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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Wishful thinking on your part.  The balance is already shifting. [/quote]

The demographic balance at W-L has been stable for many years even with neighborhood rezonings—those are the facts—and we won’t know if it is currently shifting until the next two years or so. But if APS keeps moving affluent neighborhoods away from the school to balance enrollment then of course new challenges would eventually emerge after a tipping point.

Neighborhoods with involved parents, where kids grow up through the system, provide stability and an environment where average kids can also succeed. APS should really strive to balance enrollment and demographics at all three high schools.

The priorities have changed however, and balanced demographics across APS may just be wishful thinking. I’m still surprised that the Courthouse and Rosslyn neighborhoods are still zoned to Yorktown and not the much closer W-L. They were already rezoned from Williamsburg MS to the closer Dorothy Hamm, so a rezoning to W-L may be on the horizon. [/quote]

They are adding 400 more kids, this is a deep dive into Wakefield zone to address growing SA. Past is not a prediction [/quote]

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