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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone going on and on about MS IB buy in actually looked at the IB percentages at these schools? Eliot-Hine and Jefferson have been steadily growing over time - both from around 40% IB four years ago to over 50% now. Meanwhile Stuart-Hobson has hovered around 25-30%. At the elementary schools, IB percentages over time largely mirror the middle schools they feed into. [/quote]

I think you need to look at the IB capture rate rather than the percent of students that are IB.

And also, SH attracts OOB students to its feeders and itself directly *because* it is a desirable school. [/quote]

I feel like this reaction was defensive… I think both points are valid. More families from feeder elementary schools are choosing to go to their inbounds middle school. Also some families choose to go to the schools because they are viewed as higher quality than where ever they are in bounds for. Also with the strange gerrymandered looking boundaries of some of the Capitol Hill schools, some of the out of bounds kids might actually live right nearby, but have gotten into feeders with proximity preference. So while technically out of bounds, they are still nearby.[/quote]

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