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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in the neighborhood and I'm very interested in McKinley Tech as a high school option if my kids end up being interested in STEM topics (and smart enough to get accepted).  They are 2 and 5 now, so this is a long way off.

[b]What I don't understand is why there are so few white kids there?  Any thoughts?[/b]

Do the kids come from throughout the city?  Is there diversity in terms of SES?[/quote]

There are very few white highschool kids in DC, period. It's just a small demographic sliver. Those few are in private school, SWW, and - increasingly - Wilson. Keeping your eyes set on only those options just because they make you feel comfortable seems very limiting to me.[/quote]

Any thoughts?  Did you just move to the area, are you new to urban education? Are you new to DC? Are you incredibly naive? Where do your children go to school now? 
Hell there's very few "whites" in the catchment area for McKinley period!!!![/quote]

No I am not new to DC, I have lived here for more than 15 years, more than ten of them just a handful of blocks from McKinley.  I am somewhat new to thinking about high school options because my kids are young and I would like to know more about McKinley.  What I do know, however is that as a selective school there is no "catchment area".

You are completely wrong if you are talking about the area around the school having few whites. (Are tiki new to DC? Are you very naive?! Or just rude and ignorant?)  It depends block by block, and there are definitely more white people on the NW side just a couple of blocks from the school, but you are looking at a racial breakdown that is close to 50 percent white or higher in some parts of the surrounding neighborhood (the most recent census figures are already way out of date). PP is right, of course that while there has been a huge baby boom in the past five years among higher SES (Most often but not always white) living nearby there are fewer white teenagers around so far.

My question was a valid one.  There are few great high schools in the city and McKinley seems to get great results. I don't understand why it is not chosen by more white families, regardless of whether they live close by.  Personally, if we are stool in the city when my kids are old enough I would definitely consider it.  Our inbound option is Dunbar which frankly is appalling.[/quote]

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