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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowser's idea to create a new "Western" high school isn't a bad one.  It would relieve the existing pressure on Wilson immediately (with room to grow), and maybe send the Hardy and SWW-FS kids to the new Western.  Don't know of an existing building big enough to house it, though.[/quote]

I'm the OP of this thread:
the old Western HS actually has a large athletic field just one block away that was used for Western's sports teams. Duke Ellington doesn't have any sports teams, so it's now used as a community sports fields, walking track, and Duke Ellington marching band uses it for practice. However, the sizable piece of land is still owned by DCPS. It's the size of two city blocks and way under-used: https://goo.gl/maps/cAbhLv8ktN32

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There's no way that spot would work for a new HS -- Reservoir road is already packed to the gills with Georgetown Hospital traffic.  Maybe build an addition on the field behind SWW-Francis Stevens would work, imo.  Basically the entire problem is caused by the geographical region for Wilson being far too big.  It's not coincidental at all that Ellington occupies the same real estate as the old Western High School.  When you look at the feeder map for Wilson, you can see it makes complete sense that a Western high school at Ellington's location would take up the lower half of the map that now feeds to Wilson.  The region's just too big and needs to be cut in half with a new Western HS to take the students it used to take.[/quote]

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