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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - thanks, all!  I'm actually wondering more about Center City than KIPP specifically.  CC is in our neighborhood, has good scores, and gets good reviews (aside from the facilities) here.  But was a little taken aback that the percent of caucasian/white kids is listed as 0%.  Then second guessed my surprise, then thought about it more, still didn't know what to think, and posted here.  Does CC have the same model as KIPP?  I would definitely want to talk to parents and visit before making any decisions, but just wanted to get feedback on the experience of being at a 0% caucasian school versus 10-15% school.  [/quote]

CC does not have the same model as KIPP. They've been profiled a couple times in the media, and the Brightwood school in particular gets high marks. They do use the Appletree curriculum for ECE and I think their focus is very much on under-served kids. That does not mean that your could wouldn't thrive there; it just isn't who has enrolled in the past.

The school population not only black and latino, it's relatively low-income. I think it's been that way going back to when that building was a parochial school (a bunch of old DC parochial schools converted to charters a decade or so back, keeping some of the team but breaking from the archdiocese financially and in terms of curriculum). White families in the neighborhood (I'm one of them but my kids are older) have tended to aim for the so-called HRC's, attend private, or try to lottery into Wilson feeders, particularly Shepherd. [/quote]

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