New Mcarthur High School

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i think the school will be a success. since its a high school (which is a big undertaking), the first few years may be somewhat transitional w staffing etc.

i think you are right. but most of the whining here is about this transition period. we're 7 years away and figure things will be ironed out by then. the school is much easier for us get to us than JR. the unreliable 30 series buses versus a short walk on reservoir. We just hope they'll renovate the trolley trail bridge by then.

I wouldn’t be worried, either if my kids were 7 years away. Nice of you to dismiss the “whining” of the parents of kids who will bear the costa of paving the way for you.

If you have a 7th or 8th grader, why not go to Jackson-Reed, if you don’t want to take a chance on MacArthur?

If you have a 6th grader or younger, why not go to a magnet?

Even without moving or going private, there are other options.

[Anonymous]

Tons of families in DC would kill to get to choose between J-R and a new, smaller high school close to home. Lots of kids have successfully navigated being in the first or second graduating classes of new high schools in the city recently. See Basis or DCI. Latin just opened a new campus too. But if it feels too entrepreneurial to you, stick with Wilson and wait and see for younger kids.

[Anonymous]

right. they arent making anyone attend as their in-boundary school until year 3. JR is sufficiently large and overcrowded that i would as a gtown/palisades/foxhall/glover park area family try the new school. i also think some families in the capitol hill area will lottery/enroll and drive there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i think the school will be a success. since its a high school (which is a big undertaking), the first few years may be somewhat transitional w staffing etc.

i think you are right. but most of the whining here is about this transition period. we're 7 years away and figure things will be ironed out by then. the school is much easier for us get to us than JR. the unreliable 30 series buses versus a short walk on reservoir. We just hope they'll renovate the trolley trail bridge by then.

I wouldn’t be worried, either if my kids were 7 years away. Nice of you to dismiss the “whining” of the parents of kids who will bear the costa of paving the way for you.

If you have a 7th or 8th grader, why not go to Jackson-Reed, if you don’t want to take a chance on MacArthur?

If you have a 6th grader or younger, why not go to a magnet?

Even without moving or going private, there are other options.

what magnet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tons of families in DC would kill to get to choose between J-R and a new, smaller high school close to home. Lots of kids have successfully navigated being in the first or second graduating classes of new high schools in the city recently. See Basis or DCI. Latin just opened a new campus too. But if it feels too entrepreneurial to you, stick with Wilson and wait and see for younger kids.

This is my perspective too! I’m not trying to be contrary or deny any reason to be critical of DCPS. Just … from the perspective of your friends over in W6, you have a really good option here. I honestly don’t think MacArthur is any worse than taking a flyer on a charter, uprooting and moving, or spending all your $$ on private. Plenty of extremely well educated and caring parents in our elementary are even chosing the IB MS. Again not saying this to gaslight about DCPS but to reassure!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tons of families in DC would kill to get to choose between J-R and a new, smaller high school close to home. Lots of kids have successfully navigated being in the first or second graduating classes of new high schools in the city recently. See Basis or DCI. Latin just opened a new campus too. But if it feels too entrepreneurial to you, stick with Wilson and wait and see for younger kids.

This is my perspective too! I’m not trying to be contrary or deny any reason to be critical of DCPS. Just … from the perspective of your friends over in W6, you have a really good option here. I honestly don’t think MacArthur is any worse than taking a flyer on a charter, uprooting and moving, or spending all your $$ on private. Plenty of extremely well educated and caring parents in our elementary are even chosing the IB MS. Again not saying this to gaslight about DCPS but to reassure!

You are talking to people who paid up to live in-bounds for J-R, not people who got a great deal in Brookland with an eye to “taking a flyer on the lottery.”

[Anonymous]

understood except JR is overcrowded to a point where its increasingly a problem. a problem to a point where depending on my kid id maybe take a flyer on the new school because it might be better (smaller for a moderately high achiever who might get lost at JR etc.). i also think they will poach some teachers from the surrounding suburban school districts. dc pays more. while the location is very inconvenient from most of dc, maybe its not so bad if you are a teacher who live in neighboring maryland or virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:right. they arent making anyone attend as their in-boundary school until year 3. JR is sufficiently large and overcrowded that i would as a gtown/palisades/foxhall/glover park area family try the new school. i also think some families in the capitol hill area will lottery/enroll and drive there.

The new HS will be a heck of a drive from Capitol Hill.
Close to an hour each way and no good public transportation.
I would be surprised if many kids from CH try to enroll there.

[Anonymous]

you’d be surprised. its 20 minutes from a lot of the hill absent traffic. a lot if hill families attend washington latin which is insubstantially closer.

[Anonymous]

How many kids are currently at Wilson?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you’d be surprised. its 20 minutes from a lot of the hill absent traffic. a lot if hill families attend washington latin which is insubstantially closer.

Absent traffic? It’s not absent traffic before or after school hours. Daytime crosstown travel is far more difficult than north-south.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many kids are currently at Wilson?

Audited enrollment, fall of:

2014, 1788
2015, 1791
2016, 1749
2017, 1825
2018, 1789
2019, 1867
2020, 1942
2021, 2062

This year is bigger than last year, probably over 2100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you’d be surprised. its 20 minutes from a lot of the hill absent traffic. a lot if hill families attend washington latin which is insubstantially closer.

Latin has a bus. But lots of Hill kids take public transportation by middle school, so they would hop on the D6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tons of families in DC would kill to get to choose between J-R and a new, smaller high school close to home. Lots of kids have successfully navigated being in the first or second graduating classes of new high schools in the city recently. See Basis or DCI. Latin just opened a new campus too. But if it feels too entrepreneurial to you, stick with Wilson and wait and see for younger kids.

This is my perspective too! I’m not trying to be contrary or deny any reason to be critical of DCPS. Just … from the perspective of your friends over in W6, you have a really good option here. I honestly don’t think MacArthur is any worse than taking a flyer on a charter, uprooting and moving, or spending all your $$ on private. Plenty of extremely well educated and caring parents in our elementary are even chosing the IB MS. Again not saying this to gaslight about DCPS but to reassure!

You are talking to people who paid up to live in-bounds for J-R, not people who got a great deal in Brookland with an eye to “taking a flyer on the lottery.”

jokes on you if you think you “paid to go inbounds” to any school your child wasn’t currently enrolled in… The point is that families that are every bit as well educated and committed to education as you are will happily fill the MacArthur spots if given the chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:right. they arent making anyone attend as their in-boundary school until year 3. JR is sufficiently large and overcrowded that i would as a gtown/palisades/foxhall/glover park area family try the new school. i also think some families in the capitol hill area will lottery/enroll and drive there.

The new HS will be a heck of a drive from Capitol Hill.
Close to an hour each way and no good public transportation.
I would be surprised if many kids from CH try to enroll there.

the d6 bus literally goes straight from the Hill to the new HS. mark my words next year DCUM will be FULL of W6ers crossing their fingers for the new HS lottery.