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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oyster Adams doesn’t “work” it’s simply higher income than other dual language school communities. [/quote]

+1. What separates Oyster Adams from Bancroft? From Powell or Marie Reed? Cleveland or Tyler? Being a neighborhood school + DL is not the magic. There are already seven other DL elementary schools in DCPS that operate more like a neighborhood school that teaches in Spanish, versus a dual language school that people choose (by moving IB or lotterying) for the Spanish. OA is unique because not only is it in a very high income neighborhood, but it also attracts high income Spanish dominant families through the lottery. That means they can accelerate and push the language instruction much more than at any other school that can't afford for their students to miss half of the math or reading instruction. It also helps that they are the only school that goes pre-K through 8th and has the only high performing immersion middle school program in DCPS. OA is unique and likely the only way to come close to replicating it would be through a city-wide lottery school that is full immersion (so has a level of self selection), goes through eighth, then feeds into JR and/or MacArthur (in the future). [/quote]

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