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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think all of you are wildly optimistic.  Why isn’t Stuart Hobson on the same level as Deal?  Cap hill gentrified and they are cranking out of of the best 3rd grade scores at the feeder schools and while SH has made great strides in the last TWO decades, they still aren’t performing at the love of hardy. Why aren’t Brent 5th graders going Jefferson?   I think a Shaw middle will be ok in 15-20 years but unless they make it a true magnet and full off tracked classes, it will go the way of Brookland middle? Another shiny fAilure to attract UMC familes.
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Capitol Hill has 4 DCPS middle schools: EH has 4 feeders, but SWS was added relatively recently and many of its students live IB for middle schools they prefer. SH has 3 feeders, JA practically speaking has 2.5 (Brent, Amidon, and Tyler traditional...Tyler bilingual has a right to MacFarland, Van Ness won't graduate 5th graders until 2021, and Thomson has a right to SWW), and then there's CHML. This means none of them have a large feeder population in absolute numbers and certainly not in terms of kids scoring 4s and 5s on PARCC.

The idea of having Cardozo, SWW, and Shaw all providing middle school mid-city is similar.

The six potential Cardozo feeders--Cleveland, Ross, SWW, Thompson, Seaton, and Garrison--have PARCC proficiency percentages of 
28/26
85/80
36/43 (this would likely be higher without the middle schoolers)
47/38
47/31
15/12

The potential Cardozo equivalent on Capitol Hill would be a single school fed by Tyler (25/25), SWS (73/72), Maury (58/61), Watkins (48/42), JO Wilson (30/26), and Miner (16/8)...ie, 1 JA feeder, 2 SH, and 3 EH. That hypothetical 6-feeder school (which is not going to happen because it makes no geographic sense and wouldn't fit in any of the buildings) would probably do better than any of the current middle schools on Capitol Hill. Mid-city families have a chance to get this by sending all six schools to Cardozo, and they'd get the added bonus of more space for ECE at Francis-Stevens.

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Nice posting, if only I knew the collection action formula to make that happen, until then many, not all,  of the kids from higher socio economic groups will continue to private and charters for middle to high school. I saw this happen at the end of 4th grade at my school. So since the achievement correlates significantly with socio economic group then those PARCC score that you show would decline, which would make this new middle school look, I don't know, the same as Capital Hill? [/quote]

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