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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be clear, Duke Ellington is ranked #5 in the city on academics (USNWR), but of the top 5 it is the only one that does not accept kids based on academics. Entry is solely based on the audition, so saying Duke does not do well in academics ignores the fact that (a) arts is not included in the rankings and (b) it stands at #5 with many kids coming in with far lower academic standing than SWW, Banneker, McKinley.  Also many Duke grads do not go into the arts for college or a profession, but the training is pre-professional, so as others said, if your child is a "like" the arts person and not a "love the arts" person, a 8:30-5pm day will not serve them well.[/quote]

Do people really refer to the school as "Duke" now? All the other schools named after people go by the person's last name (like Banneker and McKinley above). Duke just sounds off.[/quote]My daughter went there for a year and her friends all referred to it that way.  Also want to support what the pp said.  Ellington is for kids who want pre-professional training and it's very siloed.  My kid went for literary media and I was very pleased with how much they required the kids to write and how many contacts they had with professional writers but she couldn't have tried out for the fall play or the choir.  You pretty much go in for one area and you focus strongly in that.

And it was quite a few years ago when she was there - so it could have changed since then - but math and science was not strong.  But you don't go there for high level academics, you go there for pre-professional training.  That's the key thing to understand about whether your child should go there or not.  Is your child driven to focus on that area?  Her friends who went there are still involved professionally in the arts in some way shape or form.  One sings opera.  Another is trying to break into standup and improv.  Another is a poet.  So it served them well.[/quote]

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