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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] SH doesn't take many students from lottery (roughly 10% of rising 5th graders) -- the Ward 7 & 8 kids attend various feeder schools for SH, which are fed by Watkins (via Cluster), JO Wilson, Ludlow Taylor, and CH Montessori.  Some Ward 6 kids may lottery into SH, but these feeder schools draw varying degrees of OOB students who feed to SH, especially in upper ES grades.[/quote]

We left SH for a private after 6th grade out of Watkins (although we're IB for Brent) for several reasons.  Ward 7 and 8 kids, most coming out of the Hill feeders, were holding our son back academically, given that there was almost no ability grouping, teaching quality was highly uneven (better for 7th and 8th perhaps), and the atmosphere wasn't what we were looking for.  Too many badly behaved kids allowed to run wild in the halls and act out in classes.  In order for our kid to be prepped to be admitted to a private, we paid for 5-10 hours a week of tutoring for six months before he took admissions tests.

Unless SH starts serious ability grouping within the next 2-3 years, and attracts a lot more middle-class families, we won't bother with the school for our second child, at Brent in a lower grade.  We worry that, by the time our younger son tries to lottery into Latin or Basis, there won't be enough room.   There is talk of setting up a selective admissions DCPS middle school with a city-wide draw.  Perhaps that school will be the next Brent families turn to.  One can only hope.

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