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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b] A lot of Hill families bail on DCPS by upper elementary. [/b]We turned down upper ES spots at both Brent and Maury this year[/quote]

Please. At Brent and Maury 4th grade numbers are actually higher than K and 1st grade numbers this year.  There are around 60 kids enrolled at Brent for K, but more than 70 in 4th grade (cohort that's still more than 80% in-boundary). Yes, some Hill families leave their high-performing elementary schools along the way, but others replace them.  We stayed through 5th grade at a Hill DCPS and are glad we did.  My kids bike to school on their own and work at least a year ahead of grade level in reading and math.  Our oldest went on to a private middle school where she's ahead of the curve.  Get a life, PP.[/quote]

Right, so you also bailed on DCPS just a year or two later than the PP. Pot, meet kettle.[/quote]

that wasn’t the question. the question was whether the upper grades are “bad” and whether white parents bail because they are “too black.” the actual data/experience show these allegations to be false race-baiting (big surprise). [/quote]

Why didn't you go to Stuart Hobson or Eliot-Hine or Jefferson? Was it because the schools are too black? Or because of the quality of the education?

The argument you are making through your actions applies one year later - some parents just choose to act on it and get their students in place a year earlier than others. Really glad you stuck it out through upper Elementary to bail and go to private, but some make the decision to go to private a year or two earlier than you do. I don't think that warrants looking down on them for making the same decision you ultimately did.[/quote]

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