Good PK-3 schools in DC?
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Anonymous
| Look into Langley. It's a pretty good school, just doesn't fill up with IB kids because it has a particularly roomy building. We have a lot of people from your area. |
Anonymous
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If OP is looking to stay at a school through 5th and isn’t willing to try Noyes for PK3, then there is likely a small handful of charter/non boundary schools that she has any chance at all of getting into OOB and that she might deem acceptable depending on her thoughts on immersion and Montessori. She will need an incredibly good master number for any of them.
Non-specialty: SWS 2R 2RY (maybe) ITS CMI (maybe) If OK w/ immersion and/or Montessori: YY LAMB Stokes (+EE)(maybe) CHML Lee Probably missing something? |
Anonymous
Inspired Teaching. |
Anonymous
That’s what ITS means. |
Anonymous
| Ah Noyes. Still can’t stop thinking of the cheating scandal when I think of changing ‘No’ to ‘Yes.’ |
Anonymous
You can also do Burroughs. A lot better depending on the teacher but they are getting better...... |
Anonymous
That was so long ago, I think it is time to let it fade. |
Anonymous
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In your neighborhood, DS just started at ITS. We also got into Noyes (delicned) and Burroughs (accepted). We went to a preK meetup at the school and liked Burroughs a lot, but we got into ITS at the last minute and decided to switch since it goes up to 8th grade.
Noyes would have been fine for pre-k, and we truly did like Burroughs as well. For pre-k, you have a lot of options in this area (including Noyes). |
Anonymous
And these are the type of folks that are moving here. #sad |
Anonymous
| I’m IB for Noyes too. I recommend posting on the brookland kids list serv. I think you’ll get a more well rounded response from brookland parents than you will here. |
Anonymous
so we can get rid of the lottery according to you? The whole point of the lottery is to dance around the pockets of legacy DC kids while opening up new neighborhoods for real estate agents. The OP isn't doing anything different than all of the SE and NE parents do. |
Anonymous
Jeez, just stop with this already. Half the kids in her neighborhood go somewhere other than Noyes. Also -- where should she move to? What neighborhood in DC is as affordable as where she is now but has better inbound schools? OP, and earlier poster helpfully wrote the list below. I would tour Langley, Burroughs and Noyes and Friendship Armstrong if the location is doable for you, and consider adding at least one of the latter three as a safety. Non-specialty: SWS 2R 2RY (maybe) ITS CMI (maybe) If OK w/ immersion and/or Montessori: YY LAMB Stokes (+EE)(maybe) CHML Lee |
Anonymous
Right and if all those kids went to Noyes it would be a good school. Instead we have a bunch of newcomers who love the more affordable real estate but not all of the neighborhoods warts and by going to school elsewhere make the neighborhood school worse and confirm why a lot of natives of the neighborhood resent gentrification. If Edgewood is good enough to live in it should be good enough to send your kids to school there. |
Anonymous
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75% of students in DC public and charter schools do not attend their neighborhood school (just under half go to charter schools, and half of DCPS are in OOB, city-wide or application schools).
Give OP a break. |
Anonymous
Nope. No one listens to this BS but keep trying. |