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Anonymous wrote:The waitlist movement for Walls is always substantial, but it went down significantly from last year to this year (meaning less waitlist movement by June) so I do not think there is a trend against students going to Walls.

There is a trend of Wilson IB students not going to Walls.

BC Wilson now has a plurality of white students* (and will be majority white in 2-3 years). Parents no longer feel the need to send them to an application school to be surrounded by a strong peer group. That's why many students IB for Wilson went to SWW. It wasn't for the more rigorous courses (Wilson has more APs and dual enrollment options, those students also didn't pursue the GWU associates degree option).

*https://dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0463

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Anonymous wrote:The incoming class is around 700 students.

Wow. Just wow.

Source? There were 500 in Deal 8th grade last year and 150(?) at Hardy 8th grade. A good number I know peeled off for application school or private, how do you get to 700?

Oyster feeds in too.

Oyster is tiny, about 60 students graduate each year. And only half of them go to Wilson.

I know...just giving another one. And I'd like to know the exact numbers because I bet it is higher. Also, my child - rising 9th grader - went to Deal. She can count on one hand the number of people she knows not going to Wilson. Walls has lost its shine to quite a few.

I know a number of Deal kids who wanted to attend private but didn’t get in. These are all A students. It was exceedingly difficult this year. This adds to the numbers at wilson this year but is good as these are kids who are really motivated to do well.

Also good that there are more seats at SWW for motivated students who lack a decent IB high school.

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Anonymous wrote:The incoming class is around 700 students.

Wow. Just wow.

Source? There were 500 in Deal 8th grade last year and 150(?) at Hardy 8th grade. A good number I know peeled off for application school or private, how do you get to 700?

Oyster feeds in too.

Oyster is tiny, about 60 students graduate each year. And only half of them go to Wilson.

I know...just giving another one. And I'd like to know the exact numbers because I bet it is higher. Also, my child - rising 9th grader - went to Deal. She can count on one hand the number of people she knows not going to Wilson. Walls has lost its shine to quite a few.

I know a number of Deal kids who wanted to attend private but didn’t get in. These are all A students. It was exceedingly difficult this year. This adds to the numbers at wilson this year but is good as these are kids who are really motivated to do well.

Links to the last several years of enrollment data here https://osse.dc.gov/enrollment

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know where this number is published when it is official (count day)? I cannot find historical information on the school profile as the number of students is not broken down by grade.

It is here: https://osse.dc.gov/page/2018-19-school-year-enrollment-audit-report-and-data

For 18-19, there were:
480 9th graders
476 10th graders
415 11th graders
418 12th graders

NP. What would be interesting to see is what the size of the class that graduated in 2018 was in 2015.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know where this number is published when it is official (count day)? I cannot find historical information on the school profile as the number of students is not broken down by grade.

It is here: https://osse.dc.gov/page/2018-19-school-year-enrollment-audit-report-and-data

For 18-19, there were:
480 9th graders
476 10th graders
415 11th graders
418 12th graders

Does anyone know where this number is published when it is official (count day)? I cannot find historical information on the school profile as the number of students is not broken down by grade.

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Anonymous wrote:The waitlist movement for Walls is always substantial, but it went down significantly from last year to this year (meaning less waitlist movement by June) so I do not think there is a trend against students going to Walls.

There is a trend of Wilson IB students not going to Walls.

And they did this knowing the size of the student body. People need to stop fretting over this. You can opt out if it bothers you.

Anonymous wrote:How many kids are there in each classroom?

It depends on which classes a student registers for, how many teachers there are for that particular class. etc. It's high school, not grade school.

Anonymous wrote:The waitlist movement for Walls is always substantial, but it went down significantly from last year to this year (meaning less waitlist movement by June) so I do not think there is a trend against students going to Walls.

There is a trend of Wilson IB students not going to Walls.

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Anonymous wrote:My recollection is a significant proportion of Wilson 9th graders get held back (Maybe 40%?). So the number of 9th graders each year is quite a bit bigger than the number of incoming 9th graders. You have to be careful you're doing an apples-to-apples comparison.

Recollection from what? The dream you had last night? This is complete BS.

If isn’t fake but it is probably dated and the demographic shift at Wilson has probably nearly eliminated this problem. 9th is one of the few grades in DCPS where they allow students to be held back for being below grade level.

Go back a few years and look at 5- year graduation rates and you will see the PP is not wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:My recollection is a significant proportion of Wilson 9th graders get held back (Maybe 40%?). So the number of 9th graders each year is quite a bit bigger than the number of incoming 9th graders. You have to be careful you're doing an apples-to-apples comparison.

Recollection from what? The dream you had last night? This is complete BS.

Yeah. No. Fake news.

Anonymous wrote:My recollection is a significant proportion of Wilson 9th graders get held back (Maybe 40%?). So the number of 9th graders each year is quite a bit bigger than the number of incoming 9th graders. You have to be careful you're doing an apples-to-apples comparison.

Recollection from what? The dream you had last night? This is complete BS.

The waitlist movement for Walls is always substantial, but it went down significantly from last year to this year (meaning less waitlist movement by June) so I do not think there is a trend against students going to Walls.

How many kids are there in each classroom?