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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Jackson-Reed (current name, not Wilson PP) not still massively overenrolled? I have never heard of it having 'excess capacity".[/quote]

It is massively overenrolled. The other poster is doing something that's unfortunately extremely common here - spreading misinformation to hide real problems that students in the city face, and making baseless accusations of racism against anyone who wants the city to address the issues.

Here's the Jackson-Reed school newspaper this past year talking about how bad overcrowding got:

[quote]Portable classrooms, also called demountables or modular classrooms, were first announced to the Jackson-Reed community in late May of the 2021-2022 school year as part of a comprehensive plan to address overcrowding. With a carrying capacity of 1,840 students, Jackson-Reed is well over capacity with approximately 2,300 students and growing.

Many classrooms are packed, and some teachers are instructing in spaces that aren’t fit for purpose.

“We have some classrooms that are using science [labs], we have some classrooms using storage spaces,” Brandon Hall, Strategy and Logistics Director at Jackson-Reed said. He clarified that the portables will accommodate between 24-28 students each.[/quote]

[url]https://thejackson-reedbeacon.com/19841/news/jackson-reed-adds-portables-as-overcrowding-worsens/[/url]

Seeing the school overenrolled by hundreds of students, to the point that kids are being taught inside storage rooms, and then claiming people "send their kids to private school because they see black kids at Wilson" is simply crazy. And anyone who knows anything about Jackson-Reed will tell you how the school can't find enough teachers for all these students, and some students miss a year in a subject because of it.

This is with over 1/3 of the students coming from out of boundary, likely from feeder rights. If someone gets an out of boundary slot at an underenrolled elementary D.C. gives them an out of boundary slot at an overenrolled middle school which gives them an out of boundary slot at a severely overenrolled highschool. If D.C. wants to keep feeder rights, they need to at least give appropriate resources towards the issues it causes. Right now, we have a local highschool where out of boundary students are crowding out in-boundary students.[/quote]

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