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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh. If only the Shaw Middle School stuff could work out in a viable way (and I'm not that optimistic, but imagine if)-- Seaton, Garrison, and Thomson would be the hottest schools in town.[/quote]

If these schools are so good, why is the middle school so bad? The students that attend the middle school are coming from these schools.[/quote]

Do you know so little about DCPS that you actually think that is true? It's because the current middle school is within Cardozo high school and doesn't have its own leadership. The feeder elementary students tend to go elsewhere if they have parents capable of arranging it and a good enough lottery number. The hope is that a freestanding middle school with its own principal, in a nicely renovated building, will be more appealing and attract more of the feeder kids. Eventually building to a better-performing school that attracts a lot of feeder kids like Stuart-Hobson. Eventually.[/quote]

Also Thomson and Ross feed into Francis Stevens so it’s really just Garrison and Seaton feeding into Cardozo. With many of those kids leaving for better middle school options, there’s no chance that the middle school will be “good” without some changes. [/quote]

https://edscape.dc.gov/node/1640846

Yup. According to this data, which was shared in another thread, Thomson kids - who have a choice between Jefferson and School Without Walls at Francis Stevens - seem to stick around through fifth for the most part, with the majority choosing Francis Stephens.

Garrison and Seaton are strong ES's that see a lot more drop-off in the later grades because Cardozo isn't a great MS option. Those schools would benefit from a solid Shaw Middle, if it ever happens. And maybe Cardozo would benefit from not having to run both a middle and high school? [/quote]

The idea with Euclid St middle school is that it will relieve Cardozo's projected overcrowding and provide more seats in the system generally, and that a dedicated middle school will work better than the current setup. Since the current setup is really pretty bad, I think it'll be a positive change.[/quote]

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