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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCB vs YuYing vs Ludlow vs Maury

More discussions amongst other parents we know post lottery, and was curious of community thoughts on these schools; some trying to discern whether to try to stay inbounds rankingswise or prioritize the charter route; all non-yt; AA, latino, some mixed ethnicity:

Maury: a few parents are inbound for Maury(K); Is the environment as exclusionary(clique-ish) as it seems from other posts? Would it be a school to avoid if youre a POC(AA, latino) or would potentially the level of academic instruction override the lack of diversity if you have an opportunity to attend the school?

Ludlow: Others are inbound for ludlow; Seems similar to Maury, less academic, more "fun"? Huge playground and field and seems to have a ton of enrichment afterschools; Seems to have a diverse teacher group, whereas Maury does not. [b]However, based on test scores, AA students dont seem to perform well there at all.[/b]

YuYing: Main issue seems to be with a perceived lack of communication with the school? From other threads, some have reported a persistent lack of consistent communication with school staff. How is the environment overall? Academics seem just ok? Any specific thoughts on how happy kids seem here, how inclusive does the environment appear?, how collaborative do the parents seem?

DCB: Seems to be the most balanced of all schools listed, with the main and maybe only issue being the rough dropoff? any other notable issues with DCB?

If you were looking for a solid or strong academic school (though play based for ECE), warm, fun environment with good school leadership, parent groups that seem welcoming.. without factoring the language aspect.. how would you rank these schools(pk3-5)?[/quote]

According to the EmpowerK12 data, LT has *the* highest performing Hispanic ES children in the city (in math, it's 93% 4+ vs 78% at Maury, which is #2; in ELA, it's 93% vs 80% at Mann, which is #2); the multiracial data is also very good, though EmpowerK12 doesn't include it, so you need to go to the spreadsheet itself. So it's not that non-white children aren't doing well, it's that AA children aren't. My guess is that this is explained mostly by SES rather than race, because LT's socioeconomically disadvantaged kids perform particularly badly and its non-socioeconomically disadvantaged kids perform particularly well. I think that's the actual explanatory variable and race happens to cut across that. That is, most Hispanic kids at LT are UMC kids (who are IB), as are a high percentage of the multiracial kids (including kids that are part AA), which is not true in many other places in the city which have MC/LMC Hispanic populations; on the other hand, the majority of AA kids at LT are economically disadvantaged, which is not the case at some other schools. I don't say this as any kind of value judgment and it's not a good thing that economically disadvantaged kids at LT aren't doing better, but I think that's actually what's happening. Certainly, even in a vacuum, non-White non-AA kids are doing great at LT academically.[/quote]

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