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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did Payne get an award for its inboundary gentrifiying?

Their application highlight is that the school was 99.9% Black in 2016. It’s 50% Black now.

https://nationalblueribbonschools.ed.gov/assets/winning/asset/2024/school_application/24dc101pu_payne_elementary_school_finalapplication.pdf
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No, it’s because IB white families started sending their kids there. So now the demographics better match the neighborhood which is more equitable (or so we were told during the last boundary study!) [/quote]

Kids who lived at DC General when it was a homeless shelter were IB for Payne and (I think) made up a sizeable portion of the student body. The mayor announced the closure of DC General in 2016 and people were slowly moved elsewhere until it closed fall of 2018. My guess is that is part of the shift in Payne's demographics and improved test scores too.[/quote]

I was trying to find the data on teacher retention/turnover that DC provided recently, but I forget which site it is on. I am more familiar with Payne than DC Bilingual- and I know Payne has a very high teacher retention rate, as well as student retention, which I imagine helps performance as well. They do continue to add kids to classes when spots open up each year, but I think having more consistency helps teachers and kids continue momentum. This issue is one of the double edged swords of the school choice we have in this city. Many families/kids switch schools multiple times, and I have to imagine this negatively impacts their success in school. [/quote]

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