Parents and teachers at School Without Walls Senior High School are upset that they were not included in the D.C. school system’s decision to merge the District’s top-performing high school with the underenrolled Francis-Stevens Education Campus.

Francis-Stevens, which serves students in preschool through eighth grade, was on the original list of 20 schools that DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson proposed to close in June. In response, parents developed a plan to improve academic programs and bolster enrollment from 218 students this year to 294 next year and eventually 464 — 54 above the school’s intended capacity — in the 2016-2017 school year.

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