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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 115 elementary schools on myschooldc.  SWS is the third whitest.  67% white in a city that is majority people of color.

Lafayette 73
Janney 71 
School Within a School 67 
Murch 66
Brent 65[/quote]

One of these things is not like the other...[/quote]

Exactly.  It's worse that a city-wide school is so white. [/quote]

Until just three years ago, SWS was a neighborhood school consisting of Pre-K and K. It's boundaries were within the Capitol Hill neighborhood (very similar demographics as Brent). Those students are now in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade and they are predominantly white. Many of them have younger siblings who are now attend the school and are white. There were very few non-sibling spots. [/quote]

Shouldn't it have the same demo as Peabody/Watkins?  It was NOT the Brent boundary, madam apologist.[/quote]

I think you misunderstood the PP. The demographics of SWS even within the Cluster boundaries skewed more heavily upper middle SES and white. It wasn't a secret for 15 years or so that the difference in the SWS population and downstairs at Peabody traditional were starkly different. We went to SWS when IB families could still stand in line on a designated day and get in for sure. Honestly, I love the Principal but he looked around the room after the line was let in, and essentially wait to all- including OOB that he wa sure we would all get spaces. I think he felt comfortable with the crowd and that was it.

DD is mixed-race and we are IB, upper middle SES, so we didn't feel out of place. I will say that we had all of 3 AA in our class, two of whom were kicked out after investigations proving they lived in Maryland. SWS is the only school on the Hill that I know of that successfully did this. I think it is even more tightly controlled now, and my sense is that the sense of exclusiveness and snobbery are becoming more open.[/quote]

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