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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]

You're ignoring the fact that the subject of this thread -- the NW current article -- proposes a new HS that F-S and Hardy would feed into.  Now look at the demographics for those two schools.  Then re-assess your conclusion based on the different facts.[/quote]

Assess and reassess - there are still other schools, already in existence, that make more sense than an entirely new school.  Dunbar and Cardozo have just been renovated for hundreds of millions of dollars and Roosevelt's renovation started last year.  Why not choose one of those schools to "take over"?[/quote]

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