Interesting. Even if you throw in 9 kids for Cleveland, that's only 48 kids. Even with feeder rights to a pretty well established and decently reputable school, that's actually not a ton of kids. Assuming you get another 20 from Cooke/Marie Reed/Tubman who also will have programatic feeder rights to the new Euclid Middle school (they each sent <10 to their temporary programatic feeder this year, MacFarland), that's only 68 kids. They're going to have to take a LOT of out of bounds kids to fill this new Euclid Middle School. |
I live OOB and am definitely going to consider it when the time comes. We are IB for McKinley Middle so there's a good chance Euclid St could be better. |
| Is Euclid going to be a language school? |
Keep in mind that many parents of this year's 6th graders have been thinking about middle school pathways for awhile. Families likely peeled off to more desirable feeders before they knew about the temporary John Francis feed. If parents see Euclid as a viable option early on in their child's academic career, Euclid could see more buy in than John Francis did this year. |
No. Cleveland has a language feeder track to MacFarland. |
Except that more than double the number of Brent kids stayed for 5th as recently as 4 years ago... I wonder what changed... Oh wait, literally the year the stupid upper school was introduced. |
I wonder if DCPS will give a preference to the Garrison/Seaton/Cleveland students to both schools for a while (the way that Hardy students could choose between JR and MacArthur for a few years.) |
Doubtful. The whole point here is that this school is supposed to be more appealing than Cardozo Middle ever was. |
Submitted too soon. Macarthur is way less appealing than JR, and as JR is a four-year school there are more siblings than a three-year school would have. |
They could make Francis Stevens pk-5 and have a decent sized middle school with a bunch of feeders. |
Numbers don't lie. Some certainly attributable to renovation but JOW also in swing space this year. Brent: 13 of 66 stayed for 5th 19.6% Maury: 67 of 92 stayed for 5th 72.8% JOW: 42 of 60 stayed for 5th 70% Tyler: 55 of 72 stayed for 5th 76.4% Amidon: 47 of 65 stayed for 5th 72.3% Watkins: 75 of 98 stayed for 5th 76.5% Payne: 36 of 48 stayed for 5th 75% Ludlow: 48 of 77 stayed for 5th 62.3% |
If they did, it would totally kill Euclid, and Euclid isn't off to a great start as it is. If John-Francis didn't get more buy in, I'd worry even more about Euclid. |
| No wonder Basis 5th has been the Brent mafia this year. |
That LT number is way off. That grade was tiny. Definitely didn’t have over 25 kids in a class… more like 18. Where did you get the denominators from? |
Sorry, I misunderstood. This is the kids back in 5th grade this year? There were 21-22 4th graders in a class last year, so 48 of 65 or so would be my guess. Perhaps it’s 67 with the self contained class and that’s a typo for 48 of 67? |