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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting site. 436 students who are in bounds for Eastern go to SWW, Latin, McKinley, Banneker, or Basis (not to mention students going to private schools or other high performing public schools). DCPS could get a pretty high performing cohort to go to Eastern if they were interested in supporting in-bound families and providing a good education for them. So far they haven't been, so you only have 15.5% of in-bound public school students attending, which is pretty shameful.

Jackson-Reed is also interesting. It would be at capacity if there were only 520 out of boundary students, but for some reason the city is letting 742 out of boundary students attend, and so kids end up having classes in utility closets.[/quote]

They need to solve the middle school problem to fix Eastern.  What do the numbers look like at SH, EH and Jefferson? [/quote]

Chicken-egg problem. I'm IB for Eastern. SH was a fallback only (Latin and BASIS were 1/2) precisely because Eastern was an absolute no-go. So my high performing kid isn't at SH because of Eastern. [/quote]

I agree it’s chicken and egg, although I think there are ways to approach these decisions and invest in the middles that will eventually support Eastern, even if that progress isn’t as fast as we’d like to see. Can I ask where you sent your kid to MS (it is a little unclear if you got in to Latin or BASIS)? And if they’re high-achieving, what deterred you from seeing SWW/Banneker/McKinley Tech as a plan for high school if you had gone to SH? [/quote]

I'm not the PP but someone who made a similar decision, and it was because I prefer BASIS/Latin high schools to Banneker and McKinley. That leaves Walls, but there is not guarantee that even a straight A student will get in.

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Not PP either, but that’s the answer in our circles on the hill. You take the (HS) bird in hand as soon as you get it (with a little dithering, depending on your kid, if it’s basis)

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One of the high performing kids at our ES turned BASIS down this year. Went to the summer week and then pulled out. At least one other didn't lottery for BASIS at all. At least at our school, families have very mixed feelings about BASIS and many would prefer SH, so it's just about the HS... and even then some are saying no. I would say that it's the first time in recent memory at our school where the 5th grade isn't *that* different than the 4th grade was in terms of the mix of kids academics-wise, because a combo of lottery luck and aversion to BASIS means the highest performing kids mostly came back.[/quote]

We are at an SH feeder (likely the same one) and yes to all of this. I see more frustration about Latin because I think most parents would be perfectly happy with Latin for MS and HS, but BASIS just feels like a niche school for certain kinds of kids (and that niche is not just "high achieving" -- there are lots of high achieving kids who don't fit into the somewhat narrow profile for BASIS and what other things out of HS in particular).

Honestly, we just decided around 3rd grade that if we have to move, we'll move. That's how we resolved the Eastern issue. We've set up our lifestyle so that moving is a realistic option at any point we need to. We will lottery for Latin and may look at some Deal or Hardy feeders for 5th as well, though I doubt we'd actually take a spot at one for practical reasons (we would take Latin). Otherwise we'll do SH, pretty happily, and just plan to move either to NW or to the suburbs if our kid doesn't get a spot at Walls and no other acceptable option emerges.[/quote]

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