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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Answer me this:

According to the Office of Planning, DC has 96,250 school-age residents. According to the DME, between DCPS and charters there are 91,484 public school students. Enrollment data from private schools show that roughly 5% of DC kids go to private school.

So if there is widespread fraud, where are the kids?

The only explanation I can think of is that an equivalent number of kids are fraudulently going to school in Maryland. [/quote]
5% of 96,250 + 91484 is 96296.  Given that you said "roughly 5%" and a tiny tweak would make the result exactly 96,250, is it possible that the Office of Planning figure for school-age residents is simply derived from the enrollment data?[/quote]

I had the same thought but no. https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/DC_MFP_2019_Feb%2021_Final_compressed_0.pdf

My other thought is that the person who cited that stat on private school enrollment did the math between the two cited numbers and then said the 5% difference is private school students. Not sure that works -- this analysis on segregation in DC schools found 15% of DC students were in private school. But that relies on 2011 data from the Department of ED. http://www.shankerinstitute.org/sites/shanker/files/DCSEGfinal_2.pdf

Regardless, I don't think this is knowable from public data.

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There really aren't good numbers about private school attendance. The Shanker study shows that 15%  of the students in DC are in private schools. But other studies show that about two thirds of the kids in DC private schools live in MD and VA. So DC kids in DC private schools are about 5% of the students. I don't know if anyone tracks how many DC kids go to privates in the suburbs. [/quote]

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