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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had wanted to consider it for my non-white child but when I looked closely at the scores for the school including the SAT scores as well as the general info about the courses offered including quite a bit of remediation courses,  I realized that the students are doing well for students in DCPS and do better than those in other DCPS high schools but compared to suburb schools or other charter schools, they are only doing about average.  [/quote]

Thats true of probably every single DCPS schools  We look at one school that has 30% of the kids meeting expectations and we think thats GOOD because it is better than most DCPS third graders. But its a terrible comparison. [b] Definitely need to compare to the suburban schools[/b][/quote]

Why do you have to compare it to the suburban schools?  OP's question is "what is Banneker like".  not "Is Banneker objectively THE BEST high school in the region?"  Presumably OP is a DC resident scoping out the various DC options.  For a school to be a viable option it does not necessarily have to be "the best" school, and the comparators would be the schools in the same school district.  So it would be great to hear from ACTUAL BANNEKER PARENTS about what their child's experience has been.  I know that there's been at least one Banneker Mom who has posted on here about how her daughter did great there, but she had to pull her son.  [/quote]

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