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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes Maury and Brent better is not that they are whiter, but they are richer. Neither has a housing complex that feeds to it.  Tyler has Potomac Gardens, LT has whatever that building by the Sherwood Rec center is called.  Public housing in DC is, unfortunately, always majority black (except maybe in upper Columbia Heights where there are some latinx). 
Most black kids at Maury come from high SES black families.  There is also a great chunk of black kids being raised by white or mixed foster or adoptive parents. But the poverty levels are tiny. 
They are not a Title 1 school like Watkins, Tyler, and, until recently, LT.

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The building next to Sherwood Rec Center is a public senior living facility that doesn't permit children. The IB for L-T is actually more expensive on average than Maury and the vast majority of L-T's FARMS eligible kids come from OOB. It is true that L-T is substantially more OOB than Maury and that's the difference, but the IB percentage has been increasing so quickly that I wouldn't be surprised if they look similar demographically pretty soon. (Although L-T also has quite a few self-contained classrooms that are almost entirely OOB and so I think the overall school demographics are slightly misleading.) Brent's IB real estate is more $$ still and so the IB is richer and whiter, so Brent is richer and whiter.

FYI Watkins isn't T1 either and hasn't been in some time.[/quote]

Because I was curious, the "Economically Disadvantaged" rates:

LT: 16%
Brent: 3%
Maury: 7%
Watkins: 18%
Peabody: 4%
Miner: 100% (actually means above some threshold; I don't know what that threshold is)
JO Wilson: 100%[/quote]

Considering that LT was T1 as recently as the 2019-2020 (which requires 40%+ FARMS), that is some crazy fast gentrification. Considering Watkins was in the transitional non-T1 category as far back as 2015, it is crazy that Watkins has a higher at risk percentage than L-T. Of course, in the DC context, all of these numbers are pretty low… and Brent is among the lowest in the city.[/quote]

You can’t really Watkins to the other elementary schools for in-bound or at risk without noting that PK3-K are at Peabody.[/quote]

+1 It looks pretty similar to other Hill schools when accounting for Peabody.  A lot of Hill families bail on DCPS by upper elementary. We turned down upper ES spots at both Brent and Maury this year[/quote]

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