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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are newly at our IB for K. The school's 2017-8 demographics (the most recent I can find) are ~1/2 AA and ~1/3rd white. I am obviously aware that because the school is gentrifying, younger grades would likely have slightly different demographics... but DC's class of ~20 had 3 AA kids. Total. In fact, it had more Asian kids than AA kids (while Asian kids are apparently only 2% of the school). Anyway, really not what I was expecting.[/quote]

Yep, overall demographics at schools can be deceiving.  Many schools look super diverse, but then their early grades are mostly white, or white and a few Asian.  I'm thinking of our IB, another majority minority school EOTP, for which this is now the case.[/quote]

This is definitely the case at our new school Powell. We are in K.[/quote]

I am really curious to see what our IB looks like in 5 years. We only met 1 family at PK4 drop off that didn’t have either a doctor or a lawyer as a parent (or both) and those parents were an economist and a social worker. Insane! This is a school that was T1 until last year (or maybe two years ago). Not at all what I was expecting for.[/quote]

What school is this?  Is it on Capital Hill?[/quote]

My guess is Van Ness.[/quote]

Yes, Capitol Hill. L-T.[/quote]

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