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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What percent of LT kids are are attending SH for middle school?  Are families staying?  Or peeling off for charters? [/quote]

The percentage is dropping as the school gentrifies, but it’s still a solid majority. I believe L-T lost roughly 25% of kids last year between 4th and 5th, which is still substantially less than Brent/Maury/SWS, which all lose more than 50%. That said, part of L-T’s gentrification was just a huge influx of IB kids who previously went elsewhere. For years, L-T has been adding a full class per grade. Next year’s 5th grade is planned to be the first 5th grade year with 3 classes and the current 4th grade is the oldest majority IB grade, so it will be interesting to see what happens there.[/quote]

One big plus of L-T is its small class size relative to NW schools, Maury & Brent. It made a conscious decision about 5 years ago to expand to three classes once class sizes hit 23/24 instead of keeping 2, big, almost entirely IB classes. Nearly all L-T classes max out in the 20-22 student range. Recently they’ve had to drop a few self-contained classrooms because of space constraints and next year it is likely that two specials will have to share a classroom or one special will operate from a cart. It depends a little bit on how budgeting stuff shakes out and what sort of cohort mixing restraints remain in place (i.e., whether in person specials ever become possible).[/quote]

That last part is disgusting. Dropping self-contained classrooms FOR general education. If I were one of those families I’d absolutely try and sue.[/quote]

What? Do you even understand how self-contained classroom assignments work? DCPS makes that decision and the classrooms get moved to another school if they’re needed. There is still a self-contained classroom covering every grade except PK and those classrooms all have OOB kids in them, so it’s not like theyre not accommodating IB students. L-T still has a bunch of self-contained classrooms. Many DCPS schools have none. Are those schools disgusting?[/quote]

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