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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2015 data. LOL.
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Brent is less than 70% IB now, so I actually think it’s likely correct to say that 5th grade has very few IBers given that PK is obviously fully IB and the lower grades have very few OOBs students.[/quote]

Most of the OOB students at Brent live on Capitol Hill, many just a few blocks outside the school's boundary. BS that the 5th grade has very few IBers this year. It's mostly IBers again. It is correct to say that there are hardly any poor kids left at Brent, around 5% at risk.[/quote]

For Brent to be less than 70% IB, it is nearly mathematically impossible for it to be the case that 5th grade in “mostly” IB students given the demographics of the younger grades.[/quote]

Huh? This year's 5th grade at Brent is definitely mostly in boundary students. I know because I have a child in 5th grade. My child started at Brent with most of these kids, in the early childhood years, which were 100% in boundary.

[b]What's happening is that more OOB seats are opening in the lower grades with each passing year [/b]mainly because in boundary 3-bedroom houses have become so pricey, and inventory so low, that fewer young families are moving into the Brent district with every passing year.[/quote]

I was gonna call B.S. because conventional wisdom (read: DCUM) says that isn't so. I figured before I replied maybe I should check the published data. Darned if what you said doesn't track with the data. They have been making WL offers in elementary grades for a number of years. Now there is no way to know for sure how many seats they needed to fill based on the WL offers made, but it stands to reason that Brent didn't have to make 50 WL offers to fill only one spot for K. And any WL offers in K+ are OOB kids. Interestingly, over the past few years Maury has gone to the WL less frequently and for fewer WL kids than has Brent. Or even Ludlow for that matter.

Your theory about housing (scarcity, I agree, is the issue) seems logical to me. I think also that as SH has improved and more IB feeder kids stay, combined with Latin and Basis as MS and HS options, combined with application schools with enhanced reputations, that parents with perspective beyond just needs of 3 or 4 year olds might be thinking longer term and making school decisions with a longer time horizon than just "I need to be IB for Brent".

Very interesting trend and data. Thanks for pointing out and making me re-think what I "knew" from reading DCUM common wisdom.  [/quote]

I think its not because of housing within Brent, but because other schools, like LT, have become just as attractive. More housing/schools to pick from, not less.[/quote]

I have actually long thought that the LT IB is the most desirable on the Hill location-wise, especially if you take into account price. As H St has exploded, I think the cute residential area between it & Stanton Park is basically the ideal spot to live on the Hill. So the crazy rate of gentrification there doesn't surprise me at all. (And check the stats, the rate of gentrification is crazy. LT was T1 2 years ago and now is 9% less economically disadvantaged than Watkins, which I think lost T1 status like 3-4 years before that.)[/quote]

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