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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting site. 436 students who are in bounds for Eastern go to SWW, Latin, McKinley, Banneker, or Basis (not to mention students going to private schools or other high performing public schools). DCPS could get a pretty high performing cohort to go to Eastern if they were interested in supporting in-bound families and providing a good education for them. So far they haven't been, so you only have 15.5% of in-bound public school students attending, which is pretty shameful.

Jackson-Reed is also interesting. It would be at capacity if there were only 520 out of boundary students, but for some reason the city is letting 742 out of boundary students attend, and so kids end up having classes in utility closets.[/quote]

They need to solve the middle school problem to fix Eastern.  What do the numbers look like at SH, EH and Jefferson? [/quote]

Chicken-egg problem. I'm IB for Eastern. SH was a fallback only (Latin and BASIS were 1/2) precisely because Eastern was an absolute no-go. So my high performing kid isn't at SH because of Eastern. [/quote]

I agree it’s chicken and egg, although I think there are ways to approach these decisions and invest in the middles that will eventually support Eastern, even if that progress isn’t as fast as we’d like to see. Can I ask where you sent your kid to MS (it is a little unclear if you got in to Latin or BASIS)? And if they’re high-achieving, what deterred you from seeing SWW/Banneker/McKinley Tech as a plan for high school if you had gone to SH? [/quote]

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