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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dozens of upper middle class families of all colors send their children to Stuart Hobson, and those children go on to myriad high schools and do very well in life.  So yes, it's an option worth a closer look if you live on the Hill.  But, the OOB availability will only get tougher as more neighborhood families (and those in feeder elementary schools - Watkins, LT, JO Wilson) choose the school.  As an LT parent, I see more affluent kids in the upper grades, even transfers from other Hill schools, because parents want the option of Stuart Hobson.  Of course they may end up elsewhere, but this is a good sign for SH in the coming 2-3 years. [/quote]

Interesting.  I know of a few families that live within 3 blocks of the school and chose to send dc across the city to another middle school rather than let dc walk 5 mins to SH.[/quote]

Based on the recent numbers, I think the rising Hill MS families over the next 2 to 5 years are going to have much different choices than the current MS families. Latin is already really hard to get into and Basis is getting harder. Yes, some will move or go private but the next few years should be interesting. [/quote]

I don't see much different choices in under a decade, not with the strongest Hill DCPS ES shut out of Hobson - Brent, Maury and SWS.  It will be more like 10 years before either Ludlow or Watkins will be feeding mostly high SES kids to SH.  Neither BASIS nor Latin has firm plans to open a second campus.  The next few years will almost certainly be little different than the last few where MS goes.  You'll see a slow, steady uptick in the number of white and high SES families at Hobson (breaking into the 20s, possibly low 30s) and that's about it.

Been on the Hill since the 90s, have ES age kids in a DCPS and can't share your optimism, not by a long shot.[/quote]

this is the worst kind of biased attitudes towards schools -- you assume a school needs affluent white kids to succeed.  Not everyone buys into your definition of success.

Do everyone a favor and go/stay in the charter/private/move camp.  You won't be missed.[/quote]

No, it's an attitude rooted in a large corpus of academic research on how to construct high-performing public middle and high schools. When most of the kids are high SES, all boats rise with the tide.  When most kids are low SES and minority, you get a Banneker.  That fabulous application DC public HS where average SAT scores barely clear the national average.  I'm not white and certainly didn't grow up affluent (qualified for free lunch through middle school), but I was extremely fortunate to attend a middle school, and high school, where most classmates were high SES.[b] I graduated from MIT[/b].  [/quote]

^^ That makes you an education expert too or just a self-important asshole?[/quote]

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