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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It just isn't true that "a large number" of Hill families move from Peabody to Watkins, though this was the case a decade ago.

Peabody is two-thirds in-boundary and half white, while Watkins is not even 20 IB% and white.   Moreover, the percentage of in-boundary kids at Stuart Hobson has dipped several years running, bringing it down to around 15% from a third a decade ago.

The hot new charter for Hill families is really likely to be DC Global in NW, which starts in 6th grade.

Eastern HS is 0% white in a catchment area that's two-thirds white.

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First, if you search for Watkins, you'll find way too many threads on this, but that's no reason not to start another.

There's a significant difference between the upper and lower Watkins grade; as you might expect, there are a lot more high SES kids in the lower grades. (To try to avoid getting distracted by this issue: by high SES I mean, in general, kids whose parents have college or grad school education. Also, note that the share white and in-bound is correlated with share high SES, but there are plenty of exceptions: Almost all white kids are high SES, but a very large portion of black kids are too; in the lower grades, I'd guess most, but I really don't know. And some in-bounds kids are lower SES, and many out-of-bound kids are high SES, like mine.)

The question, of course, is how many of the lower grade kids will continue. In past years, relatively few have, so even when there were a lot of high SES kids in K in Peabody and 1st and maybe 2nd at Watkins, that share declined at older grades. (And yes, many kids stayed and continued to Stuart Hobson and had good experiences.) My impression is that that's changing. The dropout rate is going down, so this year's 3rd grade has a higher share of high SES kids than last year, 2nd grade has a higher share than last year, and so on.  There has been a bigger dropoff at 5th as kids go to Basis and Latin. To what extent that is changing and to what extent more kids will go to Stuart Hobson, I don't know.

- Parent of 2nd grader[/quote]

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