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Anonymous wrote:OP -- Take much of the advice with a grain of salt, but consider this -- if you're interested in gaining a PK3 seat without a sibling preference you'll likely be looking at long odds at Brent or Maury, and in two year possibly even Ludlow Taylor. I'd rank SWS highly but without an older sib you'll be looking at long odd there as well.

Peabody has the most ECE seats and it's an excellent program in a modernized building. It's not a lock for PK3 but it's not a longshot either. Watkins will be modernized by the time you're looking at 1st and there will likely be momentum from the largely inbound population rising from Peabody. Watkins has had some issues to which the mountains of DCUM posts will attest (and take those with a grain of salt too), but in 5 years it will likely look different than today and there is a lot of potential. Watkins' building is larger than Brent or Maury and the size can be a turnoff for some families.

What is the Peabody inbound population like in terms of SES?

Any info regarding the bolded question?

The only actual data on that point would be FARMS. Ironically, here's one situation where that data is actually not code for anything else. But that only tells you the bottom end. There is no way of knowing what the remainder is because that data isn't published or known to schools. That will not stop people on this board from chiming in like they know, mind you. But please keep in mind that people on this forum like to talk about "going private" as if finding another 30-50k a year for 4-9 years is not a big deal. If you think looking at demographic data is useful then you can look at that. But if you understand that race doesn't necessarily equal SES then you're out of luck.

But forget the logic, wait for the DCUM "experts" to weigh in. Just bring your salt lick.

PP here on original response about Peabody. The question is ill-informed and beneath an response. Draw your own conclusions.

Thanks, first PP. I know that race doesn't equal SES, as I myself am a minority in a high tax bracket. Was just trying to get impressions from people who live in-boundary to Peabody as to the general SES of the boundary.

Second PP -- are you the poster DCUM calls "word salad"?

^^ sorry replaced "(an) answer" with "(an) response" - so yes -- you're very clever and I am indeed word salad. And if you have to ask about the cost of living in the Hill Historic District or even Hill East then you're asking a foolish question. 170 of 227 Peabody kids are inbounds, and of the 57 who aren't I'll bet most have siblings at Watkins.

Poseur. The real word salad is much more lyrical. . . and less comprehensible despite the typo.

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Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

To the OP. This is why asking DCUM for advice is dubious at best. They know what the hill looked like 8 years ago. Look at crime reports and housing comps within 6 blocks of the two metros. Property near noma with 1.5 to 2x near noma. People like the previous poster aren't bad or malicious, just ignorant.

Whatever. I and thousands of other people have regularly walkes home from Stadium Armory at night somehow without incident. Shocking I know!

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Not saying it is a warzone or unsafe. But this is a good illustration for the OP of the time warp in which some on your part of the Hill still live. Conventional wisdom WAS that pushing super far east was better than going north of H street - but that about ended when the NoMa metro opened...about 2004. Within two blocks of the NoMa metro stop: Harris Teeter, Starbucks, Petco, CVS, Hilton Garden Hotel, Courtyard Marriott, Douglas Jamal's new REI flagship and retail (that is across the street from the entrance, BTW), Potbelly, TD Bank, 5 Guys Burgers. Oh yeah, and hundreds upon hundreds of luxury apartments (think: 4 buildings each with 8 or 10 stories with 1 BRs in the mid to high 2000's, 2BR in the 3's). Within 4 blocks is Union Market and another block past that is the movie theater. It is young couple and kid-ville over there. If you go south towards H you have the new Giant, the new Whole Foods (coming soon), and about 10 indie restaurants and coffee shops and bakeries.

I'm not arguing that your neighborhood is bad or unsafe, but to argue with a straight face that RFK is safer or has more amenities is living in a time warp. Even if the crime stats didn't bear this out (and they do) the critical mass of shops and people and amenities near NoMa mean there's more foot traffic, which makes anywhere in a city safer. I'm not making the same argument about Eastern Market; there's lots of stuff over there (although I prefer NoMa). But legit arguments can be made. And I wish we had more parks like Garfield or Lincoln. But you are confusing the fact that RFK is IB for Maury with the neighborhoods that are on the line between Maury and Brent. And the property values in the NoMa part of 20002 are telling the same story.

Then there's the fact that LT is killing it, JO is on the rise (maybe a year or two behind LT) and both feed into SH, which (after Deal) could reasonably be the best MS in DC by the time ECE kids attend.

Your neighborhood is lovely. I'm thrilled you like it. But the rest of the Hill didn't stay the same after you bought your house.

Nailed it. And I've lived within 2 blocks of both metros. Noma X1000 more convenient

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You ignore the most salient point of OP's query. She asked about Hill schools. NOMA is not on the Hill and not inbound for any Hill school.

Everything east of the south entrance is IB for JO. But thanks for making my point about the ignorance of some Hill dwellers.

Your own ignorance is pretty evident. JO Wilson isn't on the Hill. It is way above the historic F St northern bounds at of the Hill historic district and north of H by 2 blocks. At best it is H St and Atlas, not the Hill.

I think you are being a bit too literal here. I live on the Hill (within the historic district if that is how you are defining the Hill) and I would include schools like JO Wilson and Miner and Payne as Hill schools. From a parent's perspective, they are looking at what schools their kid could attend and still be part of family life on the Hill (Boogie Babies, Music Together, Sports on the Hill, kid's shows at the Atlas, Tippie Toes at the Hill Center etc.). My mom friends who live IB for these schools send their kids to all these activities. No one is thinking about the boundaries of the historic district. This distinction is only important to the senior citizens who sit on things like the Capitol Hill Restoration Society board. In the real world of modern Hill parenting, your argument is meaningless.

Neighborhoods can only stretch so far. NOMA is definitely not the Hill.

But JO Wilson is a Hill school. Its IB goes to H street. I would agree that the high rises over by the New York metro aren't on the Hill, or even really Hill adjacent, but no one but you is concerned about that point. The OP wanted some info on Hill schools. We are trying to give her some.

The NOMA booster is the one that turned this into a debate about NOMA as a neighborhood. And anyway, is JO Wilson really a Hill neighborhood? What would the longtimers say about that?

I've owned a home in the historic district since 1999. Do I count as a long timer? I consider everything between Florida Avenue NE and the highway SE to be Capitol Hill and from North Capitol to the Anacostia River. I realize that realtors have several different names for the sub neighborhoods (Hill East, Rosedale, NOMA, H Street/Atlas) and those distinctions are interesting for talking about different parts of the Hill, but it's pedantic to nitpick about subdivisions when people crisscross these neighborhoods all day for the purposes of shopping, recreation, commuting, libraries, restaurants, etc.). Any school in those boundaries is a Hill school because the lives of the kids and the families intersect at events and activities. I'm even willing to throw in Van Ness and the whole new Navy Yard area as essentially the same as the Hill. I now do all my grocery shopping at the Navy Yard Harris Teeter since it's the nicest grocery store "on the Hill," at least until the Whole Foods opens on H Street (which will still be "on the Hill"). I am not sure there is any point in arguing with you since you clearly think differently, but I wanted to represent the opinion of someone who has lived on the Hill for more than a few years.

I definitely don't think of Navy Yard as the Hill. It's Navy Yard. I wonder if before the nice Harris Teeter you would have considered it the Hill? Or is it just manifest destiny that any area adjacent to the Hill become "the Hill" once it has amenities you want to patronize?

You are missing the point. Of course the Navy Yard isn't the Hill proper, but if you are looking at where to live and where to send your kids to school (which the OP is) then you are getting essentially the same lifestyle whether you live on M St SE or H St NE. Its "the Hill" for purposes of what kid activities you are going to have access to. I don't care what you call it, the OP wants to know about what its like to have kids in this part of the city. I am not so concerned with labels that I would refrain from giving a person who asked a question full information just because I don't want someone who lives outside a few block area called historic "Capitol Hill" to be able to say they live "on the Hill." I live my life on a day to day basis across all of these neighborhoods (mostly walking across them since they are ridiculously close to one another) and that is the salient point.

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Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

To the OP. This is why asking DCUM for advice is dubious at best. They know what the hill looked like 8 years ago. Look at crime reports and housing comps within 6 blocks of the two metros. Property near noma with 1.5 to 2x near noma. People like the previous poster aren't bad or malicious, just ignorant.

Whatever. I and thousands of other people have regularly walkes home from Stadium Armory at night somehow without incident. Shocking I know!

I think

Not saying it is a warzone or unsafe. But this is a good illustration for the OP of the time warp in which some on your part of the Hill still live. Conventional wisdom WAS that pushing super far east was better than going north of H street - but that about ended when the NoMa metro opened...about 2004. Within two blocks of the NoMa metro stop: Harris Teeter, Starbucks, Petco, CVS, Hilton Garden Hotel, Courtyard Marriott, Douglas Jamal's new REI flagship and retail (that is across the street from the entrance, BTW), Potbelly, TD Bank, 5 Guys Burgers. Oh yeah, and hundreds upon hundreds of luxury apartments (think: 4 buildings each with 8 or 10 stories with 1 BRs in the mid to high 2000's, 2BR in the 3's). Within 4 blocks is Union Market and another block past that is the movie theater. It is young couple and kid-ville over there. If you go south towards H you have the new Giant, the new Whole Foods (coming soon), and about 10 indie restaurants and coffee shops and bakeries.

I'm not arguing that your neighborhood is bad or unsafe, but to argue with a straight face that RFK is safer or has more amenities is living in a time warp. Even if the crime stats didn't bear this out (and they do) the critical mass of shops and people and amenities near NoMa mean there's more foot traffic, which makes anywhere in a city safer. I'm not making the same argument about Eastern Market; there's lots of stuff over there (although I prefer NoMa). But legit arguments can be made. And I wish we had more parks like Garfield or Lincoln. But you are confusing the fact that RFK is IB for Maury with the neighborhoods that are on the line between Maury and Brent. And the property values in the NoMa part of 20002 are telling the same story.

Then there's the fact that LT is killing it, JO is on the rise (maybe a year or two behind LT) and both feed into SH, which (after Deal) could reasonably be the best MS in DC by the time ECE kids attend.

Your neighborhood is lovely. I'm thrilled you like it. But the rest of the Hill didn't stay the same after you bought your house.

Nailed it. And I've lived within 2 blocks of both metros. Noma X1000 more convenient

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You ignore the most salient point of OP's query. She asked about Hill schools. NOMA is not on the Hill and not inbound for any Hill school.

Everything east of the south entrance is IB for JO. But thanks for making my point about the ignorance of some Hill dwellers.

Your own ignorance is pretty evident. JO Wilson isn't on the Hill. It is way above the historic F St northern bounds at of the Hill historic district and north of H by 2 blocks. At best it is H St and Atlas, not the Hill.

I think you are being a bit too literal here. I live on the Hill (within the historic district if that is how you are defining the Hill) and I would include schools like JO Wilson and Miner and Payne as Hill schools. From a parent's perspective, they are looking at what schools their kid could attend and still be part of family life on the Hill (Boogie Babies, Music Together, Sports on the Hill, kid's shows at the Atlas, Tippie Toes at the Hill Center etc.). My mom friends who live IB for these schools send their kids to all these activities. No one is thinking about the boundaries of the historic district. This distinction is only important to the senior citizens who sit on things like the Capitol Hill Restoration Society board. In the real world of modern Hill parenting, your argument is meaningless.

Neighborhoods can only stretch so far. NOMA is definitely not the Hill.

But JO Wilson is a Hill school. Its IB goes to H street. I would agree that the high rises over by the New York metro aren't on the Hill, or even really Hill adjacent, but no one but you is concerned about that point. The OP wanted some info on Hill schools. We are trying to give her some.

The NOMA booster is the one that turned this into a debate about NOMA as a neighborhood. And anyway, is JO Wilson really a Hill neighborhood? What would the longtimers say about that?

I've owned a home in the historic district since 1999. Do I count as a long timer? I consider everything between Florida Avenue NE and the highway SE to be Capitol Hill and from North Capitol to the Anacostia River. I realize that realtors have several different names for the sub neighborhoods (Hill East, Rosedale, NOMA, H Street/Atlas) and those distinctions are interesting for talking about different parts of the Hill, but it's pedantic to nitpick about subdivisions when people crisscross these neighborhoods all day for the purposes of shopping, recreation, commuting, libraries, restaurants, etc.). Any school in those boundaries is a Hill school because the lives of the kids and the families intersect at events and activities. I'm even willing to throw in Van Ness and the whole new Navy Yard area as essentially the same as the Hill. I now do all my grocery shopping at the Navy Yard Harris Teeter since it's the nicest grocery store "on the Hill," at least until the Whole Foods opens on H Street (which will still be "on the Hill"). I am not sure there is any point in arguing with you since you clearly think differently, but I wanted to represent the opinion of someone who has lived on the Hill for more than a few years.

I definitely don't think of Navy Yard as the Hill. It's Navy Yard. I wonder if before the nice Harris Teeter you would have considered it the Hill? Or is it just manifest destiny that any area adjacent to the Hill become "the Hill" once it has amenities you want to patronize?

You are missing the point. Of course the Navy Yard isn't the Hill proper, but if you are looking at where to live and where to send your kids to school (which the OP is) then you are getting essentially the same lifestyle whether you live on M St SE or H St NE. Its "the Hill" for purposes of what kid activities you are going to have access to. I don't care what you call it, the OP wants to know about what its like to have kids in this part of the city. I am not so concerned with labels that I would refrain from giving a person who asked a question full information just because I don't want someone who lives outside a few block area called historic "Capitol Hill" to be able to say they live "on the Hill." I live my life on a day to day basis across all of these neighborhoods (mostly walking across them since they are ridiculously close to one another) and that is the salient point.

different PP -- I totally agree with you on the generic quality of living on "The Hill" but when it comes to schools it's almost tribal. As much as some people bemoan out of bound kids in their neighborhood schools, many of these OOB kids just live in a different nearby assigned school zone and for all practical purposes are neighbors.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many IB kids at Peabody and Ludlow-Taylor left to go to Mundo Verde this year, considering the huge MV expansion.

+1. I'm guessing a lot.

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If it is covered by the Hill Rag, it is the Hill

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Check Moths if you are a Hill parent with a Mundo Verde kid, to connect with other such parents.

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Anonymous wrote:OP -- Take much of the advice with a grain of salt, but consider this -- if you're interested in gaining a PK3 seat without a sibling preference you'll likely be looking at long odds at Brent or Maury, and in two year possibly even Ludlow Taylor. I'd rank SWS highly but without an older sib you'll be looking at long odd there as well.

Peabody has the most ECE seats and it's an excellent program in a modernized building. It's not a lock for PK3 but it's not a longshot either. Watkins will be modernized by the time you're looking at 1st and there will likely be momentum from the largely inbound population rising from Peabody. Watkins has had some issues to which the mountains of DCUM posts will attest (and take those with a grain of salt too), but in 5 years it will likely look different than today and there is a lot of potential. Watkins' building is larger than Brent or Maury and the size can be a turnoff for some families.

What is the Peabody inbound population like in terms of SES?

Any info regarding the bolded question?

The only actual data on that point would be FARMS. Ironically, here's one situation where that data is actually not code for anything else. But that only tells you the bottom end. There is no way of knowing what the remainder is because that data isn't published or known to schools. That will not stop people on this board from chiming in like they know, mind you. But please keep in mind that people on this forum like to talk about "going private" as if finding another 30-50k a year for 4-9 years is not a big deal. If you think looking at demographic data is useful then you can look at that. But if you understand that race doesn't necessarily equal SES then you're out of luck.

But forget the logic, wait for the DCUM "experts" to weigh in. Just bring your salt lick.

PP here on original response about Peabody. The question is ill-informed and beneath an response. Draw your own conclusions.

Thanks, first PP. I know that race doesn't equal SES, as I myself am a minority in a high tax bracket. Was just trying to get impressions from people who live in-boundary to Peabody as to the general SES of the boundary.

Second PP -- are you the poster DCUM calls "word salad"?

I'll bite. Everyone I know going to Peabody this year is solidly middle class/upper middle class. Lots of kids of lawyers, etc. Could just be my circles but I do know a fair number of people that fit this description. My impression is that these are also the people who are going to be more likely to jump ship after K. But who knows how people will feel after 3 years.

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I'm neighbors with 2 rising first graders from Peabody, and both families have told me that almost the entire class is going to Watkins. A few more classes like that and Watkins will be a different place.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many IB kids at Peabody and Ludlow-Taylor left to go to Mundo Verde this year, considering the huge MV expansion.

+1. I'm guessing a lot.

I wonder how many are going to leave Brent or Maury for MV? MV has a middle school and a feeder HS. Brent and Maury feed into nothingness as early as 6th.

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Sounds like all of Capitol Hill wants to go to MV.

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The whole city wants to go to MV.

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Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

To the OP. This is why asking DCUM for advice is dubious at best. They know what the hill looked like 8 years ago. Look at crime reports and housing comps within 6 blocks of the two metros. Property near noma with 1.5 to 2x near noma. People like the previous poster aren't bad or malicious, just ignorant.

Whatever. I and thousands of other people have regularly walkes home from Stadium Armory at night somehow without incident. Shocking I know!

I think

Not saying it is a warzone or unsafe. But this is a good illustration for the OP of the time warp in which some on your part of the Hill still live. Conventional wisdom WAS that pushing super far east was better than going north of H street - but that about ended when the NoMa metro opened...about 2004. Within two blocks of the NoMa metro stop: Harris Teeter, Starbucks, Petco, CVS, Hilton Garden Hotel, Courtyard Marriott, Douglas Jamal's new REI flagship and retail (that is across the street from the entrance, BTW), Potbelly, TD Bank, 5 Guys Burgers. Oh yeah, and hundreds upon hundreds of luxury apartments (think: 4 buildings each with 8 or 10 stories with 1 BRs in the mid to high 2000's, 2BR in the 3's). Within 4 blocks is Union Market and another block past that is the movie theater. It is young couple and kid-ville over there. If you go south towards H you have the new Giant, the new Whole Foods (coming soon), and about 10 indie restaurants and coffee shops and bakeries.

I'm not arguing that your neighborhood is bad or unsafe, but to argue with a straight face that RFK is safer or has more amenities is living in a time warp. Even if the crime stats didn't bear this out (and they do) the critical mass of shops and people and amenities near NoMa mean there's more foot traffic, which makes anywhere in a city safer. I'm not making the same argument about Eastern Market; there's lots of stuff over there (although I prefer NoMa). But legit arguments can be made. And I wish we had more parks like Garfield or Lincoln. But you are confusing the fact that RFK is IB for Maury with the neighborhoods that are on the line between Maury and Brent. And the property values in the NoMa part of 20002 are telling the same story.

Then there's the fact that LT is killing it, JO is on the rise (maybe a year or two behind LT) and both feed into SH, which (after Deal) could reasonably be the best MS in DC by the time ECE kids attend.

Your neighborhood is lovely. I'm thrilled you like it. But the rest of the Hill didn't stay the same after you bought your house.

Nailed it. And I've lived within 2 blocks of both metros. Noma X1000 more convenient

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You ignore the most salient point of OP's query. She asked about Hill schools. NOMA is not on the Hill and not inbound for any Hill school.

Everything east of the south entrance is IB for JO. But thanks for making my point about the ignorance of some Hill dwellers.

Your own ignorance is pretty evident. JO Wilson isn't on the Hill. It is way above the historic F St northern bounds at of the Hill historic district and north of H by 2 blocks. At best it is H St and Atlas, not the Hill.

I think you are being a bit too literal here. I live on the Hill (within the historic district if that is how you are defining the Hill) and I would include schools like JO Wilson and Miner and Payne as Hill schools. From a parent's perspective, they are looking at what schools their kid could attend and still be part of family life on the Hill (Boogie Babies, Music Together, Sports on the Hill, kid's shows at the Atlas, Tippie Toes at the Hill Center etc.). My mom friends who live IB for these schools send their kids to all these activities. No one is thinking about the boundaries of the historic district. This distinction is only important to the senior citizens who sit on things like the Capitol Hill Restoration Society board. In the real world of modern Hill parenting, your argument is meaningless.

Neighborhoods can only stretch so far. NOMA is definitely not the Hill.

But JO Wilson is a Hill school. Its IB goes to H street. I would agree that the high rises over by the New York metro aren't on the Hill, or even really Hill adjacent, but no one but you is concerned about that point. The OP wanted some info on Hill schools. We are trying to give her some.

The NOMA booster is the one that turned this into a debate about NOMA as a neighborhood. And anyway, is JO Wilson really a Hill neighborhood? What would the longtimers say about that?

I've owned a home in the historic district since 1999. Do I count as a long timer? I consider everything between Florida Avenue NE and the highway SE to be Capitol Hill and from North Capitol to the Anacostia River. I realize that realtors have several different names for the sub neighborhoods (Hill East, Rosedale, NOMA, H Street/Atlas) and those distinctions are interesting for talking about different parts of the Hill, but it's pedantic to nitpick about subdivisions when people crisscross these neighborhoods all day for the purposes of shopping, recreation, commuting, libraries, restaurants, etc.). Any school in those boundaries is a Hill school because the lives of the kids and the families intersect at events and activities. I'm even willing to throw in Van Ness and the whole new Navy Yard area as essentially the same as the Hill. I now do all my grocery shopping at the Navy Yard Harris Teeter since it's the nicest grocery store "on the Hill," at least until the Whole Foods opens on H Street (which will still be "on the Hill"). I am not sure there is any point in arguing with you since you clearly think differently, but I wanted to represent the opinion of someone who has lived on the Hill for more than a few years.

I definitely don't think of Navy Yard as the Hill. It's Navy Yard. I wonder if before the nice Harris Teeter you would have considered it the Hill? Or is it just manifest destiny that any area adjacent to the Hill become "the Hill" once it has amenities you want to patronize?

You are missing the point. Of course the Navy Yard isn't the Hill proper, but if you are looking at where to live and where to send your kids to school (which the OP is) then you are getting essentially the same lifestyle whether you live on M St SE or H St NE. Its "the Hill" for purposes of what kid activities you are going to have access to. I don't care what you call it, the OP wants to know about what its like to have kids in this part of the city. I am not so concerned with labels that I would refrain from giving a person who asked a question full information just because I don't want someone who lives outside a few block area called historic "Capitol Hill" to be able to say they live "on the Hill." I live my life on a day to day basis across all of these neighborhoods (mostly walking across them since they are ridiculously close to one another) and that is the salient point.

I see. The Hill is a state of mind, not a neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm neighbors with 2 rising first graders from Peabody, and both families have told me that almost the entire class is going to Watkins. A few more classes like that and Watkins will be a different place.

I'm the parent of a rising First Grader from Peabody who will be going to Watkins. I currently only know of two kids (from a total of four classes) in the entire school NOT going to Watkins. I'm sure there are more than a handful, but, honestly, I just don't know of more than two, and I've been asking....(and I presently haven't heard of anybody going to MV, though maybe my kid's in another circle.)

As for SES status, if it's any indicator, I've been to A LOT of birthdays that cost over $500. And The school's starting to look like a mini-Boden catalog.

There's also a visible demographic shift between my K child's class and my Pk3 child's. (The PK3 class is diverse, but my impression--based on no hard-data, but impressions from fellow parents--is that it's more uniformlyl higher SES.)

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Anonymous wrote:I'm neighbors with 2 rising first graders from Peabody, and both families have told me that almost the entire class is going to Watkins. A few more classes like that and Watkins will be a different place.

I'm the parent of a rising First Grader from Peabody who will be going to Watkins. I currently only know of two kids (from a total of four classes) in the entire school NOT going to Watkins. I'm sure there are more than a handful, but, honestly, I just don't know of more than two, and I've been asking....(and I presently haven't heard of anybody going to MV, though maybe my kid's in another circle.)

As for SES status, if it's any indicator, I've been to A LOT of birthdays that cost over $500. And The school's starting to look like a mini-Boden catalog.

There's also a visible demographic shift between my K child's class and my Pk3 child's. (The PK3 class is diverse, but my impression--based on no hard-data, but impressions from fellow parents--is that it's more uniformlyl higher SES.)

So you kids go to school in a benneton commercial? Or boden catalog?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm neighbors with 2 rising first graders from Peabody, and both families have told me that almost the entire class is going to Watkins. A few more classes like that and Watkins will be a different place.

I'm the parent of a rising First Grader from Peabody who will be going to Watkins. I currently only know of two kids (from a total of four classes) in the entire school NOT going to Watkins. I'm sure there are more than a handful, but, honestly, I just don't know of more than two, and I've been asking....(and I presently haven't heard of anybody going to MV, though maybe my kid's in another circle.)

As for SES status, if it's any indicator, I've been to A LOT of birthdays that cost over $500. And The school's starting to look like a mini-Boden catalog.

There's also a visible demographic shift between my K child's class and my Pk3 child's. (The PK3 class is diverse, but my impression--based on no hard-data, but impressions from fellow parents--is that it's more uniformlyl higher SES.)

This simply cannot be. I read DCUM and the people who have lived on the Hill for years tell me that the cluster school forever ruined Watkins (and probably Michelle Rhee too, although I'm not clear on that entirely).

But seriously, that makes sense intellectually. More kids on the Hill and more critical mass. If that's true and it holds then SH could be a great MS option in the next few years if LT and JO continue to get traction.