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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love that OP expressed concern with the school and is immediately called a rascist.  Way to be defensive, RH parnets.  The fact is, the percentage of free and reduced price lunch students at a school is the best single predictor of educational quality.  So  it makes huge sense for OP to be concerned about the additional of lower income neighborhoods.  We live in that district now, and while we don't think our options are bd, per say, we will be looking strongly at private schools as well as moving nother district.

OP - per your concerns about being priced out of Bethesda,, you might look at the Carderock/Bannockburn districts.  Great elementary schools with a wider range of housing options.  Good luck. [/quote]

Free and reduced price lunch is a predictor of test scores, but not of quality.  If you want to  meausre educational quality using test scores you need to look at change over time.  Which schools are moving kids to higher levels of performance?

Evidence shows us that in mixed income schools middle and high income children do as well as they would in segregated schools, and lower income children perform better.  I would argue that the schools that are changing outcomes for kids, for the better, are in fact the better schools.

I'm a parent in the Somerset catchment area with a child at Westland.  I am very glad that my child will be through middle school before this middle school is built.  We moved into this area specifically to go to a middle school with diversity (combined with other reasons that have nothing to do with schools).  It seems like the new school will get all the diversity, and Westland will end up very white, which is not what I want for my child.[/quote]

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