MacArthur is the new Walls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You heard it here first. But with Walls’ new admission “criteria”, families who wanted Walls and didn’t get in, or those who didn’t try for want a small school and don’t care as much about sports, are breaking for MacArthur. The Principal is dynamite and is poaching talent from other HS and MS. In 2 years it will be the top HS in DCPS.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, that is laughable. So laughable, I wonder if it’s Principal McCray? Who is, by the way, very overrated. The school has a long long looooong way to go. You heard it here first.

New poster here - can you please share what makes Principal McCray overrated? We’ll be making the decision on MacArthur next year.

He’s not overrated. I was on the selection committee that chose him. New poster here. My kid is supposed to go to MacArthur in two years and I’m very optimistic. He’s just a terrific leader, brilliant and dynamic. He wanted to be the mayor of Philadelphia and then got into education. Many people and higher ad, including at the college level have degrees from places you’ve never heard of. It’s really expensive to go to graduate school. Some people can’t afford it. And if you know anyone who has a PhD, you know most of the learning comes from doing not sitting in a classroom. So online university doesn’t phase me. But we shall see. I have faith in the promise of a small neighborhood high school in ward 3. I have faith in his leadership ability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Majority of students at McA are out of boundary. So this cannot be true.

Most of the OOB lottery came from JR feeder FYI.

[Anonymous]

If it's the new Walls, why is it making so many lottery offers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it's the new Walls, why is it making so many lottery offers?

It’s pretty obvious that people are not going or taking the spot so the waitlist is moving a lot.

They have a lot of OOB kids.

[Anonymous]

Most of the OOB is coming from JR feeder. Some from Oyster-Adams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the OOB is coming from JR feeder. Some from Oyster-Adams.

I don’t think so since the majority of OOB are black

[Anonymous]

What APs does the school offer?

[Anonymous]

I guess it’s like the public ivy crowd….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it's the new Walls, why is it making so many lottery offers?

Fair question.

[Anonymous]

So the story is that higher income families that can’t get their kids into Walls will send them to the new white-side-of-town high school? That’s OP’s premise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the OOB is coming from JR feeder. Some from Oyster-Adams.

That seems unlikely given that MacArthur will qualify as a Title 1 school next year, indicating that at least 40% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch.

[Anonymous]

We’re one of the families on the waitlist that is inbounds for J-R. Kid would prefer a smaller environment and met and liked the principal at the DCPS school fair last fall.

[Anonymous]

We are in NE but getting closer on the waitlist. How do people from across the city get there? I would definitely need my kid to take public transportation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in NE but getting closer on the waitlist. How do people from across the city get there? I would definitely need my kid to take public transportation.

There's a bus from Gallery Place area that goes right there. Takes a while.