Moving to DC with a 6th grader

[Anonymous]

Any advice? Are there any good public schools or public charter schools that might have openings in the lottery?

[Anonymous]

Where are you moving to? I would move in bounds for Deal Middle school and call it a day.

[Anonymous]

Deal is excellent. It is an IB MYP program. They are expanding the 6th and 7th grade classes next year -- adding new "Teams" so individual classes will be smaller. They are also adding a 4th language: Arabic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deal is excellent. It is an IB MYP program. They are expanding the 6th and 7th grade classes next year -- adding new "Teams" so individual classes will be smaller. They are also adding a 4th language: Arabic.

What will be the target size for each team and for each class?

[Anonymous]

Deal is it. Unless you lottery into Latin or Basis (is your kid a math/science whiz, and like 2-3 hours of homework). You will need a million to move into a decent house in the Deal IB area.

[Anonymous]

CMI, ITS, cap city. 2Rivers? Those are all into 6th, right. Op, these are charters parents love for their PK and elementary but are less trusted at teh middle school level, often because the middle school is brand new. But if you are moving in time to go lottry, I'd check them out. Deal is an really expensive cachement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CMI, ITS, cap city. 2Rivers? Those are all into 6th, right. Op, these are charters parents love for their PK and elementary but are less trusted at teh middle school level, often because the middle school is brand new. But if you are moving in time to go lottry, I'd check them out. Deal is an really expensive cachement.

There are some areas of in DC that aren't as expensive that are still in boundary for Deal. There are also some areas that are grandfathered into Deal that won't be obvious to someone not in-the-know without significant research.

OP - What's your budget / home size / area you're interested in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is excellent. It is an IB MYP program. They are expanding the 6th and 7th grade classes next year -- adding new "Teams" so individual classes will be smaller. They are also adding a 4th language: Arabic.

What will be the target size for each team and for each class?

I don't know. Principal just said they are adding teams, so the current 4 6th grade teams will become 5 7th grade teams, which means 4 more core class teachers. You can assume that with 535 students (I think), this puts about 107-110 per team, divided among 6 classes per day -- that can make for some classes as small as 17 depending on how they divide it up, but probably a little bigger than that so they don't swamp the foreign language and arts/PE teachers. Just a guess though.

[Anonymous]

Search data about the schools being mentioned on learndc.org

I'd add Hardy Middle School to the ones mentioned above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deal is it. Unless you lottery into Latin or Basis (is your kid a math/science whiz, and like 2-3 hours of homework). You will need a million to move into a decent house in the Deal IB area.

Is your child already in 6th grade or will be in 6th grade next year? If already in 6th grade then BASIS is not an option (the school will not accept any students past 6th grade due to their curriculum requirements in 5th and 6th grade) and Latin is probably not an option since it is in such high demand. Even BASIS is tough to get into for 6th grade, but there is a much better chance to gain a spot there than compared to Latin. BTW, 2-3 hours homework??? That is a bit of an exaggeration at least for 5th and 6th grade. 1 - 2 hours homework is more likely to be the average and really closer to 1 hour as the student improves his/her time management.

[Anonymous]

Deal or outside the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deal or outside the city.

Hardy has great teachers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal is it. Unless you lottery into Latin or Basis (is your kid a math/science whiz, and like 2-3 hours of homework). You will need a million to move into a decent house in the Deal IB area.

Is your child already in 6th grade or will be in 6th grade next year? If already in 6th grade then BASIS is not an option (the school will not accept any students past 6th grade due to their curriculum requirements in 5th and 6th grade) and Latin is probably not an option since it is in such high demand. Even BASIS is tough to get into for 6th grade, but there is a much better chance to gain a spot there than compared to Latin. BTW, 2-3 hours homework??? That is a bit of an exaggeration at least for 5th and 6th grade. 1 - 2 hours homework is more likely to be the average and really closer to 1 hour as the student improves his/her time management.

It's more like 4-5 hours

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal or outside the city.

Hardy has great teachers

agree look at hardy.

[Anonymous]

Hardy and Deal for public. EL Haynes, Two Rivers and Capital City for charters. We are at Capital City for middle and it is going well.