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Can't Bancroft already feed to Oyster-Adams?[/quote]

No.  There is no school that feeds to Oyster-Adams.[/quote]

You might be right - the Oyster-Adams option has been a de facto thing I think because O-A loses kids at higher grades and that opens spots, right?[/quote]

There are more available spots in O-A’s middle school, but those spots are not exclusively taken by Bancroft students.  Students move to O-A from Marie Reed (which is geographically closer to O-A), LAMB, Stokes and Bancroft.  However, in order to be admitted, those students must be at grade level in both English and Spanish.  That’s why there are far more Hispanic students in O-A’s upper grades, compared to the primary school.  There are not many kids who come from English-dominant homes that would be able to perform at grade-level in both languages in middle school.  That being said, I have heard several O-A teachers say that the students that transfer in from the aforementioned schools are generally not as well-prepared as the home-grown O-A students.  Other than SES, I’m not sure why that is the case. [/quote]

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