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The renovation plans for Ellington - with significant private investment will make it a performing arts center, not just a high school. The extra space is going to dance studios, rehearsal rooms with specially-built acoustics, exhibit space, auditoriums and performance halls. It's not just that the students are mostly AA, it's that the school is a school for performing arts. That's what it's meant to be, and there's no other performing arts school anywhere that's also a neighborhood school. Demand that of this one really is repellant.

I don't have the codefordc link that shows the dearth of kids attending DCPS from that part of town, but it's proof that building a new high school there doesn't make sense.

If you want to keep Wilson for WOTP families then put some effort behind other options EOTP where a good percentage of Wilson students live and where projections show that the population if school-aged kids is growing. [/quote]

Wow, defensive, without adequate explanation for the vitriol.  Perhaps this would help ease such an emotional response to the idea:   the benefit of the new HS would not only be for "WOTP" residents -- most of the kids going to the feeder schools for the future high school in Ward 2/3 do not live in Wards 2 or 3.[/quote]

Defensive, or calling for common sense?

Here's a map showing where Wilson's students live.  Most of them live EOTP (remember that kids in SW DC are [i]in-boundary[/i]) and most of them pass several other half-empty high schools on their way to Ward 3.    http://edu.codefordc.org/#!/school/463

Click on this map to see how many students from Georgetown/Burleith/Hillandale are going to any public school - whether it's DCPS or charter.   http://edu.codefordc.org/#!/neighborhood/4

Now scroll to figure D.9 in this link to see the population forecast for school aged children over the next 10 years.  
http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/DC%20Public%20Education%20FMP%20Appendix%20D-E_1.pdf

And then try to make your case for a new high school in Wards 2/3.[/quote]

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