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[quote=Anonymous]JR is Jackson Reed high school. Be careful because some elementaries have recently been re-zoned to MacArthur, the new high school. US News is likely counting PK4 as PK and not making a distinction between schools with PK3 and schools with PK4. Or USNews is just out of date. Apple tree is done through the same lottery process as all the other schools I believe. I suggested Inspired Teaching because you asked about charters and as a charter, it doesn't have a boundary. So you won't be ranked behind in-boundary applicants. It's a place where your kids can all get in, if one of them has a pretty good number. And it's in a lower housing cost area, does that matter? As for reading proficiency, attend carefully to the at-risk percentages and ELL (English Language Learner) and special needs percentages of each school when you're judging performance. It's considered impolite to say you don't want a school with very many kids with special needs or low income etc., even if you actually feel that way. You'll fit in better in this left-leaning and policy-aware city if you're careful to be tactful about that. Inspired Teaching, for example, has far higher percentages than JR feeder schools do. And that correlates closely with various scores. Yes proficiency is higher in upper NW schools, but that doesn't necessarily mean the teaching is better, sometimes it just means the kids are an easier group because they have better support at home. As for Virginia, different states report performance metrics differently so it's hard to compare. The definition of "proficient" varies by state. So it's hard to say. [/quote]
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