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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks everyone.  Can anyone tell me about Cardozo for middle school?[/quote]

You do not send your kid there if you care about academics and behavior.   I am a cynic on middle schools in DC.  I lived on the Hill back in the 90s and the "committed" parents were fighting to improve middle schools there. Cap Hil actually has good feeders (Brent especially) and their middle school options, 20 years later are mediocre at best. There is a reason the brain drain happens after 4 grade and they all head to latin, basis or private. So if the connected folks on the Hill cant turn it around, the folks in your neigbhorhood aren't either. Certainly not by the time your kid enters 6th grade.  I feel the same way about McFarland Middle.  A school is only as good as its feeder (ie the success of students) and the feeders to McFarland all currently have the same high SES flight by first grade. so there are no high SES families in 4th, 5th grade to feed to McFarland there won't be even from the current crop of PKers in the feeders.   Sorry to be a cynic but I have been wathcing this for well over a decade.  New buildings don't make a difference in academnics either (see Dunbar).  Brookland Middle which is beautiful and brand new has exactly one white kid in the school, so they clearly failed to attract any diversity.  [/quote]

...if you measure success in terms of number of white kids...
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