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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain to me, slowly, what's going on with Crestwood?[/quote]

The 2013 DCPS boundary study cut Crestwood out of the Deal/JR pathway, with those kids now going to MacFarland/Roosevelt. But in 2015, Bowser unilaterally announced "tweaks" to that plan. Crestwood kids would be grandfathered in to Deal/JR for seven years, which I assume means any Crestwood student who begins at a DCPS elementary for the 2022-23 school year or earlier has a right to Deal/JR.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/bowser-announces-tweaks-to-dc-school-boundary-plan/2015/02/27/b5f33f34-be2f-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html

I assume that Crestwood kids who started at a DCPS from 2023-24 on will be heading to MacFarland/Roosevelt, but who knows.[/quote]

That’s not it at all. The grandfathering is related to the kid’s birth year/grade—not when they entered DCPS. As I understood it, students currently in 8th grade are the last group that have rights to Deal. Crestwood residents can only get to JR via Deal because of the feeder pattern—they can’t matriculate directly to JR without going from Deal.  Crestwood residents only have by right access to Roosevelt, which is the neighborhood high school. [/quote]

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