Honestly I believe that MacFarland will be the next good DC middle school, leapfrogging the Hill schools. |
Maybe, but anyone in elementary school now will be old enough to teach there by the time it happens. |
It really depends where in Ward 4 someone lives. We are in Ward 4 and CapCity is a 2-minute drive for me (and I would never send my kid there, regardless); ITS is one that we considered, but the 25-minute commute each way just wasn't worth it for us. Any of the WOTP schools would be at least a 20-minute drive each way for us. |
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My MacFarland 8th grader is going to Banneker next year. |
Uh, it's a 10 minute drive from CapCity to Inspired? Unclear how you can be 2 minutes from one but 25 from the other. |
Are you sure you know where CapCity is?! I am, at most, a 2 minute drive from CapCity, probably less (I live three blocks away). It's a 16 minute drive right now from CapCity to ITS during DCPS spring break week (traffic is unusually light) and before rush hour. Prior to the lottery deadline, when I was figuring out what schools are reasonable, I used Googlemaps and Waze at least a dozen times on various days during rush hour to see how long it would take us to get to ITS (and many other schools) and it was routinely ~25 min. |
Well a MacFarland kid just won the spelling bee, so you might be right. |
McKinley definitely won't turn you away, but if you are not interested in STEM, that might be an issue. |
How many of these people exist? |
We are zoned for Wells, but not going to enroll there. We will be enrolling at DCI for middle (and high) school. |
Well if you read the thread, you will see that SH sent about 38 kids to Walls/Banneker/McKinley/Ellington in the 22-23 cycle. That definitely qualifies as a "cohort." It also does not include kids who went to private schools, moved IB for J-R or a suburban school, but were also high achievers. If you look at PARCC scores for that same year, 16% of students at the school scored a 4 or 5 on the PARCC for math, 41% for ELA. The math scores are concerning so I'd look at your individual kid and consider some kind of supplementing (still cheaper than private for MS), but those ELA scores are pretty strong and indicate a high achieving cohort for sure. If I were a Ward 4/5/7/8 family that got locked out of Latin/BASIS and didn't want to move or pay for private, I would absolutely be adding the SH feeders as a backup. L-T is unlikely at this point, but JOW and Watkins are not. It's certainly strong enough to be a backup (and is the backup for many Ward 6 families who might prefer Latin or BASIS but will accept SH as the guaranteed alternative, which is how SH built up that cohort of strong students to begin with -- many simply didn't get lucky in the lottery for charters and the parents decided to give SH a shot rather than move). |
I am sure he will excel at Roosevelt High School, where 93% of the student body is below grade level in English. |
McKinley accepted 20% of those who applied according to the stats. They're turning someone away. |
You are in the bubble of low standards in DC. 4 is NOT high achieving. It is just on grade level. |