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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eastern has potential, but only if DCPS finds a way to drastically and simultaneously improve Eliot-Hine, Stuart-Hobson and potentially Jefferson such that a critical mass of high-SES families will feel comfortable.   Does anyone with the possible exception of Word Salad Lady think this likely anytime in the foreseeable future?  After relaunch, about 60 percent of 6th Grade students were not proficient in either reading or math, while the percentage of higher-performing students was negligible.  With perpetual Title I status (99% FARMS) and few, if any, high-SES families feeding from rising Ward 6 elementary schools like Maury, Brent or even Ludlow-Taylor, the prospects remain dim.  If anything, the redrawn boundaries will not change the fact that a large number of students are drawn from EotR.  They will now simply be classified as OOB.  [/quote]

Honestly, until there is some critical mass of white kids and I don't know that number would be probably at least 10%, the white, higher SES parents on the Hill from Eliot, SH are NOT going to choose eastern.  Eastern looks good and offers some good programs but most parents don't want their kid to be the "only" in HS which are already difficult years academically, socially and mentally.   Everyone can rave about Banneker but its the same perception. Thats the high perfoming black HS, School without Walls is the preferred test in option for white parents.    [/quote]

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