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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The GDS site does not seem large enough for a HS, but could see a MS on that campus. Would this replace Hardy Middle School or supplement it? If it were a HS, the enrollment would be between a quarter and a third of Wilson's population. [/quote]

Curiously, the survey is running over 50% for a new high school on the site. I don't get the thinking behind this. Most sensible option is to make GDS the new Hardy MS and then put a new HS on Wisconsin. Or maybe put a new MS on GDS, keep Hardy on Wisconsin with new boundaries to relieve Deal, and then use this Lord & Taylor site the NIMBYs love so much for a new HS. Lord knows that both a new HS AND MS are needed WOTP to relieve overcrowding at Wilson and Deal.[/quote]

Right now Hardy is 46% in-boundary. It could also hold a few hundred more kids if needed. If Deal crowding could be solved by sending kids to Hardy, it would have been solved already. Adding more middle school capacity in the southern half of the ward does nothing for Deal, but it creates a whole lot more middle school seats that have the right to attend Wilson. The only way to solve for Deal is going to be a new middle school somewhere within the current Deal boundaries, probably in the northern part of Ward 3.

A new high school that Hardy feeds helps crowding at Wilson, although it doesn't completely solve the problem. The only question I see is whether you put the new high school at MacArthur, or move Hardy to MacArthur and put the new HS at the current Hardy location on Wisconsin. I prefer the second just because MacArthur "feels" more like a middle school location and Wisconsin "feels" more like a HS location to me. But that's my subjective opinion. [/quote]

PP, I get the "feel" but it also just makes more sense. HS kids can take the multiple bus lines on Wisconsin. Some may take the red/blue/orange lines to closest stop then change to bus. The GDS MacArthur campus can accommodate 575 students, perhaps more if DCPS can negotiate an increase in enrollment numbers for that site. That number is more than the current Hardy level and could siphon off of the Deal enrollment.

The Lord and Taylor site makes a LOT of sense for another high school, especially because it is metro-accessible. And maybe it can be built in a way that a MS can also fit on the land.

GL DC parents! DCPS, do this![/quote]

So you have MacArthur as a MS, a new HS at the Hardy site on Wisconsin, and another new HS at the Lord & Taylor site?[/quote]

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