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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The DME cross sector task force looked at this issue and the data found that the overwhelming majority of children leaving DC schools at all grades are leaving the city altogether.

I think there's a lot of movement at a few schools that get a lot of attention here, but the data simply do not support the 'mass exodus' narrative.

It probably feels like a mass exodus though if you are at one of those schools.

[/quote] Is there data on this somewhere?[/quote]

Here is the DCPS data from 2015: http://wamu.org/story/16/03/02/5th_grade_dropoff/

Brent, Ross, and CHM@L each lost most of their 4th graders.

The following schools lost between a quarter and a half:

Browne EC
Key ES
Thomson ES
Stoddert ES
Wheatley EC
Malcolm X ES @ Green
Maury ES
Whittier EC
Randle Highlands ES
C.W. Harris ES
Houston ES
LaSalle-Backus EC
Tyler ES
Plummer ES
Watkins ES
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens
Hyde-Addison ES
Walker-Jones EC
Leckie ES
Powell ES
Garfield ES
Savoy ES
Aiton ES
Raymond EC

And that is just between 4th and 5th grade. Some of those schools will back fill or have new kids move into the area. Some do a combined 4th and 5th grade, or just have fewer 5th grade classes.

One solution to this is to end the OOB feed so people aren't switching elementary schools for the chance to get into better middle schools. Another is to restrict charters so they can't start in 5th--make them start in either PK3, 3rd, 6th, or 9th. [/quote]

I want to note here because I think people may not realize this, but a number of the schools on that list are PK-8 schools (look for the schools labeled EC which stands for "Education Campus" instead of ES for "Elementary School"). PK-8 schools generally have a harder time retaining students into middle school, which is why you see basically all the city's PK-8 schools on that list (I don't think this list doesn't include charters so I'm curious if ITDS would make that list as well).[/quote]

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