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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, don't worry about PARCC scores - the test is poorly designed and mainly just measures demographics/parents' income.  Note: every state that adopted the PARCC a decade back, two dozen, has scrapped it by now.  Only DC clings to it to this crappy test.

Very few Upper Middle Class parents will go with a DC public school that isn't majority high SES (socio-economic status) past 1st grade.  For PreK, you're just looking for a spot that works with your commute.  For K and 1st, you're looking for more.  From 2nd-5th, you probably want a majority, or even overwhelmingly (read Brent, SWS, Maury, possibly LT) high SES school. Call me racist, but white percentages count for a lot in a majority white neighborhood like Capitol Hill.  Look at them on the DCPS school profiles pages and try to lottery accordingly in the coming years.[/quote]

I'm not on the Hill so maybe this is why (but EOTP), but what I want is a school that's solidly middle class. Not upper, or at least not too upper, just regular middle. Then include perhaps a few high and some low income as well. This is what doesn't exist in DC. I'm part of the problem because I'm UMC but I don't want my kids going to school with too many people that have as much or more money than us, or much much less. Perhaps that's controversial, I'm not sure, but I just haven't found this so we're in a charter with a lot of wealthy/UMC people and a significant number of low income and probably not a whole lot in between. It's close as I have seen though.[/quote]

Maybe it depends on what you mean by "solidly middle class." If you mean solidly middle class for DC (i.e., 2 Feds), then this fairly accurately describes L-T. If you mean actually solidly middle class in the nationwide demographic sense, then it definitely does not.[/quote]

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