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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
The current rated capacity of Deal is 910, or 303 per grade, not counting the expansion that is underway. Current enrollment is 1014 or 338 per grade.  Enrollment of the feeder schools is 3329, or 475 per grade.

I'll throw out two scenarios, the truth is somewhere between them:
Scenario 1: Let's assume that school population isn't growing, that the reason class size is smaller in elementary than in middle school is that only 71% of in-boundary elementary school kids go on to Deal. To get Deal to capacity you need to cut 35 kids per grade, or 11.5% of kids. Cutting 11.5% out of the feeder school means taking out 385 kids.

Scenario 2: Let's assume school population is growing, that today's 338 per grade will grow to 475 per grade when all the current elementary school kids reach middle school. To get Deal to capacity you'd need to cut 172 kids per grade, or 36%, or 1205 kids out of the feeder schools.

So the answer is somewhere between 385 and 1205 kids.  Look at that list and decide where you would cut.  To answer the original question, Janney, Murch and Lafayette come to about 1800, a cut of over 1500. That would be far more than necessary unless you wanted to turn Deal into a de facto city-wide school.[/quote]

Yesterday I had a long meeting with Mathew Frumin who is running for an At Large seat on the DC Council. We discussed the boundary issue, particularly as it pertains to Deal and Wilson, in great detail. He cited numbers showing that grade sizes at Deal would grow to about 450 (this is from my memory, it could have been slightly less or slightly more), but that with the added capacity coming as a result of the Reno School renovation, Deal would have room for nearly that many. He felt that Deal could handle the expected number of students, though perhaps with a minor overcrowding. As a result, he didn't think that Deal required much in the way of boundary modification. I'd be interested to hear what other think about his analysis.
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