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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see any boundary for Oyster-Adams middle school. Do families in Woodley Park with kids in elementary at Oyster have a choice between continuing at Oyster Adams for middle school, or going to Deal? If so, how many pick Deal, and would it help to make their only choice Oyster-Adams? [/quote]

There has to be an English-only middle school option for IB Oyster-Adams families since O-A does not have an English only track. Students can't be forced to be in a bilingual program.

However the O-A boundary is awkward. Wards 1 and 3, Woodley, Kalorama and Adams Morgan. Plus it is about 60% OOB who currently can have Deal as an alternative. Fewer take advantage of it.

The mass exodus to Deal by O-A families after the messy merger seems to have abated somewhat. But some middle school kids now also leave for monolingual charters or privates. There are a few bilingual kids from charters and elementary DCPS who go to O-A for middle grades OOB.

On balance, there probably isn't a flood of O-A students crowding Deal these days as there were 3-5 years ago.

Bancroft and Sheperd will have to fight it out to avoid Lincoln at CHEC. They likely contribute more EOP students to Deal than Oyster.[/quote]

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