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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MRE had a good reputation several years ago and a really good principal. my take is that a lot of middle and higher SES families fled the neighborhood schools which brought test scores down and make more families choose elsewhere. It's a very small, walkable school and my take is that it still has a good group of teachers dedicated to the school.

A visit to the school is better than looking at the great schools website. Find out much teacher turnover there is from year to year. If you know of a couple other families that have the energy and resources to be school advocates in your neighborhood look at it together. That's what happened to Hyattsville Elementary several years ago.[/quote]

Hyattsville Elementary School parent here, and I agree with the above. Test scores (good or bad) don't really tell the story about what sort of education your child will get a school. Visit the school, meet the teachers and principal, and look around the community at other parents with similar age kids. At HES, a about two years before my oldest DD was ready for kindergarten, the local moms group set up a meeting with a lot of parents, the principal and some teachers, giving people a chance to ask a lot of hard questions and to get an idea about what the school was like. Getting parents who could otherwise afford to opt out of the public school to look at and seriously consider sending their children to the neighborhood school (and then doing it and following up with parental involvement at the school) is what will have the greatest long-term effect for the school and for the community.

A random Mt. Rainier Elementary fact: A few years ago Top Chef finalist Carla Hall had adopted the school and was working on improving menus and lunch options there. I don't know if she's still connected with the school or not, however.[/quote]

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