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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So imagine that DCPS eliminates the OOB feeder rights from the elementary schools.  Is it likely that inboundary families would fill up those slots or would SH be under enrolled? It is a tiny boundary.

If the boundary stays the same, not a ton of inboundary kids attend and open seats are then awarded through lottery is that actually worse for the school than getting intact OOB cohorts from the feeder elementary schools? Or is it better?

I feel like maybe the answer is to make SH a college-prep test-in program that feeds to Eastern ( with an international Baccalureate diploma option ) and have Eliot Hine be the large middle school by rights for all of the Capitol Hill elementary schools. Thoughts? [/quote]

There are plenty of under-performing, under-enrolled schools in DC  that can be converted to a test-in or magnet program should DCPS go this route.  Capitol Hill families have just as much right as those IB for Deal or Brookland for a quality MS program that serves the neighborhood.  While I can appreciate that DCPS would like to populate EH with kids from Brent, Maury and Tyler, that just isn't going to happen for the foreseeable future.  The reasons are manifold and complex, but charters like BASIS and Latin give Capitol Hill families as escape valve at Fifth Grade and thus the option to remain in the city.  Kaya surely has to realize that keeping more UMC students in the DCPS system from Fifth to Eighth Grades will only strengthen the system.  In the unique case of Brent, SH is the middle school in closest proximity, and  high-performing IB students simply are not going to stay through Fifth and then enroll in either Jefferson of EH.  ble future and SH is the closest middle school and is walkable for many as it is only five blocks from the northern Brent boundary.  [/quote]

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