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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really tough to call this one. My money is on:

1) a lot of current families will stay through the move, because they like the school and have grown attached to it. Some small number will leave due to the move (they will either lottery into another charter closer to home, lottery into DCPS, or go DCPS if they have a good IB option).

2) for new families entering PK3, a lot of Mt Pleasant families will choose Bancroft or DC bilingual instead. (Same goes for Creative Minds, when it moves next year)

3) CoHi, Crestwood, Petworth, AdMo families may continue to choose MV or may begin to prefer IB options. It depends how they evaluate their IB options and also DC bilingual or LAMB vs MV. I suspect Powell will get a lot of attention, maybe Tubman too? HD Cooke also seems to be getting more interest.

4) WOTP families will choose MV less and less - that is a long and bad commute.

5) latino population will drop steadily at MV because DC is only 10% latino whereas CoHi, Mt Pleasant is 25% latino (approx?). MV is moving from the single highest concentration of latinos in the District to one of the lowest. [b]Latino population of Bloomingdale was zero in the 2010 census, I believe. [/b]I know that's just one of the neighborhoods.

6) too close to call on white versus African American demographics or wealthy vs FARMS because both MV's old location and its new location have lots of both (black and white, rich and poor)

My main assumption underpinning all of this is that location does matter to a lot of parents for ES but it's not absolute. So overall, over time, I expect gradually fewer Crestwood/Mt Pleasant/Co Hi parents and gradually more from near the new location.

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Bloomingdale demographics have changed quite dramatically since the 2010 census even though it's only been 4 years.  I personally know several Latino families in Bloomingdale so it's certainly not "zero".[/quote]

I've lived here since the '90s.  Nobody has bought into Bloomingdale within the past 5 years without paying at least $600K, which would be a bargain.  The "Bloomingdale Kids" neighborhood group is hopeful that MV's location will make it easier to get in.  Nobody wants the neighborhood DCPS schools and LAMB and YuYing are desirable but the WLs are so long.[/quote]

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