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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone would benefit from a city-wide magnet middle school.  Hundreds of strong students in less affluent wards would qualify.  Wards 1, 4, 5, 7 and 8 have the chops and have a lot of students prepared for a magnet school.[/quote]

Not snarky or doubtful, just uninformed.  Where is the information that there are a significant number of students well prepared for a magnet middle school in these Wards.[/quote]

Suppose DCPS created a magnet middle school with the admission requirement being DC-CAS proficiency – relatively inclusive given DC’s circumstances.  Other admission standards can be used, but this gives a general sense of the approximate number of proficient/advanced students in grades 3rd to 5th in 2011.

Ward 8
401 students (24%)

Ward 7
527 students (30%)

Warst 6
500 students (44%)

Ward 5
341 students (47%)

1,800 students could benefit from a magnet middle school in just these four wards.

DCPS would lose fewer students in the younger years and gain new students with strong middle school options.

Strong schools are less expensive to operate (per pupil expense) and allow more resources for struggling students.

The District would increase population and tax revenues with strong middle schools.

DC has several magnet (selective admission) high schools; it needs corresponding middle schools.[/quote]

Setting aside whether the bar is high enough, you would support removing every proficient student from his/her neighborhood school/cluster and leaving the other school to be filled entirely with kids that score at a basic or below basic level?  [/quote]

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