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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are slides here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17d7ZYwYlkVre4sc4EiH3SWpU-FL5zvj_

Of most interest to me is the 50 percent out of boundary enrollment on slide 8.

I'm not prepared to map inboundary enrollments to capacities because of the tediousness of the work, but I expect, as usual, that out-of-boundary attendance is at the core of overcrowding at all but a few specific schools.[/quote]

Not for the ESs. These are all heavily IB and trending more in that direction. Hardy MS has historically been mainly OOB but that is changing fast. I imagine that Bowser’s calculus is that, without these two new schools, the rest of the city will be all but shut out of the Wilson feeder pattern.[/quote]

Thank you PP for sharing the materials - fascinating discussions on FCCA / PCA foibles, but did anyone draw any conclusions from this?

87 pages later, kicking self for naively hoping the primary driver was DCPS out-of-the-box thinking to use GDS MacArthur to reduce Deal/Wilson overcrowding, or maybe even getting high SES WOTP kids into empty seats EOTP, instead of the decades-old status quo of cramming Deal/Wilson with OOB until it explodes (2028 according to the slides?

It's late at night, maybe I'm imagining things but it seems like a driving motivation for the new MS and/or HS is to encourage OOB seats/enrollment and the current racial balance proportions?  Isn't that called gerrymandering or racial quotas/redlining?  Even for an admirable aspiration?  What about the children?  Sigh.  DC.    [/quote]

The Crowding Working Group a couple of years ago found that DCPS is going to need four new schools west of Rock Creek -- two elementary, one middle and one high. There are sites for two schools in play here, no matter how you cut it you can't get four schools out of two sites. It's looking like they're coalescing around one elementary and one high school. The high school will help crowding at Wilson. Neither site is really geographically capable of helping Deal. The new elementary will help with crowding in the southern part of Ward 3 but not the northern part.  The solution for crowding at Deal is to build another middle school somewhere within Deal's boundaries. The solution for crowding in the northern part of the ward is to build another elementary somewhere in the northern part of the ward.[/quote]

DC missed a huge opportunity by not putting a new school on the site of the Chevy Chase Community Center, which is being replaced. That site could have been completely reimagined to include a school while also keeping the library and community center. Instead we're just getting the community center to placate the few geriatrics who actually use it. Massive missed opportunity. That site should be either a school (there was one on that site long ago) or housing.[/quote]

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