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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A relatively high performing, economically homogeneous high school can do well with an enrollment of 2700 or more.  That is the case at schools like New Trier in Winnetka.  It won’t be the case at W-L and parents will be increasingly unhappy with how their average kids fall through the cracks there in the future.  [/quote]

With the current demographic balance W-L should do well at 2700 students or 1000 students, or 3,000 students, etc. If the balance were to shift and APS were to rezone more single family home neighborhoods away from W-L to Yorktown to account for population growth in the southern part of the county, then yes, average kids may fall through the cracks. [/quote]

That’s literally what’s happening. They are moving Wakefield units to WL and YHS IB transfers are shrinking— this year there were many rejections in fact. [/quote]

The units they’re moving to W-L were at W-L, for multiple decades, until the last boundary process in the late 2010s. They’re PUs zoned to Fleet, one of the only South Arlington neighborhood schools that isn’t Title 1, so it’s not like they’re going to tank the school. And they may have reduced the number of YHS IB transfers, but they increased the Wakefield IB transfers to alleviate crowding there, and again, those kids are the higher performing kids zoned WHS, also not a detriment to the school’s economic balance or performance. Cool your jets. [/quote]

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