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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the last two posters, I’d say that when you’re comparing test scores... test results, you DO need to disaggregate as the kick ass data poster said, because when you do you see that LT white kids are out scoring other Cap Hill elementary schools white kids ant their black kids are scoring higher too. That was the point — one driven home very effectively by hard data. If you want to try say that parents won’t stay through 5th, that’s an opinion, but their 5 graders are testing very well. As a current LT parent with two kids attending, one in 4th, I can tell you we plan to stay as do many others and [b]I don’t attrition will be any worse than at other “top” cap hill elementary schools.[/b] [/quote]

You don't sound like you've been no the Hill for more than a decade, like we have (25 years and counting). Unfortunately, you're wrong. Attrition will be a good deal higher in the upper grades at LT than Maury, Brent and SWS for at least five years, probably ten.  Test scores are beside the point. Few UMC parents give a hoot about them - they care about demographics.  It's taken Brent 15 years to keep most of the ECE parents to 4th grade.  UMC families mostly leave these schools until the upper grades are majority UMC.[/quote]

I've been on the Hill for 20+ years.  IB families didn't start being interested in their neighborhood schools until around 2004 or so - 15 years ago.  It's now been years that Brent and Maury have kept most of their ECE parents through 4th grade.  It's going to happen soon for LT as well.  You sound like you are 'stuck in time' about the state of DCPS schools and families attendance.  And you need to [b]check your historical understanding[/b].[/quote]

New poster who must be "stuck in time" when I note that half a dozen kids won't be returning to my kid's original ECE cohort after 3rd grade, not at Ludlow...at Brent.  These families are moving out of the District or going private in this area mainly over Hill public school issues.  You still see an upper grades/ms/hs exodus almost everywhere you look in DCPS, just not one as large as five or ten years ago.

Perhaps I need to check my historical understanding while doing this headcount for 4th grade.  OK, counted again minus historical understanding.  Gosh, my calculations held up.[/quote]

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