Class Size at DCPS Brent Elementary in Capitol Hill

[Anonymous]

He isn't missed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, how long have you had children at Brent? If you talk to old timers, who've had at least one child in the school for many years, they'll tell you that Brent is becoming a victim of its own success. The building was designed to accommodate roughly 2/3 of the kids stuffed in there. Ditching PreS3 wouldn't help much, or for very long. Yet DCPS currently has no plans to renovate Brent. Principal L and parent leaders are expected to lobby like mad to for the funds to renovate to expand capacity, presumably for years to come.

The K and 1st grade classes, large cohorts, are almost entirely in-boundary kids plus OOB with siblings. Yet DCPS isn't in Brent's corner, or on the side of any elementary school mainly serving kids from UMC families in a system where more than 2/3 of students are FARMs. At this rate, Brent's enrollment will likely start to drop as crowding and large class sizes become the new norm.

DCPS is one of the country's lowest-performing urban school systems for many reasons, which sucks.

The Principal did the same thing to Janney - it increased under her tenure as she let everyone stay. The school was at capacity - but she would make space for an child who moved OOB sibling. She gets things done - but at what cost.

This happened to Stoddert - it's over 100% capacity. This also happened to Hyde years ago. More kids = more money. Many principals don't care about overwhelmed teachers and crowded classrooms. They care about their budget. And, if you say something, you are racist.

[Anonymous]

The new “focus” teacher model has increased the number of staff and requires MORE students (larger classes) to pay for them.

I feel like this detail was left out when these plans were discussed last school year.

[Anonymous]

I love Maury. Whenever I read a post from about another hill school I realize we truly won the lottery.
We embrace our OOB kids & do right by the IB folks.
No drama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Maury. Whenever I read a post from about another hill school I realize we truly won the lottery.
We embrace our OOB kids & do right by the IB folks.
No drama

Hahaha you should have seen the conversations at the boundary and feeder meetings when it was suggested to do a choice set with Maury, Miner, and Payne. Maury families were not low drama and didn't embrace OOB kids at all. What people say to each other's faces might be nicer than what's really in their hearts. It's easy to say a school embraces OOB kids when not a single OOB child matched for Maury in the lottery for at least the past 2 years.