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DCPS apparently is not going to update the school Profiles pages until August but if you request demographic info on specific schools often they will respond to your request.  I requested the info on Hearst and got the reaponse that for SY 15 - 16 as of count day (Oct '15) Hearst overall was 33% IB with total enrollment of 316. Based on what principal has said about the lottery slots for rising PK class it would be reasonable to assume a net 30 additional IB kids for SY '16 - 17 which would result in estimated 42% IB (assuming total enrollment stays constant which it may or may not).  [/quote]

Except all WOTP elementary schools have declining IB enrollment as the kids get older. So a big PK contingent doesn't necessarily mean anything. For all we know, Hearst has had 30 IB kids for PK every year for the past 10. [/quote]

Ha. You must be new here. Welcome to the new Hearst. It's been a great three years and it will continue. Just watch. Trends cannot be ignored. And prior data is all available. It's just dcps is being jerky this year. [/quote]

Why does it take DCPS a year to get enrollment data out?  Or are they overly sensitive politically about the fact that Hearst OOB is falling quickly because some EOTP areas have traditionally relied on Hearst access for their kids?[/quote]

This is probably partly true.  DCPS is in a real bind in the sense that the charters are taking the cream of the crop EOTP and there is no longer room to stash the rest of the EOTP kids in the overly crowded WOTP schools.  So for the first time DCPS will be truly exposed as the failure that it is.  Interesting the lack of transparency corresponds to the disastrous PARCC scores from last year.  [/quote]

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