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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I am not fully following this line of argument about Hearst, but I am likely just being dense.  Previously Hearst 3rd graders went to other NW schools that fed into Deal.  So in some sense these kids are still around in either scenario.  I guess you could argue that adding 4th and 5th grades allowed the feeder schools to expand more than otherwise could have.  So we'd have had a crisis of space at Janney or Murch sooner.  (Or you could argue that more OOB kids came in when the grades where added, as some of then current families at the school made other choices instead of keeping their children at Hearst, but some of that effect is presumably temporary.)[/quote]

When Hearst was K-3, it was four grades, two classes per grade, eight classrooms total. They could have expanded it to PK-5, seven grades, one class per grade, seven classrooms total and it would have fit in the same space (actually one less classroom).  This is roughly 150 kids. Currently, Hearst has fewer than 50 in-boundary students.  This would have been ample space for all of the in-boundary kids, so you could maintain this attendance simply by limiting the number of new OOB kids admitted each year. There would have been a transition period as the two-class-per-grade kids aged out, for that they could have kept the trailers.

By maintaining Hearst as a two-class-per-grade school they're creating an addition 25 kids per year who have the right to attend Deal and then Wilson.[/quote]

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