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[b]ACPS is an urban school district.[/b] At Mason, you have kids from Arlandria/Chirilagua section of Alexandria who are new arrivals from Central America and language learners. Their parents primarily work in construction and the service industry. Then you have kids in $1-2M homes here.

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I’ve seen this come up a couple of times in recent discussions on ACPS. To be clear, ACPS is not an urban school district. Alexandria has similar demographics to Arlington, Montgomery County, etc. But it has created such a poor school system that a disproportionate number of people with resources have fled to private schools, leaving the publics looking different than the “city” as a whole.[/quote]

You are incorrect here. While demographics in those other districts may be similar, an urban school district is characterized by the fact that it's a densely populated metropolitan area.  Those other districts are suburban, however Alexandria City is 4 miles outside of DC, has a city government, a centralized school management system, a mayor, a city council, a city manager, and a robust public transportation system.  It has a high population density, a diverse student population from a wide range of ethnic and socioeconomic background that's 60% FARM, and a large ELL population. Students use DASH and WMATA to navigate the city, the neighborhoods are walkable with a mix of SFH, townhomes, and high rise apartment complexes, and the city houses a tourist destination and downtown   It is an urban school system.

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Yes you are right. Not sure why PP used the word city in quotes. Alexandria actually is a city and not a county. (The county portion became Arlington ~ hundred years ago.)

Parts of DC actually feel more suburban than Alexandria, and they are not upzoning the single family neighborhoods there. And they have a height limit unlike Alexandria. Also, DC doesn’t build large 6,000 student urban high schools. [/quote]

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