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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look up DCPS SAT scores. I think on the DCPS site. There's a spreadsheet. You can also find AP scores. Walls is the only school that's just across the board higher. JR is obviously huge and high-variance. [/quote]

Thanks. Found the SAT (https://dcps.dc.gov/publication/dcps-data-set-sat) and AP (https://dcps.dc.gov/publication/ap-score-data-sets) spreadsheets. The averages are indeed as you say. I would have expected Banneker to do better but I take it that there is a very long thread from a few years back on that topic.[/quote]

Why do you think your child will score in line with others? I have a Banneker student who has scored 5 on APs and 1540 on SATs. You’re aware this is a Title 1 school. The kids are all very studious and bright but there are some kids who have tough home lives. If your kid doesn’t have these challenges, s/he will score high. Test score track HHI closely.
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My personable Asian 8th grader who finds 10th grade math/Trigonometry easy at a DC charter, scored 600s on the SAT for admission to a Johns Hopkins CTY STEM camp and has a 3.9 GPA wasn't so much as waitlisted at Banneker.  I'm left with the impression that Banneker doesn't knock itself out on the STEM achievement front.  We're staying at the charter, which the kid isn't wild about, with new appreciation for it.[/quote]

Banneker is a Humanities focused school so no you won't get the STEM feel you want. It's not hard to figure out. I'd look at moving if you feel like your kid needs more of a challenge. TJ would probably be great..Blair also. [/quote]

Do you not understand the residency requirements that apply to public schools across the country or are you trying to make a different point about where you would like people from certain backgrounds to move to? I'm genuinely curious.[/quote]

DP who referenced TJ, Blair and RMIB. No, it has nothing to do with race. Just making a point about how annoying parents are when they declare nothing is possibly good enough for their “advanced” child. Ok friend, try your hand at the VERY selective and demanding public programs just a short move away. Oh, Larlo won’t get into TJ? You don’t say … [/quote]

You are making a big leap assuming nothing is good enough for some parents. Parents asking questions is a good thing. They should not have to leave DC just because you have put Banneker on a pedestal and it offends you that others are not blindly following suit. [/quote]

Just stop. You’re embarrassing yourself. [/quote]

And you’re embarrassing Banneker with your absurd deflections of the administration’s lack of transparency.[/quote]

JFC you are absurd. “Lack of transparency”? Ok. [/quote]

How hard is to post college acceptances to the school website?

That you’re on here attacking those who dare to ask for such information adds quite a bit of intrigue.

Suffice to say that you are not doing the school any favors.

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DP here. It's mind boggling to see how lacking in self-awareness some of you are. Kids are not required to inform the public of their college acceptances nor are their schools. If that information is provided, it's a nice to have. For the schools and students who opt to share this info, DCUM folks like yourself are often dismissive of the accomplishments of those children anyway and demanding of identifiable info of them (URM? Legacy? Recruited?)

Your sense of entitlement is so off-putting and presumptuous. Again, I love to help prospective families, but I'm certainly not here to recruit or persuade people to choose Banneker or to attract parents who lack respect for its current student body or administration. [/quote]

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