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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unclear.  But, since it only occurs once a decade, DCPS is going to be thinking long-term at the boundary reassessment.  I expect they will this round be looking for ways to better integrate schools where that geographically makes sense.[/quote]

They didn’t really do that last time. They caved to political pressure from the rich parents who go to Bancroft, Shepherd, etc.[/quote]

There was no middle school that was closer for Shepherd. Assigning to New North middle (that wasn’t open yet or even location chosen) would have eventually been to Wells and as you can see, Wells is already at capacity. Conversely, Deal is now under capacity and trending down. As is JR beginning in the fall.[/quote]

Well, they can expands Walls to accommodate influx of Shepherd and Lafayette students. Switch spaces with Coolidge, swing space at military road ECE, etc. [/quote]

Ha ha. Why would they do all that and how can they expand Wells, a brand new school? Not to mention, Brightwood, a Wells feeder is already at 100% and rising as well. Deal is not nearly as bad as other schools. The only solution is to feed another W3 school to Hardy. I know you don’t want to accept it, but that’s what’s going to happen. Hardy is only 64% capacity. They will likely move a large WOTP feeder to Hardy. Hardy is the only middle school that has room. [/quote]

Man- seems like they should have built Wells larger from the beginning![/quote]

It can be expanded, or they can flip spaces with Coolidge. They rebuilt Takoma after the fire quite quickly. [/quote]

Why expand a brand new school when they are perfectly sized and a perfectly good school like Hardy is only at 64% capacity? That doesn’t make any sense. Think logically and not emotionally.[/quote]

Check your narcissism. It’s not perfectly sized - as you pointed out, it’s IB feeders schools are overflowing. Coolidge, is under-enrolled. They have talked about expanding Wells before - when they were building it, in fact.  [/quote]

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