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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school system as a whole is about 10% white.  60-70% black.

The school is in ward 5 - a majority black ward (I think around 70%+).

I want to make sure my school is working to spread the word / outreach to a variety of families and not just defaulting on the spreading the word based on social networks of current families.

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I live in Ward 5 and my part of Ward 5 is about 60-70% white right now.  this is the exact opposite from when I moved there more than 10 years ago and was one of only about 5 white households on my block.  And many of those newer white families now have young children (and are remaining in the city and sending them to charter or DCPS rather than private) at the same time, there are fewer black families with young kids (some new families but the longer term poorer families have moved away as house prices have soared).  A more helpful way to look at it would be what percentage are middle class -- the better schools simply have higher percentages of middle class families regardless of race.  And it is the educated, middle class families that are (on the whole, obviously there are exceptions) doing their research and applying for the best charter schools, and are more willing/able to drive half way across the city to get their kid to whichever school they end up in.[/quote]

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