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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At risk set-asides are going to make a minimal difference. [/quote]

Define "minimal difference." If Maury gets to the 25% it drops the disparity between the schools to below 40%, which is a big improvement by the DME's metric.  If the set asides don't do that for whatever reason, then we'll know that and can explore other options. [/quote]

Maury is 84% IB now. It can’t get to 25% and even if it did, those would not all be at-risk. [/quote]

It is DME's own projection that with at-risk set-asides Maury's at-risk percentage is estimated to reach 25%, and they acknowledge that all of that growth will come from the upper grades.[/quote]

Isn't 84% the percent of currently enrolled students, not 84% of capacity.[/quote]

Maury is 100% at capacity and 16% IB. So even if 100% of OOB were at-risk, the percentage is not going over 16%. As for the upper grades my guess is that most of the new OOB students entering after 2nd grade are at risk now. So there just are not that many seats unless DCPS is going to insist that the school become over-enrolled. [/quote]

Are you just making things up? Maury is not 100% capacity, as every presentation has shown.  DME's own modeling suggests that they will get to 25% through the lottery.  These slides are all on the boundary study website. [/quote]

Maury is at 86% utilization. (https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Boundary%20Study%20School%20Meetings%20Miner%2012.19.2023.pdf)

And many of the OOB students at Maury receive proximity preference and are not at-risk.  If proximity preference is bumped for at-risk preference that could definitely have an impact, assuming there are interested at-risk students.[/quote]

Does anyone know what the order of preferences will be. Normally schools decide. But are they going to make the schools put an at-risk preference first (even before siblings and proximity)? Seems pretty nuts. And going to be hard on some Peabody families that have proximity preference to Maury and aren't willing/able to go to Watkins (such a successful cluster).

At some point—I think fairly recently—the capacity for Maury was revised upward. I remember it being in the 580s or 590s post-renovation, and now they are saying 613 or something. I'd like to learn a lot more about that.[/quote]

They are saying it will be the #1 preference at all schools with sub-25% at risk across the board. The real life effect of this is going to be a huge boon for charters, because zero non at risk students will get into basically any non-T1 in DC. Maybe in UNW there won't be sufficient at risk applicants, but Brent, Maury, L-T? All those spots, including sibling & proximity ones, are going to at risk students exclusively.[/quote]

Well that’s one way to break DCPS. Seems like a bad idea to make it number 1.  No charter even does that. [/quote]

I doubt the preference would be above siblings.  Also, I really don't believe it would "break DCPS."  Why do you think that?  Adding a relatively small percentage of At Risk students into a highly privileged situation seems a lot like the bussing of yore.  I went to a school with bussing.  By no means did it break our school system.[/quote]

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