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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, my list would probably go:

Shepherd
Lafayette
Whittier
Lewis
Takoma

The first two get you into a good feeder pattern so would be worth ranking first IMO. Lafayette is huge and has an incredibly non-diverse student population (at least on paper) so gives me pause, but still probably worth it for the feeder pattern. Whittier is an incredible school; the one thing there is they're up for modernization so will be doing the trailer thing for a bit. I have a feeling that after the modernization, more neighborhood kids are going to buy in to Whittier and they won't have as many available seats, so now may be a good time to get in out-of-bounds if you're interested.

Whittier and Takoma both feed to Wells which seems like a very decent middle school option, but Coolidge continues to feel like a no-go. Things might change though as Wells gains traction! We've had friends at Lewis who loved it -- again, the long-term feeder pattern is an issue there. We had friends who lotteried out of Takoma after PK3 and had a bad experience overall, but that is a single anecdote.[/quote]

At some point DCPS is going to have to deal with the fact that Coolidge was modernized with a third of its current population and if Whittier keeps on pace and there's community buy in Wells and Coolidge cannot basically share a building.

The schools have invested so much and when you look at the programming and some of the colleges Coolidge students are attending this year (Hopkins, Georgetown, Bucknell, Spellman) there's so much potential. But it's a tight building for one of the fastest growing areas in the city.[/quote]

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