5th grade -Capitol Hill

[Anonymous]

Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

Huh?

There is a pretty large cohort of Brent students headed to Jefferson this fall. Students from the Hill attend Stuart Hobson.

Before Latin and BASIS Hill students went OOB to Deal, Hardy and private school.

[Anonymous]

DCPS doesn't need a 'middle school plan.'

It offers good middle school academics and programming at all of its schools. Parents need to get over their fear and enroll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

1) We do need a middle school plan but I'd happily send my child to Stuart-Hobson. The other middle schools need a lot more TLC than they're getting.

2) Consider that Latin and BASIS are providing high school as well and that may be the real issue.

3) I don't know when they'll tackle it. Do you have a plan for some activism that you would like to share?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS doesn't need a 'middle school plan.'

It offers good middle school academics and programming at all of its schools. Parents need to get over their fear and enroll.

The test scores tell a very different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS doesn't need a 'middle school plan.'

It offers good middle school academics and programming at all of its schools. Parents need to get over their fear and enroll.

The test scores tell a very different story.

The schools can’t make a dent against generational poverty and trauma. Test scores track the demographics; kids from economically stable homes are doing well. Most others are not.

We need an anti-poverty plan, not a middle school plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS doesn't need a 'middle school plan.'

It offers good middle school academics and programming at all of its schools. Parents need to get over their fear and enroll.

The test scores tell a very different story.

The schools can’t make a dent against generational poverty and trauma. Test scores track the demographics; kids from economically stable homes are doing well. Most others are not.

We need an anti-poverty plan, not a middle school plan.

“Come to our good Hill middle schools! Where we can’t make a dent in generational poverty and trauma!”

[Anonymous]

If you took Sidwell Friends and plunked it inbthe middle of the Hill, and enrolled all the current students at Jefferson an SH, the results would be about what they are now.

It isn’t the schools it is the students. If the IB parents hose to enroll in their assigned middle schools they would change rapidly and dramatically. But they have never been willing to do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

1) We do need a middle school plan but I'd happily send my child to Stuart-Hobson. The other middle schools need a lot more TLC than they're getting.

2) Consider that Latin and BASIS are providing high school as well and that may be the real issue.

3) I don't know when they'll tackle it. Do you have a plan for some activism that you would like to share?

It's interesting to see the parents for whom 10% white seems to be a threshold and they feel good about SH but not Jefferson. The schools have pretty equal math scores, with JA outperforming SH with several subgroups, including 6th graders. At SH, only about a third of the NON economically disadvantaged kids are on grade level in math. SH has a median growth percentile below the district average for math too. Clearly both schools have room to improve but it's not clear to me that one is substantially better than the other. Teachers are more likely to leave SH than JA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

1) We do need a middle school plan but I'd happily send my child to Stuart-Hobson. The other middle schools need a lot more TLC than they're getting.

2) Consider that Latin and BASIS are providing high school as well and that may be the real issue.

3) I don't know when they'll tackle it. Do you have a plan for some activism that you would like to share?

It's interesting to see the parents for whom 10% white seems to be a threshold and they feel good about SH but not Jefferson. The schools have pretty equal math scores, with JA outperforming SH with several subgroups, including 6th graders. At SH, only about a third of the NON economically disadvantaged kids are on grade level in math. SH has a median growth percentile below the district average for math too. Clearly both schools have room to improve but it's not clear to me that one is substantially better than the other. Teachers are more likely to leave SH than JA.

PP her, did not mean to knock Jefferson. But it's not convenient for us so I've never really looked at it. I wish you success!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

What is plan Middle School plan for children who live East of the River?

[Anonymous]

Why do folks on the Hill think they are the only ones who ?

Most of Ward 4, all of Ward 5, 7 and 8 have weaker middle and high school options than SH and Jefferson.

Quit whining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

What is plan Middle School plan for children who live East of the River?

This thread is about Capitol Hill. Start your own thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

What is plan Middle School plan for children who live East of the River?

This thread is about Capitol Hill. Start your own thread.

The Capitol Hill middle school situation has been discussed here to death. See this thread from January -- or the 100 others. http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/698733.page#12289147

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?

What is plan Middle School plan for children who live East of the River?

No one cares about us.