Data Goldmine: YoY Enrollment Patterns by School

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, interesting that the folks who say Maury is increasingly sending kids to E-H appear to be right! 27 kids went from Maury to E-H last year?? Only 12 from Payne though, which is interesting...

S-H has decent buy-in from across its feeders, if still quite Watkins slanted (27 L-T, 29 JOW, 56 Watkins). That's definitely a foundation to grow from though.

Jefferson... all the people claiming Brent families were going there in any kind of numbers? Not even a little. Sub-10. Wow.

Current Payne 3rd and 5th grade parent here - class of 2022 at Payne was only maybe 17 kids - not because of exodus to charters, just a small grade. In general, Payne is a smaller school - only two classes per grade (except for ECE w/ 3 classes per grade) Current 5th grade class is over 40 kids and a good number of us will be at EH next year.

Maury 5th parent here. Your 5th is the same size as ours! So you think at least 30 will go? I’m actually getting a little excited.

Ah, interesting the 5th grades are the same size. Last year I think we had one 4th grade student leave for a charter, I am not sure if that will continue to be the trend or if we will start seeing the 4th/5th drop at Payne that other schools see. I don't know all of the parents well enough to ask them about next year, but so far I have only heard of one child who will not be at EH next year.
Either way, there is a lot of positive talk about the school, definitely more than a few years ago. And like somebody else said, I think part of that is due to the Principal and the strong community they seem to be building. In the past few weeks we have been at the school for their Basketball Fever feeder event and their production of Moana, and our kids really enjoyed them.

LOL. I can name at least five students in our charter who left Maury after fourth grade.

Oh, sorry, are you saying you're at Payne. If so, I take that back.

More Maury families will start to stay through 5th and EH. Probably most will jump for Latin, but Basis is not broadly appealing, and at this point, most will chose EH over the other charters like TR, ITS.

BASIS is not broadly appealing? What are you talking about? BASIS is basically a who's who of Capitol Hill elementary schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not know. The data says Jefferson 6th grade this year had 27 students from Van Ness, 16 from Tyler, and 22 from Amidon. I think the trend is somewhat similar to EH. It is just not driven by Brent.

+1. And I don’t see any recent posts actually claiming that lots of Brent kids go to Jefferson. So I’m not sure who that other poster is arguing with.

I think the brightness of Jefferson’s future will have little to do with how many Brent parents choose the school. And I say this as the parent of a Jefferson kid who came from Brent.

Looking at A-B’s PARCC scores and, tbh, VN’s to a lesser extent, I’m not sure a heavy feed from those schools is likely to be a positive for those looking for academic rigor.

Whatever. The point was made that Jefferson and Eliot-Hine are similarly situated. And if PARCC scores are your thing, then that is certainly true with respect to the two schools.

The point was that they are not similar situated in terms of momentum from ESes w/ substantial UMC populations. Maury and Payne both have larger UMC & smaller at-risk populations than VN, A-B and Tyler (esp non-Spanish track). Also, Payne is gentrifying quickly; VN has been moving the other direction. Buy-in from Maury (especially) and Payne is not the same as buy-in from the non-Brent Jefferson feeders in terms of momentum for academic rigor/a cohort of kids on/ahead of grade level.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not know. The data says Jefferson 6th grade this year had 27 students from Van Ness, 16 from Tyler, and 22 from Amidon. I think the trend is somewhat similar to EH. It is just not driven by Brent.

+1. And I don’t see any recent posts actually claiming that lots of Brent kids go to Jefferson. So I’m not sure who that other poster is arguing with.

I think the brightness of Jefferson’s future will have little to do with how many Brent parents choose the school. And I say this as the parent of a Jefferson kid who came from Brent.

Looking at A-B’s PARCC scores and, tbh, VN’s to a lesser extent, I’m not sure a heavy feed from those schools is likely to be a positive for those looking for academic rigor.

Whatever. The point was made that Jefferson and Eliot-Hine are similarly situated. And if PARCC scores are your thing, then that is certainly true with respect to the two schools.

The point was that they are not similar situated in terms of momentum from ESes w/ substantial UMC populations. Maury and Payne both have larger UMC & smaller at-risk populations than VN, A-B and Tyler (esp non-Spanish track). Also, Payne is gentrifying quickly; VN has been moving the other direction. Buy-in from Maury (especially) and Payne is not the same as buy-in from the non-Brent Jefferson feeders in terms of momentum for academic rigor/a cohort of kids on/ahead of grade level.

NP. +1000 Pretty much nailed it. The denial is strong with the Brent folks. Otherwise intelligent people seem unwilling to see what is plainly there.

-Signed, Someone not IB for any of these schools without a horse in this race

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I do think there was a demographic oddity in this year's Brent would-be-5th grade where there were a TON of Latin siblings. Watkins, on the other hand, had a lot of Basis siblings, but it's a really big school and its 5th graders almost uniformly go to SH, so it still had a big feed there. It will be interesting to see what next year's data looks like.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not know. The data says Jefferson 6th grade this year had 27 students from Van Ness, 16 from Tyler, and 22 from Amidon. I think the trend is somewhat similar to EH. It is just not driven by Brent.

+1. And I don’t see any recent posts actually claiming that lots of Brent kids go to Jefferson. So I’m not sure who that other poster is arguing with.

I think the brightness of Jefferson’s future will have little to do with how many Brent parents choose the school. And I say this as the parent of a Jefferson kid who came from Brent.

Looking at A-B’s PARCC scores and, tbh, VN’s to a lesser extent, I’m not sure a heavy feed from those schools is likely to be a positive for those looking for academic rigor.

Whatever. The point was made that Jefferson and Eliot-Hine are similarly situated. And if PARCC scores are your thing, then that is certainly true with respect to the two schools.

The point was that they are not similar situated in terms of momentum from ESes w/ substantial UMC populations. Maury and Payne both have larger UMC & smaller at-risk populations than VN, A-B and Tyler (esp non-Spanish track). Also, Payne is gentrifying quickly; VN has been moving the other direction. Buy-in from Maury (especially) and Payne is not the same as buy-in from the non-Brent Jefferson feeders in terms of momentum for academic rigor/a cohort of kids on/ahead of grade level.

NP. +1000 Pretty much nailed it. The denial is strong with the Brent folks. Otherwise intelligent people seem unwilling to see what is plainly there.

-Signed, Someone not IB for any of these schools without a horse in this race

It's the same reason folks will be more interested in the size of the L-T feed to SH than the JOW feed. (I also think that JOW could see a huge spike in IB buy-in once the renovation is complete, esp with the unrest at TR, which could change things there. But right now it's so heavily OOB, that its feed to SH isn't of that much interest.)

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, interesting that the folks who say Maury is increasingly sending kids to E-H appear to be right! 27 kids went from Maury to E-H last year?? Only 12 from Payne though, which is interesting...

S-H has decent buy-in from across its feeders, if still quite Watkins slanted (27 L-T, 29 JOW, 56 Watkins). That's definitely a foundation to grow from though.

Jefferson... all the people claiming Brent families were going there in any kind of numbers? Not even a little. Sub-10. Wow.

Current Payne 3rd and 5th grade parent here - class of 2022 at Payne was only maybe 17 kids - not because of exodus to charters, just a small grade. In general, Payne is a smaller school - only two classes per grade (except for ECE w/ 3 classes per grade) Current 5th grade class is over 40 kids and a good number of us will be at EH next year.

Maury 5th parent here. Your 5th is the same size as ours! So you think at least 30 will go? I’m actually getting a little excited.

Ah, interesting the 5th grades are the same size. Last year I think we had one 4th grade student leave for a charter, I am not sure if that will continue to be the trend or if we will start seeing the 4th/5th drop at Payne that other schools see. I don't know all of the parents well enough to ask them about next year, but so far I have only heard of one child who will not be at EH next year.
Either way, there is a lot of positive talk about the school, definitely more than a few years ago. And like somebody else said, I think part of that is due to the Principal and the strong community they seem to be building. In the past few weeks we have been at the school for their Basketball Fever feeder event and their production of Moana, and our kids really enjoyed them.

LOL. I can name at least five students in our charter who left Maury after fourth grade.

Oh, sorry, are you saying you're at Payne. If so, I take that back.

More Maury families will start to stay through 5th and EH. Probably most will jump for Latin, but Basis is not broadly appealing, and at this point, most will chose EH over the other charters like TR, ITS.

I respect the heck out of your willingness to gaslight on a thread that started with the data that shows what you said is simply incorrect. Both Latin and BASIS show N<10 so there is no way to know for sure how many went to each. Anecdotally there are 8 or so kids at BASIS this year from Maury. Even if you discount the number of Maury kids in BASIS's building this year, what you wrote is not supported by the actual data.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not know. The data says Jefferson 6th grade this year had 27 students from Van Ness, 16 from Tyler, and 22 from Amidon. I think the trend is somewhat similar to EH. It is just not driven by Brent.

+1. And I don’t see any recent posts actually claiming that lots of Brent kids go to Jefferson. So I’m not sure who that other poster is arguing with.

I think the brightness of Jefferson’s future will have little to do with how many Brent parents choose the school. And I say this as the parent of a Jefferson kid who came from Brent.

Looking at A-B’s PARCC scores and, tbh, VN’s to a lesser extent, I’m not sure a heavy feed from those schools is likely to be a positive for those looking for academic rigor.

Whatever. The point was made that Jefferson and Eliot-Hine are similarly situated. And if PARCC scores are your thing, then that is certainly true with respect to the two schools.

The point was that they are not similar situated in terms of momentum from ESes w/ substantial UMC populations. Maury and Payne both have larger UMC & smaller at-risk populations than VN, A-B and Tyler (esp non-Spanish track). Also, Payne is gentrifying quickly; VN has been moving the other direction. Buy-in from Maury (especially) and Payne is not the same as buy-in from the non-Brent Jefferson feeders in terms of momentum for academic rigor/a cohort of kids on/ahead of grade level.

NP. +1000 Pretty much nailed it. The denial is strong with the Brent folks. Otherwise intelligent people seem unwilling to see what is plainly there.

-Signed, Someone not IB for any of these schools without a horse in this race

It's the same reason folks will be more interested in the size of the L-T feed to SH than the JOW feed. (I also think that JOW could see a huge spike in IB buy-in once the renovation is complete, esp with the unrest at TR, which could change things there. But right now it's so heavily OOB, that its feed to SH isn't of that much interest.)

OMG. You and I need to have a glass of wine. Totally agree. JOW is a sleeping giant once the reno is complete. TR4 is basically a local school right now. As the upper ES and MS of TR are increasingly exposed I think a lot of families are going to choose a beautiful brand new building with an amazing playground and a path to SH over a TR in decline.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not know. The data says Jefferson 6th grade this year had 27 students from Van Ness, 16 from Tyler, and 22 from Amidon. I think the trend is somewhat similar to EH. It is just not driven by Brent.

+1. And I don’t see any recent posts actually claiming that lots of Brent kids go to Jefferson. So I’m not sure who that other poster is arguing with.

I think the brightness of Jefferson’s future will have little to do with how many Brent parents choose the school. And I say this as the parent of a Jefferson kid who came from Brent.

Looking at A-B’s PARCC scores and, tbh, VN’s to a lesser extent, I’m not sure a heavy feed from those schools is likely to be a positive for those looking for academic rigor.

Whatever. The point was made that Jefferson and Eliot-Hine are similarly situated. And if PARCC scores are your thing, then that is certainly true with respect to the two schools.

The point was that they are not similar situated in terms of momentum from ESes w/ substantial UMC populations. Maury and Payne both have larger UMC & smaller at-risk populations than VN, A-B and Tyler (esp non-Spanish track). Also, Payne is gentrifying quickly; VN has been moving the other direction. Buy-in from Maury (especially) and Payne is not the same as buy-in from the non-Brent Jefferson feeders in terms of momentum for academic rigor/a cohort of kids on/ahead of grade level.

NP. +1000 Pretty much nailed it. The denial is strong with the Brent folks. Otherwise intelligent people seem unwilling to see what is plainly there.

-Signed, Someone not IB for any of these schools without a horse in this race

It's the same reason folks will be more interested in the size of the L-T feed to SH than the JOW feed. (I also think that JOW could see a huge spike in IB buy-in once the renovation is complete, esp with the unrest at TR, which could change things there. But right now it's so heavily OOB, that its feed to SH isn't of that much interest.)

OMG. You and I need to have a glass of wine. Totally agree. JOW is a sleeping giant once the reno is complete. TR4 is basically a local school right now. As the upper ES and MS of TR are increasingly exposed I think a lot of families are going to choose a beautiful brand new building with an amazing playground and a path to SH over a TR in decline.

Me three. There are SO many TR students coming into ITS, but they can't all fit at ITS, so JOW and LT will be the winners.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not know. The data says Jefferson 6th grade this year had 27 students from Van Ness, 16 from Tyler, and 22 from Amidon. I think the trend is somewhat similar to EH. It is just not driven by Brent.

+1. And I don’t see any recent posts actually claiming that lots of Brent kids go to Jefferson. So I’m not sure who that other poster is arguing with.

I think the brightness of Jefferson’s future will have little to do with how many Brent parents choose the school. And I say this as the parent of a Jefferson kid who came from Brent.

Looking at A-B’s PARCC scores and, tbh, VN’s to a lesser extent, I’m not sure a heavy feed from those schools is likely to be a positive for those looking for academic rigor.

Whatever. The point was made that Jefferson and Eliot-Hine are similarly situated. And if PARCC scores are your thing, then that is certainly true with respect to the two schools.

The point was that they are not similar situated in terms of momentum from ESes w/ substantial UMC populations. Maury and Payne both have larger UMC & smaller at-risk populations than VN, A-B and Tyler (esp non-Spanish track). Also, Payne is gentrifying quickly; VN has been moving the other direction. Buy-in from Maury (especially) and Payne is not the same as buy-in from the non-Brent Jefferson feeders in terms of momentum for academic rigor/a cohort of kids on/ahead of grade level.

NP. +1000 Pretty much nailed it. The denial is strong with the Brent folks. Otherwise intelligent people seem unwilling to see what is plainly there.

-Signed, Someone not IB for any of these schools without a horse in this race

It's the same reason folks will be more interested in the size of the L-T feed to SH than the JOW feed. (I also think that JOW could see a huge spike in IB buy-in once the renovation is complete, esp with the unrest at TR, which could change things there. But right now it's so heavily OOB, that its feed to SH isn't of that much interest.)

OMG. You and I need to have a glass of wine. Totally agree. JOW is a sleeping giant once the reno is complete. TR4 is basically a local school right now. As the upper ES and MS of TR are increasingly exposed I think a lot of families are going to choose a beautiful brand new building with an amazing playground and a path to SH over a TR in decline.

This. Both TR campuses and the MS are a complete disaster. JOW should be poised to grow.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not know. The data says Jefferson 6th grade this year had 27 students from Van Ness, 16 from Tyler, and 22 from Amidon. I think the trend is somewhat similar to EH. It is just not driven by Brent.

+1. And I don’t see any recent posts actually claiming that lots of Brent kids go to Jefferson. So I’m not sure who that other poster is arguing with.

I think the brightness of Jefferson’s future will have little to do with how many Brent parents choose the school. And I say this as the parent of a Jefferson kid who came from Brent.

Looking at A-B’s PARCC scores and, tbh, VN’s to a lesser extent, I’m not sure a heavy feed from those schools is likely to be a positive for those looking for academic rigor.

Whatever. The point was made that Jefferson and Eliot-Hine are similarly situated. And if PARCC scores are your thing, then that is certainly true with respect to the two schools.

The point was that they are not similar situated in terms of momentum from ESes w/ substantial UMC populations. Maury and Payne both have larger UMC & smaller at-risk populations than VN, A-B and Tyler (esp non-Spanish track). Also, Payne is gentrifying quickly; VN has been moving the other direction. Buy-in from Maury (especially) and Payne is not the same as buy-in from the non-Brent Jefferson feeders in terms of momentum for academic rigor/a cohort of kids on/ahead of grade level.

NP. +1000 Pretty much nailed it. The denial is strong with the Brent folks. Otherwise intelligent people seem unwilling to see what is plainly there.

-Signed, Someone not IB for any of these schools without a horse in this race

It's the same reason folks will be more interested in the size of the L-T feed to SH than the JOW feed. (I also think that JOW could see a huge spike in IB buy-in once the renovation is complete, esp with the unrest at TR, which could change things there. But right now it's so heavily OOB, that its feed to SH isn't of that much interest.)

OMG. You and I need to have a glass of wine. Totally agree. JOW is a sleeping giant once the reno is complete. TR4 is basically a local school right now. As the upper ES and MS of TR are increasingly exposed I think a lot of families are going to choose a beautiful brand new building with an amazing playground and a path to SH over a TR in decline.

This. Both TR campuses and the MS are a complete disaster. JOW should be poised to grow.

The sparkle is off Lee as well (and the sparkle was never on SSMA). I wish JOW a tush in every seat!

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, interesting that the folks who say Maury is increasingly sending kids to E-H appear to be right! 27 kids went from Maury to E-H last year?? Only 12 from Payne though, which is interesting...

S-H has decent buy-in from across its feeders, if still quite Watkins slanted (27 L-T, 29 JOW, 56 Watkins). That's definitely a foundation to grow from though.

Jefferson... all the people claiming Brent families were going there in any kind of numbers? Not even a little. Sub-10. Wow.

Current Payne 3rd and 5th grade parent here - class of 2022 at Payne was only maybe 17 kids - not because of exodus to charters, just a small grade. In general, Payne is a smaller school - only two classes per grade (except for ECE w/ 3 classes per grade) Current 5th grade class is over 40 kids and a good number of us will be at EH next year.

Maury 5th parent here. Your 5th is the same size as ours! So you think at least 30 will go? I’m actually getting a little excited.

Ah, interesting the 5th grades are the same size. Last year I think we had one 4th grade student leave for a charter, I am not sure if that will continue to be the trend or if we will start seeing the 4th/5th drop at Payne that other schools see. I don't know all of the parents well enough to ask them about next year, but so far I have only heard of one child who will not be at EH next year.
Either way, there is a lot of positive talk about the school, definitely more than a few years ago. And like somebody else said, I think part of that is due to the Principal and the strong community they seem to be building. In the past few weeks we have been at the school for their Basketball Fever feeder event and their production of Moana, and our kids really enjoyed them.

LOL. I can name at least five students in our charter who left Maury after fourth grade.

Oh, sorry, are you saying you're at Payne. If so, I take that back.

More Maury families will start to stay through 5th and EH. Probably most will jump for Latin, but Basis is not broadly appealing, and at this point, most will chose EH over the other charters like TR, ITS.

BASIS is not broadly appealing? What are you talking about? BASIS is basically a who's who of Capitol Hill elementary schools.

I have no issue with Basis and am happy for families who like it. But no, it is not broadly appealing. Many parents don't want it and would much prefer a solid DCPS MS.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, interesting that the folks who say Maury is increasingly sending kids to E-H appear to be right! 27 kids went from Maury to E-H last year?? Only 12 from Payne though, which is interesting...

S-H has decent buy-in from across its feeders, if still quite Watkins slanted (27 L-T, 29 JOW, 56 Watkins). That's definitely a foundation to grow from though.

Jefferson... all the people claiming Brent families were going there in any kind of numbers? Not even a little. Sub-10. Wow.

Current Payne 3rd and 5th grade parent here - class of 2022 at Payne was only maybe 17 kids - not because of exodus to charters, just a small grade. In general, Payne is a smaller school - only two classes per grade (except for ECE w/ 3 classes per grade) Current 5th grade class is over 40 kids and a good number of us will be at EH next year.

Maury 5th parent here. Your 5th is the same size as ours! So you think at least 30 will go? I’m actually getting a little excited.

Ah, interesting the 5th grades are the same size. Last year I think we had one 4th grade student leave for a charter, I am not sure if that will continue to be the trend or if we will start seeing the 4th/5th drop at Payne that other schools see. I don't know all of the parents well enough to ask them about next year, but so far I have only heard of one child who will not be at EH next year.
Either way, there is a lot of positive talk about the school, definitely more than a few years ago. And like somebody else said, I think part of that is due to the Principal and the strong community they seem to be building. In the past few weeks we have been at the school for their Basketball Fever feeder event and their production of Moana, and our kids really enjoyed them.

LOL. I can name at least five students in our charter who left Maury after fourth grade.

Oh, sorry, are you saying you're at Payne. If so, I take that back.

More Maury families will start to stay through 5th and EH. Probably most will jump for Latin, but Basis is not broadly appealing, and at this point, most will chose EH over the other charters like TR, ITS.

BASIS is not broadly appealing? What are you talking about? BASIS is basically a who's who of Capitol Hill elementary schools.

I have no issue with Basis and am happy for families who like it. But no, it is not broadly appealing. Many parents don't want it and would much prefer a solid DCPS MS.

Well the data says otherwise, but ok…

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, interesting that the folks who say Maury is increasingly sending kids to E-H appear to be right! 27 kids went from Maury to E-H last year?? Only 12 from Payne though, which is interesting...

S-H has decent buy-in from across its feeders, if still quite Watkins slanted (27 L-T, 29 JOW, 56 Watkins). That's definitely a foundation to grow from though.

Jefferson... all the people claiming Brent families were going there in any kind of numbers? Not even a little. Sub-10. Wow.

Current Payne 3rd and 5th grade parent here - class of 2022 at Payne was only maybe 17 kids - not because of exodus to charters, just a small grade. In general, Payne is a smaller school - only two classes per grade (except for ECE w/ 3 classes per grade) Current 5th grade class is over 40 kids and a good number of us will be at EH next year.

Maury 5th parent here. Your 5th is the same size as ours! So you think at least 30 will go? I’m actually getting a little excited.

Ah, interesting the 5th grades are the same size. Last year I think we had one 4th grade student leave for a charter, I am not sure if that will continue to be the trend or if we will start seeing the 4th/5th drop at Payne that other schools see. I don't know all of the parents well enough to ask them about next year, but so far I have only heard of one child who will not be at EH next year.
Either way, there is a lot of positive talk about the school, definitely more than a few years ago. And like somebody else said, I think part of that is due to the Principal and the strong community they seem to be building. In the past few weeks we have been at the school for their Basketball Fever feeder event and their production of Moana, and our kids really enjoyed them.

LOL. I can name at least five students in our charter who left Maury after fourth grade.

Oh, sorry, are you saying you're at Payne. If so, I take that back.

More Maury families will start to stay through 5th and EH. Probably most will jump for Latin, but Basis is not broadly appealing, and at this point, most will chose EH over the other charters like TR, ITS.

BASIS is not broadly appealing? What are you talking about? BASIS is basically a who's who of Capitol Hill elementary schools.

I have no issue with Basis and am happy for families who like it. But no, it is not broadly appealing. Many parents don't want it and would much prefer a solid DCPS MS.

Well the data says otherwise, but ok…

The data shows that a handful of kids went from Maury to Basis, but almost 3/4 of the 5th grade class did. And I have talked to plenty of parents (both at Basis and not) who are definitely not thrilled with Basis. Again - I have NO issue with Basis and think it serves and important niche. But it's truly not the first choice of most Hill parents. Most would take Latin over Basis. And most would take a viable DCPS MS over either. That's why an increasing number are going to be enrolling at EH.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, interesting that the folks who say Maury is increasingly sending kids to E-H appear to be right! 27 kids went from Maury to E-H last year?? Only 12 from Payne though, which is interesting...

S-H has decent buy-in from across its feeders, if still quite Watkins slanted (27 L-T, 29 JOW, 56 Watkins). That's definitely a foundation to grow from though.

Jefferson... all the people claiming Brent families were going there in any kind of numbers? Not even a little. Sub-10. Wow.

Current Payne 3rd and 5th grade parent here - class of 2022 at Payne was only maybe 17 kids - not because of exodus to charters, just a small grade. In general, Payne is a smaller school - only two classes per grade (except for ECE w/ 3 classes per grade) Current 5th grade class is over 40 kids and a good number of us will be at EH next year.

Maury 5th parent here. Your 5th is the same size as ours! So you think at least 30 will go? I’m actually getting a little excited.

Ah, interesting the 5th grades are the same size. Last year I think we had one 4th grade student leave for a charter, I am not sure if that will continue to be the trend or if we will start seeing the 4th/5th drop at Payne that other schools see. I don't know all of the parents well enough to ask them about next year, but so far I have only heard of one child who will not be at EH next year.
Either way, there is a lot of positive talk about the school, definitely more than a few years ago. And like somebody else said, I think part of that is due to the Principal and the strong community they seem to be building. In the past few weeks we have been at the school for their Basketball Fever feeder event and their production of Moana, and our kids really enjoyed them.

LOL. I can name at least five students in our charter who left Maury after fourth grade.

Oh, sorry, are you saying you're at Payne. If so, I take that back.

More Maury families will start to stay through 5th and EH. Probably most will jump for Latin, but Basis is not broadly appealing, and at this point, most will chose EH over the other charters like TR, ITS.

BASIS is not broadly appealing? What are you talking about? BASIS is basically a who's who of Capitol Hill elementary schools.

I have no issue with Basis and am happy for families who like it. But no, it is not broadly appealing. Many parents don't want it and would much prefer a solid DCPS MS.

Well the data says otherwise, but ok…

The data shows that a handful of kids went from Maury to Basis, but almost 3/4 of the 5th grade class did. And I have talked to plenty of parents (both at Basis and not) who are definitely not thrilled with Basis. Again - I have NO issue with Basis and think it serves and important niche. But it's truly not the first choice of most Hill parents. Most would take Latin over Basis. And most would take a viable DCPS MS over either. That's why an increasing number are going to be enrolling at EH.

*almost 3/4th of the 5th grade class went to EH.*

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, interesting that the folks who say Maury is increasingly sending kids to E-H appear to be right! 27 kids went from Maury to E-H last year?? Only 12 from Payne though, which is interesting...

S-H has decent buy-in from across its feeders, if still quite Watkins slanted (27 L-T, 29 JOW, 56 Watkins). That's definitely a foundation to grow from though.

Jefferson... all the people claiming Brent families were going there in any kind of numbers? Not even a little. Sub-10. Wow.

Current Payne 3rd and 5th grade parent here - class of 2022 at Payne was only maybe 17 kids - not because of exodus to charters, just a small grade. In general, Payne is a smaller school - only two classes per grade (except for ECE w/ 3 classes per grade) Current 5th grade class is over 40 kids and a good number of us will be at EH next year.

Maury 5th parent here. Your 5th is the same size as ours! So you think at least 30 will go? I’m actually getting a little excited.

Ah, interesting the 5th grades are the same size. Last year I think we had one 4th grade student leave for a charter, I am not sure if that will continue to be the trend or if we will start seeing the 4th/5th drop at Payne that other schools see. I don't know all of the parents well enough to ask them about next year, but so far I have only heard of one child who will not be at EH next year.
Either way, there is a lot of positive talk about the school, definitely more than a few years ago. And like somebody else said, I think part of that is due to the Principal and the strong community they seem to be building. In the past few weeks we have been at the school for their Basketball Fever feeder event and their production of Moana, and our kids really enjoyed them.

LOL. I can name at least five students in our charter who left Maury after fourth grade.

Oh, sorry, are you saying you're at Payne. If so, I take that back.

More Maury families will start to stay through 5th and EH. Probably most will jump for Latin, but Basis is not broadly appealing, and at this point, most will chose EH over the other charters like TR, ITS.

BASIS is not broadly appealing? What are you talking about? BASIS is basically a who's who of Capitol Hill elementary schools.

I have no issue with Basis and am happy for families who like it. But no, it is not broadly appealing. Many parents don't want it and would much prefer a solid DCPS MS.

Well the data says otherwise, but ok…

People go to BASIS because it's their best option. That doesn't mean they love it. Look at the Cooper waitlist if you're wondering how many people are interested in alternatives to BASIS.