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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WOW!  I just checked the demographics on Shepherd Elementary School on its profile page at DCPS website.  It's 79% Black, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiple race,  4% White, and 0% Asian.  This doesn't seem diverse to me.  Also, only 32% of the students live in bounds.  So, it makes me wonder why the majority of the residents who live in the Shepherd Park area don't send their children to Shepherd.  Where do the other residents in that area send their children?

Oyster is truly a diverse school.  I just checked out their profile and their school's page as well.  I love the diversity that is represented there.   Are there any other elementary schools in DCPS that have an international environment  like Oyster?             [/quote]

The official Shepherd demographics don't reflect trends in the lower grades.  My kid's class is roughly 20% white, 12% biracial, and the remainder black/African American, and all families are in-boundary.  If this trend continues, it'll be increasingly difficult to get in OOB at the PK level.

Shepherd Park is a predominantly black middle/upper-middle class neighborhood, although there is a sizable observant Jewish population as well.  Most families have sent their kids to religious schools, charters, or secular privates in past years, although many new families moving in are choosing Shepherd Elementary.

As for an international presence, Shepherd had their annual International Festival a few weeks ago.  There were presentations from Russia, Germany, Panama, West African countries, West Indian countries, Puerto Rico, Tanzania, Japan, Ethiopia--and that's just from what I recall.  My kid's class has students who speak several different languages at home.  So there is definitely an international presence there.

Finally, in case it matters, one of us is biracial and the other is black but not African American (raised in Europe)--our experience thus far is that Shepherd's a warm, wonderful and welcoming little school to families of all backgrounds.

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