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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS restricted lottery seats at Wells and Coolidge to manage overutilization...and Coolidge has 158 kids on the waiting list for 9th grade![/quote]

Wells and Coolidge is becoming more in-boundary so they need to restrict out of bounds seats more.  There is talk of adding capacity.  The first step is actually a cafeteria expansion that is already planned (the MS and HS is currently sharing at different times).  [/quote]

I'm the PP and a Wells parent. They don't actually share the cafeteria--Wells uses it and Coolidge kids eat wherever they can find a spot. The boundary study called for reducing OOB seats and then *maybe* looking at a capital expansion in the future, potentially (temporarily) using the modular swing space after Whittier is done with it. But in the meantime, the goal is to bring the enrollment back down to the built capacity (about 500 and 800, respectively), which stinks because of loss of programming.

My original point was just to observe how many kids are trying to access Coolidge, which 8 years ago had fewer than 300 students total. I love to see it![/quote]

It would be interesting to see where the kids from the Early College program are coming from. If they are mostly coming from parts of the city closer to other high schools, relocating that program would make sense and would create more room at Wells/Coolidge. The most obvious building would be Luke C. Moore's becaue it's so close to Trinity, but that would require looking at where those students live and where they could be relocated. Renovating Wells and Coolidge so there's room for Shepherd there too would make a lot of sense but I don't think DCPS has the appetite for that fight. Adding Lafayette to the Wells/Coolidge feeder pattern would reduce some challenges and create new ones so again I don't think it will happen.[/quote]

Coolidge Early College is only 25 seats/grade and they are at Trinity so much that it's not a major use of space in the building. I know the students are coming from neighborhoods all over the city (or at least EOTP). Fair point about locating the program closer to Trinity but the original plan was going to include more university partners. Something to think about as it gets more established.

So much new housing is coming into the Takoma boundary area that Wells and Coolidge will have to expand in the next 10-15 years. Whittier's enrollment projections in the MFP are also really high post-modernization. I don't see Shepherd changing feeder patterns, much less Lafayette. We won't have room for them. Moving Shepherd was never even discussed in the boundary study.[/quote]

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