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Thank you for all the comments and condo links. Great Schools give Oyster Adams 10/10. Is that accurate? It’s all depressing. Maybe I’ll have to move into 1B.

My son is severely ADHD. He loses his own ice cream cone in the ice cream shop. He also processes information slowly. He excels at history and spelling. He’s probably a year behind in Spanish, but loves it. [/quote]

In DC (and most places) Great Schools mostly reflects the wealth of the student population, so most schools with good scores are in the most expensive parts of town. Because half the students are from Spanish-dominant homes, Oyster has more socio-economic diversity than most DCPS schools although most of the children from Spanish-dominant homes live outside the boundary zone. It is a strong school, but the housing in the attendance zone is really, really expensive.

Not sure how immersion is done at your current school, but at Oyster math is only taught in Spanish. [/quote]

Adding - and any children who are new to the school, past 1st grade and who don't speak Spanish at home, will be given a Spanish proficiency test before being allowed to enroll. You can insist on them attending, but if their Spanish isn't strong enough they will strongly encourage you to go to SWW @ FS, which is the monolingual alternative[/quote]

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