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[quote=Anonymous]The problem with HD Cooke is the feeder situation. Parents of means sometimes go to HD Cooke in the early years, but will leave between K & 2nd grade to get into the Deal pyramid / a good charter school / the suburbs. Put HD Cooke into the Deal boundary ... or to the Oyster-Adams middle school ... and you would see the wait list explode at HD Cooke.

Teachers are very good. Teacher attrition did not appear more than normal. Facility is in good shape. Parent satisfaction is directly correlated to to concern over the long-term (middle school) situation. As for a lack of "diversity", well yeah, there's very few high-SES families and/or whites. Parent involvement is sub-par -- a few parents try extremely hard but the numbers aren't there to effectively help.

It's a puzzle that HD Cooke is not a Spanish dual-language school. Seems like building an dual-language system of elementary-middle-high schools (with Marie Reed / Oyster / Bancroft / Powell / CHEC as the middle and high schools) would be successful in the long-term.

I pulled my kid out last year, into what is generally considered to be a better-regarded school. She thinks the new school is "easy". My take-away is that the teachers at HD Cooke prepared her well.[/quote]

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