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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Yet it's still preferable to just about any Hill choice - and certainly any of the cluster schools.  Therein lies the real angst - there is simply no one logical path which provides a high-quality education through public schools with no more than 40% Farms.  [/quote]

So would PPs say that around one-third FARMS is the cut-off for most middle-class Hill families?  Is that for an entire school, or a particular year/cohort?  It seems that only Brent and SWS are this threshold and perhaps Maury will get there soon.  We're in the Payne District, looking at the lottery for an almost-three-year-old and have been hoping that Two Rivers, Maury or Tyler Spanish Immersion might work out for us via the lotteries, at least for PreK+.  We'd rather not bounce around between schools and would like to stay in the city.  It's hard to get stats on Tyler SI because DCPS doesn't de-aggregate their test scores (you can only look up "Tyler" scores) or demographics.  Is Tyler SI majority high SES to their highest grade (3rd?).

It's hard to say if such a little kid will qualify as an advanced learner, but she certainly seems bright.  So you think that Two Rivers would be preferable to Peabody in the medium-term?  What about Maury?

I've heard that PreS3 at Payne is surprisingly good, maybe even PreK.  Neighbors involved at Payne say that the other kids there are more of a problem than the principal, teachers or Tools of the Mind curriculum.   We already regret buying in the Payne District pre-kids, seduced by an affordable house.  Even high SES neighbors with little kids seem to be planning to leave if they don't get into Inspired Teaching, YY, Two Rivers etc.

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