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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The list of sports and participation is vaguely interesting to me, though the fact that it combines all school types really muddies the water and (IMO) makes it less clear what the state of play actually is in DC public schools.

Agree that the recommendations are garbage. More baseball fields?! Really?! The city has a LOT of baseball fields and they are historically underutilized relative to all other field types.

My kingdom for a report that leaned into actually preparing DC kids to build the skills for long-term health - lifting/training, cross country, swimming, etc.[/quote]

Something tells me you do not have a baseball player in your family. DC does not have many under utilized 90 foot baseball fields at all. And the few that exist are ALWAYS sold out every single year year round when permits open up. Many schools (public and private alike) bus to Nats youth facilities to play and often don’t have access for regulation size fields for practice.[/quote]

But baseball has it better than any other sport.

DPR used to provide statistics about field usage, they stopped because it was embarrassing to them. In a typical year, about 20,000 players would participate in an activity that used DPR fields. About 3,000 of them would use a diamond, and 17,000 would use a rectangle.

DPR used to publish an inventory of their fields. They've taken it off their website, but it's available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uAjnGktN3AHfRfEzkFar4_NTqZaAeeFC/view?usp=share_link

Of the 110 or so DPR fields, roughly two thirds are diamonds. If you look at the categories on that inventory, you'll see there are six categories:

Grass Infield -- 60' Diamond
Grass Infield -- 70' Diamond
Grass Infield -- 90' Diamond
Skinned Infield -- 60' Diamond
Skinned Infield -- 70' Diamond
Rectangular Field -- (Multi-Use)

So 85% of the players are on 1/3 of the fields, and 15% are on the other 2/3.  Note that many of the "rectangular" fields are multi-use, and can also be used for baseball. Logically, given the relative scarcity of rectangles you'd think that diamond sports would get lower priority on the multi-use fields, but that's not the way DPR sees it.

DPR sees itself as the Department of Baseball.

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