Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If few shepherd and Lafayette students go, then space isn't an issue. The magnet can go anywhere. ..Cardozo and Dunbar have room. Or give up the magnet because it duplicates bard. There are not so many academically advanced hs students in dcps. No need for bard, a larger banneker, sww, McKinley tech, and this magnet.
This is not a factual statement. There is currently a huge amount of demand for McKinley, Walls, and Banneker and not nearly enough space. We need more solid college-prep options throughout the whole city. If Bard and Coolidge can live up to their promises (right now a huge if), they will stay in high demand.
Anonymous wrote:If few shepherd and Lafayette students go, then space isn't an issue. The magnet can go anywhere. ..Cardozo and Dunbar have room. Or give up the magnet because it duplicates bard. There are not so many academically advanced hs students in dcps. No need for bard, a larger banneker, sww, McKinley tech, and this magnet.
Anonymous wrote:Bard at Takoma would be excellent. Plenty of MC and UMC families are going to vote with their feet, too - they can go to charters, lottery, go private, move to Takoma Park.
Anonymous wrote:If few shepherd and Lafayette students go, then space isn't an issue. The magnet can go anywhere. ..Cardozo and Dunbar have room. Or give up the magnet because it duplicates bard. There are not so many academically advanced hs students in dcps. No need for bard, a larger banneker, sww, McKinley tech, and this magnet.
Anonymous wrote:If dcps sent shepherd and Lafayette to new north, it would encourage more tec and other families feel good about ms and hs, while reducing crowding at Wilson.
To the issue of whether there's enough space at new north, tbere is if new north and Coolidge are considered together. Put 6 and 7th grades in new north, 8th inits own wing at Coolidge, and there's still plenty of room for 9-12.
calexander wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hey Christopher, how many OOB students has TEC taken for prek and kindergarten the past few years?
I would assume as an early action school that they wouldn't take any OOB for PK3 or PK4, as they must take all of their IB students - and the data matches this. It would appear that they had 4 OOB in K (two with sibling preference), and 15 on the waitlist who are OOB.
The problem is the free-fall after that because of the horrible MS/HS options.
This has always been the challenge. The new middle school could have been part of the solution, but sheesh, DCPS is not exactly telling a coherent story there. The buildings will be beautiful, but beyond that, who knows at this point?
calexander wrote:Anonymous wrote:Starting in 2019-20 there will no longer be 6th grade. The next year they will no longer have 7th, etc.
Takoma needs to fill the school with younger students to replace the grades they are losing. If their enrollment per grade were to remain stable, they won't be able to fund the arts curriculum, its main selling point, as well.
Thus they will likely open at least one more class of ECE, and there will likely be some OOB seats after all the Early Action people to fill in the classes.
Thanks for this post. Yes, all four of the "New North" middle school feeders (Takoma, Brightwood, LaSalle and Whittier) will have the opportunity to expand their ECE programs to take advantage of the available space. TEC is adding at least one PK class next year.
calexander wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hey Christopher, how many OOB students has TEC taken for prek and kindergarten the past few years?
I would assume as an early action school that they wouldn't take any OOB for PK3 or PK4, as they must take all of their IB students - and the data matches this. It would appear that they had 4 OOB in K (two with sibling preference), and 15 on the waitlist who are OOB.
The problem is the free-fall after that because of the horrible MS/HS options.
This has always been the challenge. The new middle school could have been part of the solution, but sheesh, DCPS is not exactly telling a coherent story there. The buildings will be beautiful, but beyond that, who knows at this point?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hey Christopher, how many OOB students has TEC taken for prek and kindergarten the past few years?
I would assume as an early action school that they wouldn't take any OOB for PK3 or PK4, as they must take all of their IB students - and the data matches this. It would appear that they had 4 OOB in K (two with sibling preference), and 15 on the waitlist who are OOB.
The problem is the free-fall after that because of the horrible MS/HS options.
Anonymous wrote:Starting in 2019-20 there will no longer be 6th grade. The next year they will no longer have 7th, etc.
Takoma needs to fill the school with younger students to replace the grades they are losing. If their enrollment per grade were to remain stable, they won't be able to fund the arts curriculum, its main selling point, as well.
Thus they will likely open at least one more class of ECE, and there will likely be some OOB seats after all the Early Action people to fill in the classes.