Pros and Cons: Banneker - MacArthur

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On diversity, if I read the 2025 enrollment audit correctly, Banneker has 703 students, 65 white, 482 black, 22 of two or more races, 11 Asian, 122 Hispanic (shouldn’t sum with the rest).

MacArthur had 390 students, 68 white, 231 black, 16 of two or more races, 10 Asian, 65 Hispanic.

I guess maybe I’d say that’s not that MacArthur is really more diverse by individuals, it just has like 250 less black students and 50 less Hispanic students.

Mmmm. It's much more diverse by percentages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On diversity, if I read the 2025 enrollment audit correctly, Banneker has 703 students, 65 white, 482 black, 22 of two or more races, 11 Asian, 122 Hispanic (shouldn’t sum with the rest).

MacArthur had 390 students, 68 white, 231 black, 16 of two or more races, 10 Asian, 65 Hispanic.

I guess maybe I’d say that’s not that MacArthur is really more diverse by individuals, it just has like 250 less black students and 50 less Hispanic students.

Mmmm. It's much more diverse by percentages.

Is Banneker Title 1?

Beyond race, I think the class demographics at the two schools are probably very different (MacArthur U shaped, Banneker more middle class would be my guess).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banneker doesn’t operate a waitlist. (00:48 is wrong about that.) They admit everyone on match day. (Some years the process generates a waitlist. Those years they admit the whole waitlist shortly after match day.)

So OP can help their own kid make the right choice for themselves without worrying one way or the other about anyone else’s opportunities.

They've called families after Match Day, prior to BSI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On diversity, if I read the 2025 enrollment audit correctly, Banneker has 703 students, 65 white, 482 black, 22 of two or more races, 11 Asian, 122 Hispanic (shouldn’t sum with the rest).

MacArthur had 390 students, 68 white, 231 black, 16 of two or more races, 10 Asian, 65 Hispanic.

I guess maybe I’d say that’s not that MacArthur is really more diverse by individuals, it just has like 250 less black students and 50 less Hispanic students.

Mmmm. It's much more diverse by percentages.

Is Banneker Title 1?

Beyond race, I think the class demographics at the two schools are probably very different (MacArthur U shaped, Banneker more middle class would be my guess).

Yes, its a Title 1 school.

[Anonymous]

The upcoming school year is the first year a lot of Hardy kids will be going to MacArthur bc they don’t have the Jackson Reed choice anymore. I do know people with kids at MacArthur and they are all happy there. One transferred from JR and likes MacArthur better. MacArthur is small size and for the most part, amazing teachers. I know kids at MacArthur taking up to 5 AP’s.