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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except there ARE no middle schools in Ward 4. At all. [/quote]
That's overdramatic.  There are education campuses now, and MacFarland ramping up over the next two years.  It's not like you have zero options.[/quote]
Takoma EC serves grades 5-8, and it's just 1 mile away from Shepherd Elementary, a mere two blocks from the border of Shepherd Park.  Brightwood EC is 2 miles due south.

According to DCPS website, there are [b]7[/b] different education campuses in Ward 4 that serve middle school students.  Seems Ward 4 has no lack of school options.

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A PK-3 to 8 is a school but not a stand alone middle school. DCPS is moving everyone to the 6-8 model but is taking forever getting this done in Ward 4 (probably won't be done by the time today's PK3ers are in 6th). MacFarland in the southern-most part of the ward will open next year but only for students from DCPS dual language programs. And none of the upper Ward 4 schools will have rights to it. [/quote]

The Education Campus model has been pretty disastrous and I wish DCPS would hurry up with its promise to close them so that there are elementary schools and there are middle schools. In the EC model the middle school kids get shafted. The bulk of the school's resources go to serving the elementary children and the decimated middle school population gets the bare minimum in terms of electives and specials. Middle school should be when children are able to branch out a little and pursue some interests and join some clubs and teams, but the EC campuses just don't offer them. So long at the EC model persists, higher SES families in neighborhoods like Petworth and Brookland and Brightwood will look for an escape. [/quote]

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