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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live on Capitol Hill and our child goes to Two Rivers. The school is exactly two miles away from our house in SE. While Two Rivers is obviously a city wide school, we've found that nearly all of her friends live in the greater Capitol Hill area so it really feels like a neighborhood school. She plays soccer with classmates through Soccer on the Hill and we always run into school friends at Eastern Market and Yards Park.

I don't know anyone from the neighborhood who goes to Mundo Verdo or Stokes, and I only know of one child who goes to IT and another who goes to Sela. Yu Ying is sort of the exception -- I know a few kids there. So this thread made me curious -- are other charter schools like Two Rivers in that they have a large percentage of students from a specific geographic location? Or is our experience just an anomaly? I would think that many folks would want to go to a school that is relatively close and I'd this is the case, the charter school may actually feel looked a neighborhood school. [/quote]

We live in Ward 5 close to MV's new location.  On our block we have kids who attend 2R, LAMB and YY.  I don't know anyone who attend our in bound elementary, Walker Jones.  I always run into DC's classmates/families wherever I go including Target, Home Depot, Harris Teeter,  Costco, etc.  I think for most of the popular charters in Ward 5/6, they mostly draw from families in the ward or that's what it feels like.[/quote]

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