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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't matter if SH or EH provide a good foundation, in terms of OP's full question. Because only a tiny percent of kids graduating from SH will go to Walls or Banneker. The rest feed to Eastern. What then?

I mean, to be frank, who cares if SH is a great school that offers a wonderful foundation, if your option after that is (1) a small chance of an application HS, (2) Eastern, (3) private, or (4) move.

This conversation always circles around to the fact that Eastern is not an acceptable option for the vast majority of Ward 6 parents (which is why they have just dismal IB numbers).[/quote]

This is not true?

This data, [url]https://edscape.dc.gov/node/1640846[/url], extensively discussed on here earlier this summer (search “data goldmine”), shows 10 each to Banneker, MT, and Duke, plus some to Walls, and only 28 to Eastern.

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I wasn't talking about where they go, I'm talking about options. And that link clearly illustrates those options.

10 kids to Banneker. Less than 10 to Walls. If those are your prime targets, are you comfortable that your kid will be one of that 11-19 kids? Especially with the weirdness of those applications now? There are no guarantees.

Then you look at the rest of the class. 10 to Duke Ellington -- okay, hope your kid likes piano lessons.

Then there are a ton of destinations with less than 10 kids. JR -- assume people move in bounds for it. CHEC. Cardozo. Wright.

And where else do 10 or more students from SH go? 28 to Eastern, as PP mentioned. And 30 to "Not in Audit." Those people moved out of the district or went to private.

This is your HS path in Ward 6. Are you excited?[/quote]

Some kids really do like music, or dance, or theater, you know. Going to Ellington is not some terrible fate.

If you look at the number of kids at SH for 8th grade, it's about 150, right? And the application high schools are, by design, for the top performing kids. Maybe like the top third of kids, just to make numbers round. So expecting SH to send 50 kids to the better high schools.

I see 12 to McKinley Tech, 10 to Banneker, and 10 to Ellington. So that's 32 right there. N less than 10 to Walls but it's probably a few. Then of the 30 not in audit, some probably did pretty well and got into decent privates, no reason to assume they're all doing badly. That year's data doesn't happen to include any 9th grade entrants to Latin or DCI, but there's no reason you couldn't have a good lottery number and do it. N less than 10 to Jackson Reed, but again, no reason to assume those kids aren't doing well.

I loathe the opaque and arbitrary selective school application process. Absolutely despise it. But SH's 9th grade outcomes are very much in line with expectations, and if I sent my kid there I would feel comfortable with it. No school can guarantee you a spot at Walls.[/quote]

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