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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Wilson school paper wrote in its most recent issue that only 90 kids from Hardy go on to Wilson each year.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L0WD_EX1CdGCBupEQxpMCBwDSmMcK3fu/view

Is that true? If so, this new HS isn't going to help at all.[/quote]

There are four years in a high school. So that would be 360 students, a significant chunk of Wilson's population.[/quote]

And as also pointed out to the FCCA affiliate who posted their “factoid” about Jackson-Reed to various local listservs, the Hardy intake is growing rapidly.

6th and 7th grades are now 200 students each. In just a couple of years, it will be a lot more than 90 kids per year heading to J-R.

The incessant barrage of misinformation designed to keep public school children out of a particular neighborhood is extremely tiresome.

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One of the things about Ward 3 schools is that the demand is very sensitive to quality. If a school has a reputation for quality people apply OOB, move inbounds, and choose it over private school. Conversely, if a school doesn't have a good reputation people move, apply OOB to other schools and go private. So school populations can change quickly. I'm old enough to remember when Deal hadn't been renovated, it had a mediocre reputation and had fewer students than Hardy has now. It only took about three years to fill the building after the renovation. The same thing is happening at Hardy, it's going to blow the roof off of Wilson if something isn't done.

Unless DCPS really screws it up the new schools are going to be great, they'll have no trouble attracting students. [/quote]

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