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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it really odd that someone would make such a bold claim like “all students earned a biliteracy seal” when the internet exists.

For anyone who wants the truth, look on page 10: https://dcpcsb.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Annual%20Report%202019-2020%28SQ5AA%29%28DistriColumbInternSchool%29.pdf[/quote]

Wow, thanks for this. Looks like 75% received the biliteracy seal, and 45/66 students were in the IB diploma program with 15 of the 45 receiving it (and another 14 students were within 2 points of receiving it). Also looks like around 50-54% of Spanish and French 11th graders meet standardized "mid intermediate" level of fluency/bilingualism. They're very unique students that look good on college applications (from Washington, DC with immersion AND IB - that checks a lot of college admissions boxes right there.) But those are scores that give me some concern for the rigor of the program as a whole and how well prepared these students will be to keep up in a much more competitive college environment. However all schools have a learning curve when they first open and I'm hopeful that DCI will continue to improve and be a strong option for the DC students lucky enough to get in. I also hope DCI doesn't push to expand too quickly to meet the increased demand from the feeders and further water down their program. I think it will be a shock to some of the parents that won the lottery in pre-K to lose in 6th grade and be stuck without a middle school option, but a premature expansion would hurt the school as a whole. IB is hard to do, and IB for all is exceptionally hard. There's a reason very few schools in the US attempt to offer that model.[/quote]

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