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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, so there's data on where people live and where they go to school.  https://dme.dc.gov/page/sy2020-21-public-school-enrollments-dcps-boundary

I can see from this, for example, that of the 6th-8th grade students living IB for Deal, 81 attend DCI and 24 attend Oyster. DCI has 59 students who are zoned for JR ("Wilson" in this data set).

I can see that 10 students zoned for Bancroft attend Mundo-P St. And 12 zoned for Lafayette. LAMB has 12 students zoned for Bancroft. And these are just the schools that are sending 10 or more students.

So it absolutely is the case that some people do have a choice of more than one good middle school, and we don't really know from the data whether they're choosing Deal or Hardy over DCI. But the choice is there.[/quote]

+1.  People with good middle school options are choosing DCI and staying at DCI.

But I suspect OP, like many families, don’t have a good middle school option and hoping to get lucky in the lottery to get in as a non-feeder.  That luck is going to diminish each and every year and the odds will be lower and lower as more feeder families track to DCI and more non-feeder families who get a spot take it .

This trend has been obvious the past few years.  The school has been on an upward trajectory. If that surprises you, then you obviously have not been paying attention.

Also each year the number of families scrambling for middle school [/quote]

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