Private to Deal.

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Private

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Misfire...sorry. Thinking of switching to Deal next year for 6th. Currently at a private school in DC but want more economic diversity, extracurrics, and different social experience.

What can we expect from above and from academics?

[Anonymous]

Many people do this OP.

Open house at Deal was this morning. Also 12/17 and 1/20 from 9 am to 11 an.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Misfire...sorry. Thinking of switching to Deal next year for 6th. Currently at a private school in DC but want more economic diversity, extracurrics, and different social experience.

What can we expect from above and from academics?

I am doing the same. There is an assessment test this summer to place student in the math track. From people I have spoken with who have done this, there was less homework but not much of a difference overall (from those who had students go through both public and private).

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Anonymous wrote:Misfire...sorry. Thinking of switching to Deal next year for 6th. Currently at a private school in DC but want more economic diversity, extracurrics, and different social experience.

What can we expect from above and from academics?

Is Deal still economically diverse? Maybe more than a typical private but isn't it almost entirely a WOTP school now?

[Anonymous]

PP again. As for economic diversity and extra curricular activities, all reported they were much happier. But without knowing what school you are coming from I don’t know exactly what is offered in terms of clubs.

I will say, as of yet I haven’t met a single person who had a bad thing to say about Deal. Wilson and some elementary schools, yes but not Deal.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Misfire...sorry. Thinking of switching to Deal next year for 6th. Currently at a private school in DC but want more economic diversity, extracurrics, and different social experience.

What can we expect from above and from academics?

Is Deal still economically diverse? Maybe more than a typical private but isn't it almost entirely a WOTP school now?

Deal is still very diverse on many different levels. It’s a wonderful place.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Misfire...sorry. Thinking of switching to Deal next year for 6th. Currently at a private school in DC but want more economic diversity, extracurrics, and different social experience.

What can we expect from above and from academics?

Is Deal still economically diverse? Maybe more than a typical private but isn't it almost entirely a WOTP school now?

Deal is 70% IB, 12% economically disadvantaged and 47% white (see link). The boundary includes students from Bancroft and Shepherd, so it's not all WOTP.

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Deal+Middle+School

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Misfire...sorry. Thinking of switching to Deal next year for 6th. Currently at a private school in DC but want more economic diversity, extracurrics, and different social experience.

What can we expect from above and from academics?

Is Deal still economically diverse? Maybe more than a typical private but isn't it almost entirely a WOTP school now?

Deal is still very diverse on many different levels. It’s a wonderful place.

Is it still economically diverse though? I thought someone posted on here recently that the number of kids getting subsidized lunches is now under 10%?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Misfire...sorry. Thinking of switching to Deal next year for 6th. Currently at a private school in DC but want more economic diversity, extracurrics, and different social experience.

What can we expect from above and from academics?

Is Deal still economically diverse? Maybe more than a typical private but isn't it almost entirely a WOTP school now?

No, I think it offers more diversity for a couple of more years from what I have been told.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Misfire...sorry. Thinking of switching to Deal next year for 6th. Currently at a private school in DC but want more economic diversity, extracurrics, and different social experience.

What can we expect from above and from academics?

Is Deal still economically diverse? Maybe more than a typical private but isn't it almost entirely a WOTP school now?

Deal is 70% IB, 12% economically disadvantaged and 47% white (see link). The boundary includes students from Bancroft and Shepherd, so it's not all WOTP.

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Deal+Middle+School

Our posts crossed - 12% is very low by DC standards. And as I understand it the IB % number is still going up which likely means the economically disadvantaged number is going to continue to go down. But glad it is still ethnically diverse at least.

[Anonymous]

Of course, if you want income diversity and ethnic diversity, you can apply OOB to Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Deal is still diverse.

And while there might not be as much true poverty you have a lot of people living pretty down-to-earth and simple for DC jobs---a zillion feds, journalists, non-profit workers, teachers, pediatricians, nurses and on and on. There are also wealthy families but not the extreme wealth of many of the privates.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course, if you want income diversity and ethnic diversity, you can apply OOB to Hardy.

That's one option.

Or DCPS can set aside the OOB slots for kids from poor performing schools instead as was promised a couple of years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course, if you want income diversity and ethnic diversity, you can apply OOB to Hardy.

That's one option.

Or DCPS can set aside the OOB slots for kids from poor performing schools instead as was promised a couple of years ago.

That wasn'tquite what was promised.

What was promised was setting aside OOB seats for at-risk kids (homeless, receiving TANF or nutrition assistance) and I'm 100% in favor of it. Nothing was said about them having to come from a poor performing school (could be coming from a middle-tier school).