If redistricting changes feeders into Deal, will Bancroft continue its upward trajectory?

[Anonymous]

We're an upper middle class family with a kid at Bancroft. Honestly, I think we, along with most of the families like us in the neighborhood who send their kids there, find the early childhood program the big draw. It's good quality, bilingual, and diverse. When I talk to other families we all have the same question--would we stick it out all the way through
'til 5th grade? Even a friend of ours who taught at the school said she wouldn't send her kid there past 3rd. Deal is a draw, no doubt, but I don't think it's the biggest factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft only began to attract higher SES families when they saw that was a way to feed to Deal. Maybe they can mobilize together to some other school now since they are there. But Deal is the only reason they came.

I would be interested in knowing if this was true. I don't believe it to be honest. Did white and upper class parents come to Bancroft only when they saw it fed to Deal? Can anyone speak to when and why upper class families began to go to Bancroft?

They also are coming because language immersion is the "new normal" in this city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft only began to attract higher SES families when they saw that was a way to feed to Deal. Maybe they can mobilize together to some other school now since they are there. But Deal is the only reason they came.

I would be interested in knowing if this was true. I don't believe it to be honest. Did white and upper class parents come to Bancroft only when they saw it fed to Deal? Can anyone speak to when and why upper class families began to go to Bancroft?

For what it's worth here are some old stats on Bancroft.
http://mtpparents.pbworks.com/w/page/7768354/Statistics

In 2005, it was 87% FARMS; now 77%, so a change but not a huge one. It was 2% white back then, now 10%.

I'm not sure exactly when Bancroft became a Deal feeder. I have the impression Bancroft graduates went to Deal before that, perhaps by lobbying the Deal principal. Or maybe the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood has always been part of the Deal boundary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bancroft only began to attract higher SES families when they saw that was a way to feed to Deal. Maybe they can mobilize together to some other school now since they are there. But Deal is the only reason they came.

I would be interested in knowing if this was true. I don't believe it to be honest. Did white and upper class parents come to Bancroft only when they saw it fed to Deal? Can anyone speak to when and why upper class families began to go to Bancroft?

For what it's worth here are some old stats on Bancroft.
http://mtpparents.pbworks.com/w/page/7768354/Statistics

In 2005, it was 87% FARMS; now 77%, so a change but not a huge one. It was 2% white back then, now 10%.

I'm not sure exactly when Bancroft became a Deal feeder. I have the impression Bancroft graduates went to Deal before that, perhaps by lobbying the Deal principal. Or maybe the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood has always been part of the Deal boundary.


Bancroft has been feeding DEAL when I went there and I'm 49.