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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Banneker is the only school on that list where you can make a reasonable case that white parents have avoided it because of the racial makeup.

The neighborhood high schools white kids avoid are the same ones with extremely low IB participation rates  overall. They aren't good schools, and It's crazy that some of these numbers aren't even lower. [/quote]

Banneker has increasing white attendance. I do agree that it gets dismissed because of racism.[/quote]

I don't know if it's quite racism, as much as that Banneker feels almost like an HBCU -- i.e. "safe space" for Black Excellence.

White kids go there, and it's an excellent school, but I don't know what to think about the white proportion increasing. What if it became half white, or majority white? [/quote]

Honestly unless the school has an ability/interest in keeping it a certain percentage AA I imagine it will become half white. There are so many more families staying in the city and simply not enough high performing schools.[/quote]

Is the trend that Banneker is headed towards 30-40% white to match the city? The SY23/24 stats showed that the Banneker white population increased, but that class was also larger than previous years by a lot and it's still only 5% or so. Did it go up again in SY24-25? If so, guess the secret is out. We were very impressed in the open house but expect there to be a lot of competition this year. [/quote]

Just so you know, there was a lot of competition last year as well.  We know several high performing kids who my child graduated with who didn't get in to Banneker.  My son didn't either, but his grades were middling.[/quote]

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