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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But it also has a significant number of not at risk kids in boundary who do not attend the school.  If the school made some changes to improve and got those kids to attend, Miner could have very different school demographics.  [/quote]

According to DME, the Miner IB population demographics mirror the attending demographics.  Maybe that data can be parsed more closely, but they've said increasing IB population wouldn't change the at-risk numbers.  Increasing IB MC/UMC attendance would also potentially displace the Miner OOB kids who are coming from worse school environments.  The cluster would potentially do this as well, if it were successful.  I believe that's a big reason DME is punting here. They've heard from a lot of affluent parents from both school communities.  They have not heard from Miner at-risk families.[/quote]

The two sets of demographics don't match exactly, but it's largely true. However, the Miner demographics are driven by extraordinarily different demographics in a much bigger ECE vs a much smaller rest of the school. When you have a school that has 7 ECE classrooms and then 1 in other grades, the ECE being 50% UMC white completely masks what the actual demographics of the rest of the school are in the overall numbers.[/quote]

Say you don’t know anything about Miner without saying you don’t know anything about Miner. Lol

Miner has 9 ECE classrooms. Most of the students are not white (even in ECE). We have 2-3 homerooms at every other grade. We have multiple upper grade classrooms currently over the DCPS class limits. We are overenrolled this year by 40 something students.

Stop making up facts.[/quote]

Apologies, if you have 9 ECE classes and only 368 students, then your other grades average approx 35 students. And doesn't Miner have some self-contained classrooms as well? How could you possible have another grade with 3 homerooms? If you did, the other grades would average 30 students. Looking at the numbers, I assumed you must have 1 classroom in some grades. If not, you must have many classrooms that are way underenrolled (DCPS target is 22; 20 is considered full). Also, Miner is way underenrolled for capacity. You may be "overenrolled" based on projections, but that's an accounting thing not an actual capacity issue.

In any case, when my child attend ECE at Miner, her PK3 classroom was almost half white and just over half UMC. Perhaps things have changed? I had assumed, if anything, the gentrification trend in ECE had accelerated, but perhaps that's incorrect?[/quote]

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