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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH and 3 of his colleagues have all had to make this choice in the past year. All have or will have multiple kids; oldest is 4.5. Very highly educated but only decently paid profession means that school zones (for ES + MS) are the chief driver of location selection. 3 went with L-T and 1 went with Brent. Just one data point.[/quote]

Interesting. I know many who left ludlow for other schools after pk. Main objection was lots of tv time. Two others I know moved so their kids could attend Maury. [/quote]

We've owned a house in the Ludlow-Taylor District for 15 years, a couple blocks from the school.  None of our longtime professional friends or neighbors enrolled there after K until the new (male) principal arrived several years ago.  Everybody we know with little kid went private, charter, or lotteried into SWS, Maury, Brent or Tyler Spanish Immersion under Principle Cobbs and her successor, who lasted just two school years.  The parents of 3, 4 and 5 year-olds around us do seem to be planning to stay at Ludlow into the upper grades. [b]The program is obviously on the up and up, but I'm not buying that most IB parents would still choose it over Maury, SWS or Brent for the upper grades.  It's still very hard for Ludlow to compete with schools whose PTAs raise six figures, other than Watkins.  In 3 or 4 years, things surely will be different.  [/b]

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I live IB for L-T and know almost no one who plans to lottery for Brent or Maury for the upper grades once they've started at L-T.  I have no doubt this used to happen in the past, but whereas as recently as 2015-2016, a non-trivial number of OOBers got in for PK3 and PK4 and there were 5 / 6 / 10 lottery spots for K / 1 / 2 and then 25 / 31 / 2 additional WL offers, last year there were no OOBers who got in for PK3 or 4 (and there was an IB WL) and there were 3 / 3 / 0 lottery spots for K / 1 / 2 with 0 / 4 / 0 WL offers. It's just a totally different school in the lower grades in terms of where the kids are coming from and to what degree they're staying.

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