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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the JR feeders are now just Deal and its elementary school feeders.  few oob spots.  it will probably in a pretty short time become much more unusual to go to JR but not live in the boundary.[/quote]

I don't think it will become more unusual. Hill parents of strong MS students tend to be unhappy with how admissions to Walls has essentially become a lottery for B+/A students. Pre-pandemic, if your 8th grader could stand out in applying with high DC-PARRC or PSAT 8/9 and the Walls admission tests (English and math) scores, on top of a high GPA, they'd get in. No longer.

The new reality is that admissions to Walls is a real crap shoot, even for those doing decidedly advanced middle school work (mainly at BASIS and in privates). From what I'm hearing, the result is that boundary cheating EotP to access J-R is becoming more a little more prevalent. Arguably, DCPS and the Mayor (mainly the latter) have brought the problem on themselves: the Walls admission systems was more of an academic meritocracy just four years ago, before Bowser single-handedly nixed the two admissions tests.[/quote]

It's really messed up that they gave lack of tests during COVID as the reason, never brought it back, and never even said anything about why. [/quote]

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