DCPS Spanish bilingual up-and-coming schools

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Anonymous wrote:Look at Powell carefully first? What’s wrong with Powell other than the upper grades? That immediate neighborhood is gentrifying rapidly and Powell will only get better.

The Hill has been gentrifying a lot longer than Petworth and families still bail out of Brent in the upper grades. Powell's test scores are lower than Brent's (by a lot) and the feeder pattern is just as much of a problem.

Powell and Brent aren't reasonable analogies. MacFarland is largely a continuation of what Powell is like, and I say that as a positive. The amount of student and leadership staff overlap is hard to understate. And I expect that to continue. And further, Brent families are kajillion-dollar-house Hill families with sterling jobs and Ivy expectations for their kids (kidding, not really). Petworth yuppies mostly just didn't want to live in the suburbs, they aren't trying to get their kids calculus in 5th grade and math or lacrosse scholarships to Princeton.

So it’s a good place for people with low expectations?

[Anonymous]

Hello,
I'm a parent of a rising K and rising PK-3 at Bruce Monroe and I highly recommend it. Petworth and Park View are great places to live as well.

We have many friends at Powell, who are very happy with it. Also a great school. It has a strong and vocal group of parent supporters, so gets more buzz than Bruce Monroe. However, I personally don't think it offers anything that Bruce Monroe does not and wouldn't move my kids if we had the opportunity. I also prefer Bruce Monroe's dual language structure -- one full day in English, then one full day in Spanish -- rather than AM in one language and PM in another.

We got offered a spot at Mundo Verde, but after looking into it further we will pass it up and stay at Bruce Monroe.

Good luck with your decisions!