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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools here are getting better not because of DCPS but more high SES families are attending. Starts with the free pre school that gets us hooked in. its ALL the types of parents.[/quote]

At these schools the students from higher SES families are more heavily weighted in the earlier grades that do not take the DC CAS .  While there are some that stay, I think it does show that the students from lower SES families are getting more.

And that is to DCPS credit, as much as I'd like to think that our PTA bake sales are really doing that much.[/quote]

OP thank you for shining a light on something positive - all to rare these days (IRL or on DCUM).

And PP is right, those improvements for those schools are mostly about leadership at the schools and their engagement of parents (or parents engagement of leaders).  I expect the scores to continue to rise for those schools as higher SES parents stick around incrementally longer.  Still doubtful they'll stay through 5th, but staying for K, 1st, 2nd... it all makes a difference.

Only potential issue is if the schools get popular enough to have waitlists, and then there is a big exodus of higher SES families for 3rd-5th or 4th-8th for ECs, and then a lot of students who weren't at the school before come in in later years... that already happens at some schools and it's harder to catch up kids who may have been at less effective schools before.[/quote]

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