Why Will or Won’t Euclid MS succeed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:some people without boundary or feeder rights will lottery amongst Euclid, John Francis, and the other nearby (or not so nearby) options. that is probably okay. this board presumes most will prefer John Francis but i think the preference for students closer to Euclid will pretty quickly shift to Euclid. i vote successful in the same general sense that the hill middle schools are (an overall pretty solid option with some positive features, some neighborhood buy-in, increasingly considered good enough at least for some families to not commute far across town for a lottery school option, but not quite a widely praised or super popular choice on this board).

Strongly agree that the bolded needs to be the bar for success here. It’s not going to be Deal or Hardy, that’s unrealistic, but if it ended up similar to SH, I’d be thrilled and almost certainly send my kids. We live four blocks away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:some people without boundary or feeder rights will lottery amongst Euclid, John Francis, and the other nearby (or not so nearby) options. that is probably okay. this board presumes most will prefer John Francis but i think the preference for students closer to Euclid will pretty quickly shift to Euclid. i vote successful in the same general sense that the hill middle schools are (an overall pretty solid option with some positive features, some neighborhood buy-in, increasingly considered good enough at least for some families to not commute far across town for a lottery school option, but not quite a widely praised or super popular choice on this board).

Strongly agree that the bolded needs to be the bar for success here. It’s not going to be Deal or Hardy, that’s unrealistic, but if it ended up similar to SH, I’d be thrilled and almost certainly send my kids. We live four blocks away.

Yeah, this is the big question. Will it be Cardozo, or will it be SH?

Any families IB for the new school with current 3rd graders willing to share their plan?

We actually are in that category but with a younger sibling with rights to a good charter middle. Not planning on Euclid, unless it somehow offers more rigorous academics than the default school.