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oyster bilingual school  

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  • James F. Oyster Elementary School, a public elementary school located in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was built in 1926 as a 10-class-room school to accommodate 240 students. By the late 1960s, it was a school in decline, serving a predominantly White population that was aging and/or moving to the surrounding suburbs of Maryland. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Oyster Bilingual School]

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