Best Cap Hill elementary to middle?

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Anonymous wrote:Ludlow Taylor to Stuart Hobson without question. (Most elementary schools are good, but most middles have a long way to go.)

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Anonymous wrote:Ludlow Taylor to Stuart Hobson without question. (Most elementary schools are good, but most middles have a long way to go.)

The delusional ludlow booster strikes again!

LOL. This is 4:16 and I have actually never posted about either of these schools before. OP asked specifically about the best elementary to middle options on the Hill. If you are looking for this combo, this is your best bet. SH is definitely the strongest middle (on the Hill, not comparing to others around the city) and as far as I know the only 2 ele that feed onto SH are Watkins and LT, with LT being the stronger elementary.

JO Wilson is also a SH feeder.

And? No UMC families there after about 1st grade. No hope school even for a current toddler. It's takes more than a decade for a struggling DCPS program to feed a good UMC cohort to 4th or 5th grade. We've seen this story play out at other campuses.

And? if PP says "as I know the only 2 ele that feed onto SH are Watkins and LT" it's good to correct that erroneous statement. Not everyone's top metric when searching for a school is "a good UMC cohort." LT has the lowest math MGP of the 3 SH feeds (the only one below the DC average) but the highest for ELA (JOW and Watkins are tied, and both are higher than the DC average). If growth is an important factor for OP to consider, not just how rich or white the student body is, then comparing MGPs does not get you a clear winner. Real estate is hard enough on the Hill, and a large number of schools doing well enough, that OP doesn't need to confine herself to one or two school zones.

LT's aggregate scores in math are lower due purely to the demographics of the school and the related achievement gap. When scores are de-aggregated, LT's white students score higher in both ELA and Math than any other ES on the Hill. Additionally, it's AA students score higher in ELA and Math than any other AA student body on the Hill. It's the aggregation that brings LT's cumulative scores slightly lower.