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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
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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I was the 13:24 PP.  I'm sure DCPS knows (a) the capacity of the new addition at Deal and (b) how the feeder school population breaks down by grade and (c) the historical tendency of feeder school kids to continue to Deal, which together should give a very good picture. Certainly if the current feeder schools average 475 per grade and the new addition gives 450 per grade it's in the right ballpark.  We're unlikely to see meaningful growth in the feeder schools: the feeder schools are all essentially full, but in aggregate have over 40% out-of-boundary, so any growth in the in-boundary population is likely to just reduce the OOB population through attrition.

We may even end up with more OOB spots at Deal, it may be possible for OOB kids who didn't go to a Deal feeder to get in, which I think is a good thing.[b] I don't understand why a fifth-grader who won a spot in the OOB lottery for pre-K at a Deal feeder in 2006 is more deserving of a scarce spot at Deal than a fifth-grader who went to his neighborhood school.
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Of course enlarging Deal does nothing to help crowding at Wilson.[/quote]

If the PreK student was there for 7 years (5 grades + PK & K) then his entire social cohort is at that school.  It would be more disruptive to move him to another school, than to bring a new student in.[/quote]

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