole new game that will be played going forward.[/quote]

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