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[quote=Anonymous]Come on, spare us the drama. Plenty of high SES Hill families who can't afford privates find ways to stay on the Hill through middle and high school, managing to avoid just-OK SH and low-performing Elilot-Hine and Jefferson middle schools.  Maybe half the families do bail, but it's no longer a mass exodus, like it was when I landed in the neighborhood 15 years ago.  High SES families do not use Eastern, regardless of race.

Some Hill families use Hardy OOB, preferring it to Hobson. BASIS is jammed with Hill families, with more and more staying on for their HS program, and many others moving on to Walls, Banneker and Duke Ellington after 8th grade. Latin is also jammed with Hill families from 5th -12th grades.  Loads of Hill families have enrolled in DCI language immersion feeders. Some parents use fairly affordable private middle schools, like St. Peter's and the Friends Community School (both under 20K) to get through the middle school years, then the kids return to public schools for high school, using application programs like Walls.  [/quote]

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