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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ATS to Barcroft. Barcroft loses almost as many kids to choice school transfers as it has in the neighborhood. Alcova to Fleet. Divide Bacroft between Randolph and Barrett. Recapture the choice kids you are losing to those schools anyway!  Also, encourages S Arl students (and disadvantaged families) to take advantage of ATS.[/quote]

No room at Randolph for all the low income kids at Barcroft - they're not going to enter the lottery for ATS. And would prob give Randolph a farms rate higher than carlin springs. [/quote]

Can't send half of Barcroft to Barrett either - you will upset the balance that exists at Barrett and keeps UMC families at the school. Don't want to undo 15 years of community buy-in and send Barrett parents scrambling for option schools as they did in the past before visionary former principal convinced Arlington Forest families that their kids would turn out fine. Barrett is one of the few high-FARMS schools that UMC families are happy with. It has a huge number of walkers and fairly balanced ethnic/racial/SES demographics. Not something to upset by playing the "where should we move ATS" game.[/quote]

Tell me more about Barrett. It's got nearly identical farms rate as Barcroft (60%). Does it really have buy in from SFH, Morris than Barcroft? What's different there, apart from the calendar?[/quote]

I’m not the previous poster, but Barrett is not diverse.  It’s all Hispanic, plus a minority of Arlington Forest families.
And yes, that a good question to ask, because there is a lot of lamenting about Barcroft, but Barrett is no better in its demographics.
PTA participation and parent participation is limited, and I don’t see SES (or ethnic) diversity.

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Barrett has 60% FARMS which is more diverse than a school that is 80% FARMS or 4% FARMS.

Barrett is 50% Hispanic, 28% White, 10% Black, which is more diverse than schools that are 70+% White or Hispanic. Not all the families that live in SFHs in Arlington Forest are white (not all the minority students at Barrett receive free lunch). Yes, some families choose Key/ATS/Campbell but the neighborhood is absolutely crawling with kids and most attend Barrett. [/quote]

So this suggests to me that Barcroft's calendar is a HUGE deterrent for many families. Only about 100 students opt out of Barrett, while close to 300 so so at Barcroft. They have similar demographics, and similar neighborhood profiles. The major difference is the CALENDAR. [/quote]

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