Banneker vs J-R / MacArthur

[Anonymous]

Not much talk about MacArthur on this thread

[Anonymous]

Not all that much known about MacArthur yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not much talk about MacArthur on this thread

lol it hasn't even been open for a year or had a single graduating class. come on now.

[Anonymous]

Many people that could move to the J-R zone often have better options. We would have certainly considered J-R if we already lived in upper NW, but we don’t see J-R as a pull factor reason to move there. So we continue to live in NE and send our kids to a private middle school and likely HS, though will of course consider SWW and (gasp!) even Banneker.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know the percentage of IB students at Banneker that pass? And what the average score is?

[Anonymous]

Banneker is designed to keep the IB program small. This year, for 9th graders, they capped the number of students they accepted into pre-IB. The average IB class in 11th & 12th (when the full-fledged IB program starts, rather than pre-IB) is about 25 students. My understanding is that they keep it small due to resources and because it is an intense program not designed for everyone, that as a result they all pass; the Principal said something during the summer institute about how the IB Math scores at Banneker were some of the highest in the US. I can't cite this fact b/c I don't know where the data comes from: just telling you what was circulated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banneker is designed to keep the IB program small. This year, for 9th graders, they capped the number of students they accepted into pre-IB. The average IB class in 11th & 12th (when the full-fledged IB program starts, rather than pre-IB) is about 25 students. My understanding is that they keep it small due to resources and because it is an intense program not designed for everyone, that as a result they all pass; the Principal said something during the summer institute about how the IB Math scores at Banneker were some of the highest in the US. I can't cite this fact b/c I don't know where the data comes from: just telling you what was circulated.

They do have a few kids drop out from the IB track. I think two switched to AP this year. It is an intense program that requires an additional class before and after school.