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A good start would be to take at least 80 6th graders, if not 85. Current MS HB enrollment is 80 6th graders, 84 7th graders, and 85 8th graders. Since they can obviously accommodate 85/class at the middle school level, why limit the lottery to 75 for next year's 6th grade class?   If the reason is that extra seats are being left open for administrative transfers, that is not right.  If enrollment is via lottery, the administrative transfer should be extremely rare.    [/quote]

I don't disagree with this, but I have a hard time believing that adding 10 more kids to the lottery this year would have satisfied people. [/quote]

I think it would be a good start.  At least it shows HB's willingness to accept a class size larger than it's 75 seat/MS grade capacity.

Additionally, many people have an issue with the small size of the school, but I think many people also have an issue with the lack of transparency with the additional students which suddenly appear in the enrollment. If only 75 kids are chosen each year (for 6th grade) through lottery, how do the numbers suddenly go up by 5-9 students per grade? As I understand, the waitlist is maintained by the APS central office through 1 July - after that, it's transferred to HB Woodlawn to maintain. Is that when siblings or those well connected suddenly get offered a spot? 
I AM NOT saying this is happening, but without transparency, many fear this is happening, especially when you hear of families with multiple children attending, many of whom were waitlisted at some point but miraculously get offered a spot just before the beginning of the school year.

Maybe HB Woodlawn needs to provide information whenever there is a new enrollment from the waitlist, maybe something like, one student from the XX Elementary school zone left, so waitlist #Y from that school zone was offered admission. Since everyone knows their waitlist number, this would provide enough transparency without giving out personal student details and might alleviate the "conspiracy theories" that are out there. If there isn't any favoritism happening, then this will help alleviate everyone's concerns. The turnover is so small at HB that I don't think this information would be too burdensome to provide. 
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