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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the latest on Two Rivers? I know they don’t have the panache or reputation they did pre-pandemic. We got <15 waitlisted at both TR Young and 4th Street for PK4, so almost guaranteed to get an offer at one or both. Probably prefer Young because it’s more convenient for us and a nicer campus (4th St has that sad little playground where the kids can suck Florida Ave diesel fumes all day). Very happy at our IB Title I for ECE but for sure want out by K. Demand for both TRs has fallen precipitously though. In 2019 TR 4th PK4 had 239 on their results day waitlist. Last year it was 46 with 36 offers made by October.

Is it really still that undesirable, or is this a hangover from all the bad press here and elsewhere during the pandemic? I don’t really hear great stuff about Capitol Hill Montessori either (also very good chance of getting off the waitlist with a <25 number) but they haven’t seen the same huge drop in demand either. Granted, their campus is gorgeous and in a nicer area…[/quote]

I think you'd be fine there through 3rd. The upper elementary academic performance isn't good (especially in light of the demographics) and the middle school is really struggling academically and behaviorally, it's in a downward spiral.

I think it's a case of expanding faster than the administration could handle, and expanding before they had a good grasp on operating TR4th through its full grade span (which was 8th at the time). I don't think they ever had strong enough academics, what they had was hopeful preschool parents who didn't have a better option and gave TR the benefit of the doubt because it was new. Well, it's not new anymore, and the Hill elementaries and Stuart-Hobson and Eliot-Hine are strengthening. So there just isn't the same rejection of DCPS as there was before. Also it's just really hard to start a middle school, period, and middle schools tend to struggle if they don't have a strong high school. So some of this is baked in.

There's also just too much woo. A lot of families left because the school was super slow to reopen during COVID. There's a lot of philosophical and political talk and that's a priority, they just shrug at the academics deficiencies. Behavior isn't effectively managed, especially in the middle school where the kids are physically strong enough to do some real damage. The administration tries but their methods aren't effective. The teachers leave.

If you don't have a better number elsewhere I'd take TRY. That will get you a few years to get in somewhere you like better. [/quote]

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