High School Lottery: What other schools would you place on your list if your DC wants to go to ..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banneker

94% Black or Latino

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCI. Whoever said SWW is diverse is absolutely wrong. Zero % FARMS and it's application only so they cherry-pick.

31% AA, 43% white, 12% Hispanic/Latino, 8% Asian, 5% mixed race and 12% economically disadvantaged. Sounds pretty diverse to me, what am I missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI. Whoever said SWW is diverse is absolutely wrong. Zero % FARMS and it's application only so they cherry-pick.

31% AA, 43% white, 12% Hispanic/Latino, 8% Asian, 5% mixed race and 12% economically disadvantaged. Sounds pretty diverse to me, what am I missing?

NP. If you look at the public school population, 43% is definitely an over-representation (white students are 10-12% of all DC students). Economically disadvantaged students are ~70%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI. Whoever said SWW is diverse is absolutely wrong. Zero % FARMS and it's application only so they cherry-pick.

31% AA, 43% white, 12% Hispanic/Latino, 8% Asian, 5% mixed race and 12% economically disadvantaged. Sounds pretty diverse to me, what am I missing?

NP. If you look at the public school population, 43% is definitely an over-representation (white students are 10-12% of all DC students). Economically disadvantaged students are ~70%.

SWW is more diverse than qlmost every other dcps school. You need to look up the definition of diverse if you argue otherwise. It does not mean an exact match with the demographics of the total population.

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Ethnic Diversity can mean 50% Hispanic and 50% African American - when calculating the ethnic diversity score, no rank order is given on whether the school has any white students. When most white parents talk about ethnic diversity, however, they are talking about an over-representation of white students, e.g., 20% or more.

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Anonymous wrote:Ethnic Diversity can mean 50% Hispanic and 50% African American - when calculating the ethnic diversity score, no rank order is given on whether the school has any white students. When most white parents talk about ethnic diversity, however, they are talking about an over-representation of white students, e.g., 20% or more.

I don't disagree with your example but how can you say Walls is not ethnically diverse? Not to mention the number of students whose home language is not English, diversity in terms of parents who were not born in the US, etc?

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Anonymous wrote:Ethnic Diversity can mean 50% Hispanic and 50% African American - when calculating the ethnic diversity score, no rank order is given on whether the school has any white students. When most white parents talk about ethnic diversity, however, they are talking about an over-representation of white students, e.g., 20% or more.

So white students are not counted by some at all and over-counted by others?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ethnic Diversity can mean 50% Hispanic and 50% African American - when calculating the ethnic diversity score, no rank order is given on whether the school has any white students. When most white parents talk about ethnic diversity, however, they are talking about an over-representation of white students, e.g., 20% or more.

So white students are not counted by some at all and over-counted by others?

No - White students are not necessary for a school to be rated as ethnically diverse by city stats - given that white students are such a small percentage of the school age population. However, white parents are largely unlikely to put their kids in a school where white students are not some magic number percentage of the school population which seems to be somewhere above 20%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ethnic Diversity can mean 50% Hispanic and 50% African American - when calculating the ethnic diversity score, no rank order is given on whether the school has any white students. When most white parents talk about ethnic diversity, however, they are talking about an over-representation of white students, e.g., 20% or more.

So white students are not counted by some at all and over-counted by others?

No - White students are not necessary for a school to be rated as ethnically diverse by city stats - given that white students are such a small percentage of the school age population. However, white parents are largely unlikely to put their kids in a school where white students are not some magic number percentage of the school population which seems to be somewhere above 20%.

NP: The legal and academic studies I have read typically define a segregated school as one that is >80% minority. That is likely why people (experts) often talk about a school being diverse if at least >20% of the students are non-minority (white). Some studies use larger numbers of white students. Of course, in non-expert parlance, people mean a lot of different things when they talk about diversity in schools, so it can be helpful to define it before a discussion or people will talk past each other. What is the frame of reference for the ethnic diversity score you are discussing? TIA

[Anonymous]

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/landscape-of-diversity-in-dc-public-schools/

They explain that the diversity score of 50/50 Hispanic/AA is considered diverse.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all of your feedback. It seems to me the pickings are quite slim with everyone vying for the same schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all of your feedback. It seems to me the pickings are quite slim with everyone vying for the same schools.

This is the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI. Whoever said SWW is diverse is absolutely wrong. Zero % FARMS and it's application only so they cherry-pick.

31% AA, 43% white, 12% Hispanic/Latino, 8% Asian, 5% mixed race and 12% economically disadvantaged. Sounds pretty diverse to me, what am I missing?

NP. If you look at the public school population, 43% is definitely an over-representation (white students are 10-12% of all DC students). Economically disadvantaged students are ~70%.

Your reply is nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all of your feedback. It seems to me the pickings are quite slim with everyone vying for the same schools.

This is the truth.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Banneker

94% Black or Latino

That a problem? And isn't Banneker a better school than Wilson?