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[quote=Anonymous]Bancroft is as far as you get in "flipping" a school where the inboundary demographics aren't fundamentally top-quintile.

That is to say, Brent or Ross could change because all of the lower-income families came from outside of the boundaries and lottery rules made it possible for them simply to not be enrolled on an equal footing because of their out-of-boundary status once demand increases.

Where odds of admission based on sibling and boundary preference put poorer families on an equal or superior footing to those who would seek to "flip" a school, the school only changes incrementally.

And you get something resembling Bancroft.  A school in a high-income neighborhood with some poorer residents, which keeps some of the highest income families from coming, but a good number come anyway.  There's a decent PTA, active parents, but nothing like JKLMM.

In a setting like Barnard or Powell or West or Raymond or Tubman, etc., you would have to have all of the highest-income families be offered a seat at one school before anyone else can accept and then agree to choose that school over all others.  This would then have to be repeated for several years.  Instead, the REAL lottery works to offer seats to all members of the in-boundary communities, meaning that this kind of thing really can't happen unless all other communities start shunning the school.[/quote]

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