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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are the kids zoned for now?[/quote]

Amidon-Bowen.[/quote]

Isn't that school under enrolled? How'd Navy Yard manage to get a new school?[/quote]

They will be quick to tell you that it is not a "new" school but just a reopening of one that closed in 2006.

In short, there is a small group of motivated parents who were squeaky wheels for long enough that DCPS eventually gave in.  And I don't in any way mean that as a negative.  That's the only way to get things done in D.C.

Their argument was that (a) everyone should have a neighborhood elementary school and (b) a neighborhood school isn't one that requires traveling a mile and doing so across SCap.  The con argument was, as you note, if Amidon was already underenrolled, how could they expect to fill a new/reopened school?  To that question, they had projections, but it would be interesting to see whether those projections have been met.

But it wouldn't surprise me at all if the 2015 opening slips based on not enough kids.[/quote]

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