Eaton vs. Stoddert vs. H. Mann vs. Hearst Elementary Schools
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Anonymous
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Why oh why does this turn into school bashing? For Pete's sake.
Any of those schools are great choices, and your family will be happy. I'd just echo others - visit the schools and think about your kid and see which is the best fit. PreK 4 is a tough year at some of them, so have a back up plan in place. This is a triangulation game - school that's a good fit, home that's a good fit, etc. What is going to work "best" (all around) for your family? |
Anonymous
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All are good schools. By good I mean "an excellent environment for your child."
I will provide a (emphasis on "a," not "the") DCPS perspective: the Department of Education has been awarding Blue Ribbon recognition to top public and private schools since 1982. It's their highest award, given to about 300 schools each year. Janney, Murch and Key have all won once. Mann is one of 12 or so schools in the country to have won FOUR times. Mann is DCPS's crown jewel, even if the People's Champion is often located at another address. |
Anonymous
The other DCPS perspective would be to value diversity as a higher-level goal. |
Anonymous
| Stoddert is a great school and we are very happy there. However, as mentioned previously, your chances of getting a spot in PreK, even as an inboundary family are next to zero due to all the siblings of current students seeking a PreK spot in the one class they offer. Plus, before and aftercare have waitlists...at the start of the school year I think there were 60+ kids on the aftercare waitlist and at this point it might be down to around 30. Families already in the aftercare program get preference, so again it's going to likely be mostly full before any new families get a spot. For these practical reasons, you should probably focus on another school. |
Anonymous
Um.....a blue ribbon doesn't expire and schools ask to be nominated. It really isn't that impressive of an award if you look at Blue Ribbon schools in DC-- many you wouldn't send your child to. |
Anonymous
Hilarious. Because Mann keeps filling out the application for Blue Ribbon and no one else bothers, Mann is the "best"? Stop the nonsense people. These are all good schools. |
Anonymous
| If you think that's how it works, then you are a fool. But, hey, whatever it takes to keep yourself cheery. |
Anonymous
You mean the way DCPS for years failed to fill out applications for Federal grants and lost them?! Competence gets rewarded, incompetence doesn't. |
Anonymous
It is my understanding that from the program's inception through 2003, schools nominated themselves. Between 2004-present Mann got it once (2011). Just like the others. But perhaps I am foolishly mistaken. |
Anonymous
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Blue Ribbon schools from 1982-2015.
see page 41 - DC schools -- Mann 89, 93, 03 and 11. Other noteworthy winners: McKinley, Bunker Hill, Noyes... http://www2.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-2003.pdf |
Anonymous
What about Hearst and Eaton? |
Anonymous
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Stop with your Ribbons already!
I was so glad to see Stoddert not mentioned as much as the JKLMM and I was hoping it will stay that way. We are now IB for Mann and people bringing that school up all the time is just overkill. It seems like a nice small school, now shut up. How come the Key people have been able to keep it fairly quiet unlike Janney people. They are all good schools and there are many more OP didn't ask about. |
Anonymous
Key is a very good school and the neighborhood is lovely. My guess as to why Janney gets more buzz is that, while also a great school, it leads on to top-ranked Deal middle school, versus Key (and Mann, Stoddert and Eaton) which all go to lesser-ranked Hardy. Hardy has never gotten much traction with its in-boundary area although it is getting a bit better. |
Anonymous
Or Janney or Murch? |
Anonymous
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Click - page 41...
Alice Deal Junior High School Washington 83-84 Ben W. Murch Elementary School Washington 2007 Benjamin Banneker Academic High School Washington 90-91 Benjamin Banneker Senior High School Washington 2007 Bernard T. Janney Elementary School Washington 2004 Blessed Sacrament School Washington 2012 Brookland Junior High School Washington 82-83 Browne Junior High School Washington 84-85, 88-89 Bunker Hill Elementary School Washington 85-86, 91-92 Burrville Elementary School Washington 2003 Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus Washington 2009 D.C. Preparatory Academy, Edgewood Elementary School Campus Washington 2013 Duke Ellington School of the Arts Washington 92-93 Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School Washington 86-87 Horace Mann Elementary School Washington 2003, 11 Horace Mann Elementary School Washington 89-90, 93-94 Jefferson Junior High School Washington 82-83, 86-87 Joseph Rodman - West Elementary School Washington 2003 Julius W. Hobson Senior Middle School Washington 83-84 Key Elementary School Washington 2008 KIPP DC: KEY Academy Washington 2007 Lafayette Elementary School Washington 2004 Langdon Elementary School Washington 2004 Lemon G. Hine Junior High School Washington 90-91 McKinley Technology High School Washington 2012 Our Lady of Victory School Washington 2007 Oyster Bilingual Elementary School Washington 2006 Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School Washington 92-93 Robert Brent Elementary School Washington 87-88 St. Peter's School Washington 2013 School Without Walls Senior High School Washington 2010 Sidwell Friends Lower School Washington 85-86 Smothers Elementary School Washington 85-86 The Lab School of Washington Washington 94-97 |