MacArthur is the new Walls

[Anonymous]

You heard it here first. But with Walls’ new admission “criteria”, families who wanted Walls and didn’t get in, or those who didn’t try for want a small school and don’t care as much about sports, are breaking for MacArthur. The Principal is dynamite and is poaching talent from other HS and MS. In 2 years it will be the top HS in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

How on earth would you know how people rejected from Walls are "breaking"?

[Anonymous]

How does anyone “break” for McArthur? There’s not that much rental inventory there that’s affordable.

[Anonymous]

I know 4 families who didn’t get in to Walls; all 4 are going to MA. 2 more are high on the wait list for MA and are hoping to get in. And then people I know who didn’t apply to walls (or at least didn’t tell me if they did) are on waitlist for MA and it’s their 1st choice. They are coming from Deal.

[Anonymous]

Op - “break” meaning pull away from the expected path. Aka Walls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op - “break” meaning pull away from the expected path. Aka Walls.

Breaking means the majority of them are going. As in an election, when vote totals break one way or another.

Wowie wow wow 4 people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op - “break” meaning pull away from the expected path. Aka Walls.

That's not pulling away from the expected path! It's called being rejected and going to your next best option.

[Anonymous]

You all are so grumpy. It’s great if there is another good HS option. What’s the problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know 4 families who didn’t get in to Walls; all 4 are going to MA. 2 more are high on the wait list for MA and are hoping to get in. And then people I know who didn’t apply to walls (or at least didn’t tell me if they did) are on waitlist for MA and it’s their 1st choice. They are coming from Deal.

So you mean they are zones for MA or lotteried in?

[Anonymous]

It's not easy to get there.

Are they not taking all comers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are so grumpy. It’s great if there is another good HS option. What’s the problem?

NP and it is great there is another option. But what many people on this forum fail to recognize is they live in a bubble. And knowing four people from Deal in your neighborhood going to MacArthur is not some earth shattering change. Many many kids in DC do not have MacArthur or Deal or JR as an option.

[Anonymous]

Who Can Attend MacArthur

In-Boundary Students: MacArthur is the in-boundary neighborhood school for all students living in the Hardy Middle School boundary and is the destination high school for all students attending Hardy or one of Hardy’s feeder elementary schools. Students currently attending Hardy or those who live in-boundary will have a guaranteed right to attend MacArthur and can directly enroll beginning March 31, 2023. A My School DC application is not required. To find your in-boundary school, visit enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/41.

Other Ward 3 Students: MacArthur is interested in enrolling current students from Deal MS, Oyster-Adams EC, and Jackson-Reed HS (9th grade) to help alleviate overcrowding pressures at Jackson-Reed. Interested students will automatically receive a transfer preference through the lottery. For more information about the transfer preference, visit myschooldc.org/faq/key-terms#faq-Transfer-preference.

District-Wide Students: All are welcome to apply! Students who do not attend Hardy MS or live outside of the MacArthur boundary can apply through the My School DC Lottery. Submit your high school application online at https://apply.myschooldc.dc.gov by February 1, 2023. For more information about applying to high school, visit myschooldc.org/how-apply/applying-high-school.

https://dcps.dc.gov/macarthur

[Anonymous]

Another hot piece of gossip -- I know that last year, as SWWFS helped kids apply to the application schools, they made sure that the kids also added Macarthur to their list as a backup 'didn't get into desired application school' option. I think they got a good number of kids in last year, but I don't know if they were able to this year.

i would personally totally send my kids there. the commute would be awful, though.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think MacArthur is equivalent to Walls (one is a neighborhood HS with more diversity of ability and economic background, the other is an application HS), but I’ve been hearing great things about MacArthur.

[Anonymous]

I still don’t understand how they haven’t figured out more buses to get to MacArthur. The D6 is so inconvenient for many kids who are in-bounds as well as most kids who are out of bounds.