Bancroft Loses Title I Status?

[Anonymous]

Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

Bilingual DCPS schools already have separate lotteries for English and Spanish dominant seats through first grade. Mount Pleasant has a ton of Spanish dominant families along 16th St already. Very few Spanish dominant seats go to no preference, including OOB, now. There would be no change to recruiting because there aren’t available seats left to fill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

They could also give up their feeder to overcrowded Deal.

[Anonymous]

Bancroft should have tried harder to keep their status. I’m going to email all of their community partners and aftercare providers to make sure that each organization is aware of the change. Bancroft no longer deserves to have access to programs meant for low income students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

They could also give up their feeder to overcrowded Deal.

I was at a Bancroft open house and an admin warned me that this is a very real possibility with the upcoming boundary review. It’s no longer economically diverse “enough”, it’s physically surrounded by non-feeder school boundaries, and there’s legitimate programmatic reasons to feed a bilingual elementary into the DCPS bilingual middle school (MacFarland). Like Powell before it, there would be a long grandfathering period, but I’d be very hesitant to buy in-bounds with a baby/toddler at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

They could also give up their feeder to overcrowded Deal.

I was at a Bancroft open house and an admin warned me that this is a very real possibility with the upcoming boundary review. It’s no longer economically diverse “enough”, it’s physically surrounded by non-feeder school boundaries, and there’s legitimate programmatic reasons to feed a bilingual elementary into the DCPS bilingual middle school (MacFarland). Like Powell before it, there would be a long grandfathering period, but I’d be very hesitant to buy in-bounds with a baby/toddler at this point.

When is the boundary review expected to be finished?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

They could also give up their feeder to overcrowded Deal.

I was at a Bancroft open house and an admin warned me that this is a very real possibility with the upcoming boundary review. It’s no longer economically diverse “enough”, it’s physically surrounded by non-feeder school boundaries, and there’s legitimate programmatic reasons to feed a bilingual elementary into the DCPS bilingual middle school (MacFarland). Like Powell before it, there would be a long grandfathering period, but I’d be very hesitant to buy in-bounds with a baby/toddler at this point.

When is the boundary review expected to be finished?

It's supposed to occur in 2023, so it probably wouldn't be finished until a year from now, and then there would likely be grandfathering for some time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

They could also give up their feeder to overcrowded Deal.

I was at a Bancroft open house and an admin warned me that this is a very real possibility with the upcoming boundary review. It’s no longer economically diverse “enough”, it’s physically surrounded by non-feeder school boundaries, and there’s legitimate programmatic reasons to feed a bilingual elementary into the DCPS bilingual middle school (MacFarland). Like Powell before it, there would be a long grandfathering period, but I’d be very hesitant to buy in-bounds with a baby/toddler at this point.

Also look at the data on the where kids in the neighborhoods actually go to school. It looks like a significant number of the Latino kids actually wind up choosing CHEC and MacFarland over Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

It also needs more diversity in general. Bancroft is 4.0 % African American. That is shocking for a Ward 1 school. I believe the only school with a lower percentage in the city is Oyster and just barely at 3.5%. For perspective, Eaton is 19.4%, Murch is 13.1% and Mann is 7.9%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 2 kids who go to a non-title 1 school pay for school lunch. My child who goes to a title 1 school does not (everyone gets free lunch).

Free lunch for all is only for community eligibility schools — a subset of title I schools that are highest poverty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

They could also give up their feeder to overcrowded Deal.

I was at a Bancroft open house and an admin warned me that this is a very real possibility with the upcoming boundary review. It’s no longer economically diverse “enough”, it’s physically surrounded by non-feeder school boundaries, and there’s legitimate programmatic reasons to feed a bilingual elementary into the DCPS bilingual middle school (MacFarland). Like Powell before it, there would be a long grandfathering period, but I’d be very hesitant to buy in-bounds with a baby/toddler at this point.

That’s a way to make it title I again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

It also needs more diversity in general. Bancroft is 4.0 % African American. That is shocking for a Ward 1 school. I believe the only school with a lower percentage in the city is Oyster and just barely at 3.5%. For perspective, Eaton is 19.4%, Murch is 13.1% and Mann is 7.9%.

Wow. Those are eye opening numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

It also needs more diversity in general. Bancroft is 4.0 % African American. That is shocking for a Ward 1 school. I believe the only school with a lower percentage in the city is Oyster and just barely at 3.5%. For perspective, Eaton is 19.4%, Murch is 13.1% and Mann is 7.9%.

Wow. Those are eye opening numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft could probably easily regain their Title I status if they improve their recruitment efforts. There are tons of income eligible families in Columbia Heights and Brightwood who could enroll at the school. Bancroft should definitely think about implementing a language fluency test and request equitable access seats.

It also needs more diversity in general. Bancroft is 4.0 % African American. That is shocking for a Ward 1 school. I believe the only school with a lower percentage in the city is Oyster and just barely at 3.5%. For perspective, Eaton is 19.4%, Murch is 13.1% and Mann is 7.9%.

Wow. Those are eye opening numbers.

It’s the neighborhood and the dual immersion; lots of interest from OOB Latino families, maybe not so much African American