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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where OP do you propose to send the students that currently go to or have rights to Wilson?  How do you propose to get them to actually do that?[/quote]

No OP, but boundaries would be redrawn, and Wilson becomes a city-wide magnet.

Given the size of the Wilson boundary, they probably wouldn't all be zoned to the same school.

Students could apply to the new Wilson magnet school, or one of the other application school, or go to their new IB.

Whether they do it or not is their choice.[/quote]

But what becomes the neighborhood high school if Wilson becomes a "magnet," non-neighborhood, school.  Tenleytown would become the only area of the city without a neighborhood school, how fair is that?[/quote]

DCP could look to MoCo for viable models dating to the 80s.

This makes sense to me, but perhaps based somewhere other than Wilson (which, as others have pointed out, is already overcrowded and not very convenient for everyone).

Blair Montgomery houses 2 test-in magnets, each with a county-wide draw, and Richard Montgomery houses its own magnet, an IB Diploma program.  These several magnets are in such demand that they admit around 10% of 8th grade applicants.

In-boundary students enjoy a preference when applying for magnets because around 25% of spots are reserved for them. There are also theme academies within the schools, some with its own published admissions requirements.  If no magnet or academy admits your child at your neighborhood school, they can still attend.  They can also apply to the magnets and academies every year they attend in the hopes of filling a spot opened by attrition. Something for everybody at neighborhood schools housing school-within-a-school programs. 
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