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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any instance in DCPS of a school that serves only grades 3-5? Pros, cons?[/quote]

Moco has some. [/quote] people dislike them.[/quote]

Not exactly the same, but Watkins is split into PK3-K and 1-5; the only people who like it are folks who live near Peabody and don’t plan to send their kid to Watkins anyway. Not sure if if NW has the same issue, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they lost kids to private at the changeover year that otherwise would have stayed until MS.[/quote]

It makes sense that DCPS would lose more students this way. It's just too many transitions to new schools, and people leave at transition grades. Although we're at a different Deal/Wilson feeder, I wouldn't want this for other DCPS families.

I'm extremely opposed to a 9th grade center for this and other reasons. It adds a whole other transition for just one year, so kids are transitioning to 4 schools in 5 years. That's just too hard on many kids. Also, a 9th grade center would lose integration with the amenities of the larger Wilson HS, lose economies of scale (i.e. would need a whole extra set of specials teachers, SPED support staff, etc.), lose the ability for kids to be placed into higher grades math class (i.e. a 9th grader taking 10th grade math courses), and many other issues. The school wouldn't be large enough to get the funding to replicate Wilson's offerings, no matter what DCPS might promise. Plus now families with 2-3 kids have a whole extra set of logistics with an additional school.
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