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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that. [/quote]

The DCC has a lot of cleanup to do. Right now, everyone flocks to Blair, Einstein and Wheaton. Those schools are over capacity and hard to get into. [b]Northwood and Kennedy are the laggard schools and they're under capacity.[/b]

If Woodward is going to be added to the DCC, then I imagine it will just keep Kennedy and Northwood at the bottom of the pile as the less desirable schools within the DCC. So for that reason, I hope it's not in the DCC.[/quote]

FACT CHECK (2022-2023 data)
Northwood: enrollment 1,796; capacity 1,526
Kennedy: enrollment 1,827; capacity 2,159

But the PP's comment does indicate who they consider to be "everyone" (i.e., somebody) vs. who they consider to be not-everyone (i.e., nobody).[/quote]

OP is speaking about how 8th graders rank their DCC high school choices. It’s Blair as the top choice, then Einstein, then Wheaton (more people have been interested in it the past few years because of the biomed program), then Northwood, and finally Kennedy. Tbh there’s a big gap between Blair and everyone else.[/quote]

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