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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if you're still reading, I have a modest suggestion for you. Dive into US census data for Cap Hill NE, even though it's almost a decade old now. Also, tour the north Hill and look around.

Stuart Hobson is DCPS' #3 performing middle school, after Deal #1 and Hardy #2. Yet SH's student body is around 14% white in a school catchment area that's roughly 80% white. Five years ago, SH's student body was 12% white. What does this tell you? Have IB UMC parents falling over themselves to enroll since Hobson's spectacular $40 million renovated four years ago?   No, they're mostly rushing off to BASIS, a school with really crappy facilities.  [/quote]

Actually, part of the problem is the so-called "catchment" area is tiny - gerrymandered that way to keep the IB population small to make room for the huge numbers of OOB kids from Watkins, JO Wilson, etc., who all live many miles away.  If the catchment was redrawn to cover, say, a mile radius around the school, I'd bet it would transform overnight.[/quote]

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