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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The looming crisis is in elementary schools, not middle and high.

I posted the list above, which comes straight out of the DME MFP.

Overall, DCPS will have 886 fewer seats than enrolled students in elementary schools in 2027. However, those aren't evenly distributed. East of the Anacostia there will be a surplus. The rest of the city will be about 2,000 seats short.

No amount of boundary shuffling can make up for the fact that there just aren't enough seats.[/quote]

They can move grades 6-8 out of the schools that still have it and into middle schools with excess capacity, remove PK from some elementaries, change feeder patterns and rules so that some schools are less desirable for OOB, move where some self-contained special ed classrooms are located, and move some of the boundaries. It isn't hard as a math problem; it's just hard politically. [/quote]

In general the capacity in K-8 schools is not in places that need seats. For example, there are no K-8 schools west of Rock Creek, and not enough in Columbia Heights, Shaw/Dupont and Capitol Hill to deal with the need.

A more realistic solution would be to close Wilson as a high school and make it a mega elementary school. Send all of Ward 3 to a high school on the other side of Rock Creek, along with about half of the kids who currently go to Deal. [/quote]

Francis-Stevens and Oyster-Adams are pretty close to the park and both are PK-8. Ending them at 5th would be a step in the right direction; not sufficient on its own but useful. Miner also has a ton of excess capacity that could be used to help more crowded schools in Hill East, and Savoy has enough space that it can take some of the Van Ness overflow. With it being a block from the green line metro and right on the P6 and other bus lines, it's a reasonable commute. Using Joy Evans and/or the Capper Community Center for some PK classrooms would also help in Navy Yard. The hard part of the boundary and feeder process is not finding solutions but dealing with people's feelings about those solutions (which generally boil down to not wanting their kids to go to a poorer/lower-scoring school than they currently have rights to). [/quote]

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