Can we please stop with the JKLM

[Anonymous]

They are not the best or most sought after schools. There are plenty of other excellent schools, which in some instances rate higher, than those schools - look at the most recent PARCC scores. I don't understand this forum's obsession.

[Anonymous]

What is JKLM?

[Anonymous]

I haven't seen that abbreviation on here in a while.

I think people talk about a lot of elementary schools throughout the city that are great. We live in NE and I don't feel like people put down the elementaries here. Many are very sought after.

But what you will continue to see is a preference for Deal/Hardy, and JR/maybe McArthur. Because while people like the elementaries on this side of town, and there is increasing acceptance of some of the middle schools, the HS situation outside JR/McArthur is b-a-d. Sorry. I say that as someone zoned for Dunbar with lots of friends zoned for Eastern. It's a bad situation and no one knows how to fix it. Yeah yeah yeah, I know -- if you just got inbound families to buy in, it would change. But you can't get a critical mass of IB families to buy in. Trust me, we have these conversations all the time. Even people who are sticking with DCPS for middle, when push comes to shove, they by and large choose charters/application schools/private/moving over high school. The number of families willing to go to a school like Eastern, even after attending and liking SH or E-H for middle, is minuscule. And the needle isn't moving.

So you will continue to see more focus on JR/McArthur triangles on these boards. Or discussions of Latin, Basis, Walls, Banneker. Or people decamping for the suburbs or looking a private for HS.

[Anonymous]

Why does it bother you so much?

-someone that cannot afford those schools

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

3 out of 4 of the schools in JKLM are still the best in terms of PARCC scores. Key and Janney are in top 5 for both ELA and Math. Ross is too, even though it's not JKLM, so maybe we should change it to JKLR
OP, what makes you think they are not sought after?

Average ELA Score by School (Top 60 Schools)
School Without Walls High School 94.07
Benjamin Banneker High School 88.62
Janney Elementary School 88.19
Ross Elementary School 86.66
Key Elementary School 80.25

Average Math Score by School (Top 60)
Stoddert Elementary School 83.05
Janney Elementary School 81.57
Lafayette Elementary School 81.36
Ross Elementary School 78.33
Key Elementary School 73.88

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are not the best or most sought after schools. There are plenty of other excellent schools, which in some instances rate higher, than those schools - look at the most recent PARCC scores. I don't understand this forum's obsession.

Yes, they are. And they feed into the best MS. And Best HSs.

-Someone who almost bought a house IB for JKLM before they got lucky in lottery

[Anonymous]

I’ve only seen this abbreviation once or twice before. What’s it mean??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve only seen this abbreviation once or twice before. What’s it mean??

Janney, Key, Lafayette, Murch (or Mann? not sure).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve only seen this abbreviation once or twice before. What’s it mean??

Janney, Key, Lafayette, Murch (or Mann? not sure).

Thank you.

I’m new to dcps and it also took me forever to figure out what “HRCS” means, though it seems like it has morphed a lot from the original post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are not the best or most sought after schools. There are plenty of other excellent schools, which in some instances rate higher, than those schools - look at the most recent PARCC scores. I don't understand this forum's obsession.

Yes, they are. And they feed into the best MS. And Best HSs.

-Someone who almost bought a house IB for JKLM before they got lucky in lottery

+1

Someone who purposely bought in-bound for a JKLM so I wouldn't have to worry about a lottery.

[Anonymous]

What is JKLM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3 out of 4 of the schools in JKLM are still the best in terms of PARCC scores. Key and Janney are in top 5 for both ELA and Math. Ross is too, even though it's not JKLM, so maybe we should change it to JKLR
OP, what makes you think they are not sought after?

Average ELA Score by School (Top 60 Schools)
School Without Walls High School 94.07
Benjamin Banneker High School 88.62
Janney Elementary School 88.19
Ross Elementary School 86.66
Key Elementary School 80.25

Average Math Score by School (Top 60)
Stoddert Elementary School 83.05
Janney Elementary School 81.57
Lafayette Elementary School 81.36
Ross Elementary School 78.33
Key Elementary School 73.88

What happened to Mann this year?

[Anonymous]

JKLM doesn't bother me. But in looking at the PARCC results, HRCS could use some reevaluating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are not the best or most sought after schools. There are plenty of other excellent schools, which in some instances rate higher, than those schools - look at the most recent PARCC scores. I don't understand this forum's obsession.

I suspect the forum's obsession with JKLM schools is related to where people who post on here live.